The Swift-West feud continues — at the very least with regards to music. Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Division album is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the 14th time, whereas Kanye “Ye” West‘s Vultures 2 is ranked No. 2 on the chart. Billboard reported the rankings on Sunday, August 11.
TTPD was launched earlier this yr as a double album, shortly turning into one in all Taylor’s most profitable albums of all time. The “Karma” hitmaker, 34, introduced that she was releasing the brand new music after profitable the Grammy Award for Finest Pop Vocal Album in February.
“I need to say ‘thanks’ to the followers by telling you a secret that I’ve been maintaining from you for the previous two years,” Taylor mentioned whereas accepting her award, earlier than including, “Which is that my model new album comes out April nineteenth. It’s known as The Tortured Poets Division.”
On prime of her newest album, Taylor has been performing world wide for her Eras Tour since mid-2023. As for Ye, 47, the rapper’s Vultures 2 was in collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign.
Kanye West breaks his streak of 11 consecutive #1 albums on the Billboard 200 with ‘VULTURES 2.’
It debuts at #2 behind Taylor Swift’s ‘THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT.’ pic.twitter.com/d5u3jre1JR
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 11, 2024
Taylor and Ye have been in an icy feud since 2009 when the “Stronger” artist interrupted her Video Music Awards acceptance speech after profitable Finest Feminine Video. In that second, Ye took the microphone from Taylor and mentioned that Beyoncé launched the most effective albums “of all time.” Upon giving the mic again to Taylor, she fell silent. Afterward, Bey, 42, invited Taylor to complete her acceptance speech on stage.
Regardless of the cruel second, Taylor and Ye patched issues up and have become buddies a number of years later. Nonetheless, their alliance shortly changed into a rivalry after Ye launched his single “Well-known,” which encompasses a dig at Taylor: “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse / Why? I made that b**ch well-known.”
Ye’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, launched recordings of a telephone name between Ye and Taylor, wherein the “Love Story” artist was heard agreeing with a portion of that lyric. Since then, Ye and Taylor have been at odds.
Final yr, Taylor introduced up the feud throughout her December 2023 TIME cowl story.
“You have got a completely manufactured body job, in an illegally recorded telephone name, which Kim Kardashian edited, after which put out to say to everybody that I used to be a liar,” Taylor claimed in her interview with the outlet. “That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than.”
