Taylor Swift scored another week at No. 1 and a victory over Kanye West in the process. Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department celebrates its 14th week atop the Billboard 200 album chart, Billboard reported on Sunday, August 11.
TTPD moved another 142,000 equivalent album units to retain the top spot on the chart dated August 17. West, 47, has to settle for second place on the new Billboard 200. His latest venture with Ty Dolla $ign , Vultures 2 , debuts at No.
2 on the chart with 107,000 equivalent album units. It’s Ye’s 13th album to reach the top two, though a rare misstep for the rapper, who has scored 11 No. 1s to date.
(Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 1 topped the chart in February.) Of course, there has long been bad blood between Swift, 34, and West, who name-dropped both Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce , on his new record. “I twist my Taylor spliffs tight at the end like Travis Kelce,” West raps on the song “Lifestyle (Demo),” making a play on Swift’s first name and Kelce’s NFL position.
Neither Swift nor Kelce have acknowledged the West’s reference publicly, but Kelce’s dad, Ed Kelce , was not pleased by the mention. “Mental illness on full display,” Ed wrote via Facebook on Thursday, August 8, reposting a Daily Mail article about the lyric. Swift and West’s history with one another goes back to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where West infamously interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video and declared that Bey.