{"id":377066,"date":"2026-04-06T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:46:08","slug":"yes-bully-debuts-at-no-2-on-the-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377066\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye’s ‘Bully’ Debuts at No.2 on the Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter years of lawsuits and controversy, it appears there is still very much an audience for Ye \u2014 or, at least, his music. Bully<\/a>, Kanye\u2019s long-delayed new album, debuted at Number Two<\/a> on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0200, suggesting listeners are, by and large, willing to accept the controversial musician back into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

\n\tBully debuted behind BTS\u2019 Arirang, which continues its chart dominance after debuting last week at No. 1, with 187,000 equivalent album units earned in the most recent week of tracking. Ye wasn\u2019t far behind with 152,000 equivalent units moved. Bully finds Ye resurrecting many of the sounds he\u2019s become known for throughout his career, even down to the finely curated soul samples. Over the past several weeks, he\u2019s announced a series of high-profile concert performances, including a three-night run at London\u2019s Wireless Festival this summer, a move that has already caused some sponsors to back out.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\n\tThis past week, in Los Angeles, Ye performed two sold-out nights at SoFi Stadium,<\/a> drawing tens of thousands of fans per show. At one point, taking in the scale of the crowd, he paused to declare: \u201cThat\u2019s what 80,000 people sound like\u2026 They said I\u2019d never be back in the States. Two sold-out concerts, baby!\u201d Indeed, Ye has been something of an outcast in the mainstream entertainment industry since a series of antisemitic and racist tirades in 2022, culminating in the release of a swastika T-shirt via his Yeezy brand. Ye has since made a number of apologies and, in January, in an interview with Vanity Fair, pointed to complications both with his mental health and a car accident that happened early in his career as the source of his past behavior.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Bully, an overall safe offering from Ye, he appears to be angling for a return to the spotlight. If the first week\u2019s numbers are any indication, it could possibly work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of lawsuits and controversy, it appears there is still very much an audience for Ye \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,18221,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-377066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-kanye-west","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377066","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=377066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}