![]() 1 album and the best-selling album are one and the same, even after Billboard factors in all this data. Straight-up album sales are still the single biggest factor in the chart, and most weeks, the No. The Billboard 200 is now a “multi-metric” consumption chart that factors in streams and track sales, in addition to regular album sales, when determining the industry’s biggest albums. 1 has to do with the methodology change Billboard and data-provider Nielsen put into effect on the album chart 16 months ago. The reason Pablo is instead sitting pretty at No. ![]() 1, while West’s latest would place at No. And if Billboard still ranked its chart based on which albums sold the most, Chris Stapleton’s nearly year-old album Traveller, fueled by a sweep of last week’s Academy of Country Music awards, would be spending its third cumulative week at No. ![]() Actually, five albums sold more copies than Pablo last week. 1s not to be America’s best- selling album. Basically, Ye’s entire studio output since his 2005 sophomore album, Late Registration, has rung the bell on the Billboard 200, and Pablo maintains the streak. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 - his seventh straight, if you include Watch the Throne, his best-selling 2011 collaboration with Jay Z. The Life of Pablo, Ye’s seventh studio album - a project given a splashy release two months ago, then pulled and tinkered with by its creator before being deemed market-ready - is finally No. On Sunday, Billboard made official what chart-watchers had been expecting since February: West has another chart-topper. That might be open for debate - but this week, he achieved an inarguable chart milestone that just might represent the future of hit albums, ones that might not look like albums at all. Kanye West often boasts that he is making the music of the future.
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