Kanye West‘s seventh solo album, The Life of Pablo, was one of the Chicago superstar’s more ambitious outings given the project’s rollout method and the various tweaks made to it since its initial release. West can now boast that the project is officially certified platinum — the first streaming-only album to earn that distinction.
TLOP was released as a TIDAL exclusive in February 2016 and became a bit of a work in progress for West after he continued to edit the final tracklist and mixes of the songs. The album was made available to TIDAL’s streaming competitors on April 1 of the same year, despite West’s previous insistence that it would stay exclusive.
Tuesday’s announcement that the RIAA certified the record platinum comes with the news that the album has been streamed more than 3 billion times across all platforms, according to a Def Jam press release.
The album was also the first streaming-only project to hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Wasn’t this sold on vinyl?
Yeah it was, not initially, but was eventually released on vinyl
I dont give a fuck ..that new krayzie and bizzy bone album is coming soon..the new single out already..no one flipping like bizzy ..its fire for realz…grown ghetto gospel music..fuck all that wanna be but cant be (coming home ft stephen marley
Worst album ever, Kardashian Kurse lives
MF aint even a finished album…shit crazy to me. Ye aint even gotta finished shit and go platinum
I love that TLOP album.
You can also buy it off his website, so it’s not streaming only. 3 billion streams though, well done sir
so apparently it’s not history. fucking idiots.
the sales on his website probably not tracked by soundscan tho
Makes sense. As I said before, whether or not it was streaming only, 3 billion is insane.
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You fuckboys at DX deleting comments again? More than 3 Billion streams, only a complete Idiot would believe this. The Click-Farms overseas are working well I see. This is fake news, nothing else folks.
Literally the worst album of 2016. So many ruined songs and ppl still love it. It just amazes me.
#TLOP was much better then J Cole last boring release. Yet he took shots a Yeezy on that False Prophets track lol