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Kanye West dethroned Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” from the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hоt 100

Entertainment — 03/12/2024

Despite being entangled in controversy, Kanye West’s talent cannot be denied when he usurped Beyoncé from No.1 on the Billboard Hоt 100

With his song “Carnival,” Kanye West has created history by unseating Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” from the top place on the Billboard Hоt 100.

Playboi Carti and Rich The Kid are also featured on the song, which is a clip off Ye’s Vultures 1 album with Ty Dolla $ign. After peaking at No. 1, it set two new records for the Chicagoan.

The Yeezy boss not only has the longest run of No. 1 songs among rappers in the history of the chart—more than 20 years—after 2003’s “Slow Jamz” peaked at number one, but he is also the first rapper in history to top the Hоt 100 in three separate decades (the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s).

The album by Ye and Ty debuted in February and spent the first two weeks of its existence at the top of the Billboard 200. Originally scheduled to release on March 8, exactly one month later, the second installment, Vultures 2, has not yet gone live.

Kanye has said that he might instead price it for $20 online, so when it does drop, it might not be accessible on streaming sites.

Earlier this month, Ye announced on social media to a fan account called YeFanatics that he has been “talking with the team” about the distribution strategy and is investigating several options. This sparked the notion to distribute it independently of streams.

“Yeezy.com is where we sell albums. He wrote, “I have 20 million Instagram followers,” in a text message. “If five percent of my fans purchаse an album, that’s one million copies sold. That exceeds the biggest album from the previous year by 300k.

“We know it’s doable because on Suρer Bowl Sunday, we sold one million products on Yeezy.com. What do you think about us selling the album exclusively digitally and not streaming it?

The previously mentioned account posted a text exchange in which Ty stated, “It’s time to figure out the unlock on how to bring the music straight to our audience and cut out the middle man.” Ty also seemed to be in favor of the concept.