Kanye West has made music history in America - reaching the top of charts through streaming. 'Life of Pablo' has made it to number one in the album chart - without being available for sale on CD, vinyl or iTunes.
Songs off the album have been streamed 99 million times - which the Billboard 200 chart says is the equivalent of selling 94-thousand copies in the last week.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thank you to everybody who made The Life of Pablo the number 1 album in the world!!!</p>— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/718676669221965824">April 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I’m so happy that you guys like the music… I’m working on the tour designs now…</p>— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/718677322635866114">April 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I also wanted to point out that it’s the first album to go number 1 off of streaming!!!</p>— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/718677450083999744">April 9, 2016</a></blockquote>
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