Taylor Swift and Kanye west albums

Kanye West’s impressive Billboard streak is on the verge of being broken, with Taylor Swift predicted to take the No. 1 spot and bring an end to West’s run of 11 consecutive chart-topping albums, in a move that seems almost cosmically ironic.

Taylor Swift’s album TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT leads the pack with 141,000 units sold this week. Outpacing Ye and Ty Dolla Sign’s Vultures 2, which is expected to debut with 83,000 units.

Karma seems to be at play, as Taylor Swift is expected to end Kanye West’s Billboard reign. A move that comes full circle after their infamous encounter at the 2009 MTV Awards.

Following Kanye West’s infamous interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video, claiming Beyoncé’s video was superior, the two have had a tumultuous relationship marked by periods of reconciliation and controversy. Including Swift presenting West with the Video Vanguard Award in 2015 and the dispute over West’s use of Swift’s name in his song ‘Famous’.

Vultures 2, the latest album from Kanye West, may be removed from streaming services in the near future due to a reported dispute with Atlantic Records, as West hinted in his Instagram Story, suggesting that the album’s availability is contingent on a payment being made.

Kanye West posted a screenshot of a text conversation with his manager, John Monopoly, who shares the news that Julie Greenwald has been fired as chairman of Atlanta Music Group. Her successor is refusing to grant West’s team extra time to settle payments related to Vultures 1 and 2.

According to the text conversation, Atlantic Records will take down both Vultures 1 and 2 if the matter isn’t resolved immediately. Leading Kanye West to captioning, ‘This is what they do to independent artists’. Kanye deleted his account moments after he made the post.