Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign's 'Vultures 2' First-Week Sales Projections Are Here

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s long-delayedVultures 2 is finally here, and it seems like it’s had a good first week of sales — though not good enough to net West a 12th number one album.

According to Chart Data, the duo’s new release is projected to move around 68,000 album-equivalent units in the U.S. in its debut week. That would put it at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.

This means that Ye may miss out on hitting the top of the chart in his release week, something that has happened only twice before in his entire career.

Both his 2004 debut The College Dropout and his 2018 Kid Cudi collaboration Kids See Ghostsentered the album chart at number two.

Now that Vultures 2 is here, West and Ty will be taking their ‘Vultures Listening Experience’ show on the road — specifically, to Korea.

In June, following West’s appearance at an event in Tokyo, reports popped up speculating that the controversial rapper and producer would soon be doing a show in nearby South Korea.

Now that’s been confirmed, as Ty shared in early July that the ‘Vultures’ event will be coming to Korea on August 23. No venue was named in the announcement.

The ‘Vultures Listening Experience,’ where the two artists play music from their Vultures collaborative album in front of an audience, has had a rocky road.

In March, the duo announced shows in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, North Carolina and Florida.

But on March 30, all those listings were removed from Ye’s Ticketmaster page, with some of the venues he was set to appear at announcing that they will no longer be hosting the event.

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Whereas the PPG Paints Arena (Pittsburgh), Capital One Arena (Washington, DC), Spectrum Center (Charlotte) and Bridgestone Arena (Nashville) removed the event from their websites, the Amalie Arena in Tampa and Amerant Bank Arena in Fort Lauderdale shared messages about the cancellation.

“We regret to report that due to the time constraints for Ye and Ty Dolla $ign to curate production and meet logistic requirements, the upcoming dates for the VULTURES 1&2 listening experience will need to be revisited at a later date,” both venues posted.

The Charlotte website Clture reported that a Spectrum Center representative told them the Charlotte show was “officially” no longer happening.