{"id":376902,"date":"2026-04-05T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376902\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:22:08","slug":"kanye-wests-bully-debuts-at-no-2-on-chart-behind-bts-arirang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/376902\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West’s ‘Bully’ Debuts at No. 2 on Chart Behind BTS’ ‘Arirang’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a> has outpaced Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West<\/a>, to land a second week atop the Billboard 200<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe K-pop group\u2019s latest album \u201cArirang\u201d holds steady at No. 1 on the albums chart with 187,000 equivalent album units, down 71% from its opening week with 641,000. Last week, \u201cArirang\u201d became BTS\u2019 seventh No. 1 album and scored the biggest sales week for an album by a group in over a decade. With its second week at No. 1, \u201cArirang\u201d has now spent the longest period atop the charts out of all of the group\u2019s previous leaders, which each spent one week at the summit.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Ye\u2019s \u201cBully\u201d enters the chart at No. 2, becoming his 14th album to hit the top 10. It debuts with 152,000 equivalent album units, with album sales making up for 56,000 of that total. It\u2019s a surprisingly strong performance considering his hate speech over the past few years. Still, it does end his nearly career-long string of No. 1 solo albums as his 2004 debut, \u201cThe College Dropout,\u201d peaked at No. 2. (\u201cDonda 2,\u201d his last solo album, was deemed ineligible to chart in accordance with Billboard\u2019s bundling guidelines.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBully,\u201d which was released on March 28 after numerous delays, preempted a pair of sold-out concerts<\/a> at Los Angeles\u2019 SoFi Stadium earlier this week, where the rapper performed a handful of \u201cBully\u201d songs as well as past hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere on the chart, Melanie Martinez bowed at No. 3 with \u201cHades,\u201d which earned 84,000 equivalent album units to become her fourth project to crack the top 10. Morgan Wallen\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m the Problem\u201d dips from No. 3 to 4 on the chart, while Yeat debuts at No. 5 with \u201cADL.\u201d Luke Combs\u2019 \u201cThe Way I Am\u201d lands at No. 6, followed by Olivia Dean\u2019s \u201cThe Art of Loving,\u201d Don Toliver\u2019s \u201cOctane,\u201d Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cDeb\u00ed Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos\u201d and Harry Styles \u201cKiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS has outpaced Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, to land a second week atop the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2644,1845,146,85,46,18221,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-376902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-billboard-200","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kanye-west","14":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}