Ty Dolla $ign has roasted Apple Music for what he claims is lackluster promotion of Vultures 1, his joint album with Kanye West.
The rapper took to Ye’s Instagram Stories on Saturday (March 2) to take the mega-platform to task. In the story, he can be seen scrolling through the “top shelf” of Apple Music, and the album is nowhere to be found.
AD LOADING...
“We never had anything in the new music,” he continued. “And we never had best new songs.”
But, he noted, Vultures 1 did indeed make it onto the Apple Music charts, pointing out that one of the songs from the album was on the Top Songs chart.
Ty Dolla $ign calls out Apple Music for failing to promote "Vultures 1" on platform pic.twitter.com/qi2fAoPXRE
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) March 3, 2024
Part of the reason Apple Music may not be promoting Vultures 1 as well as Ty Dolla $ign may want them to is because it had been removed from various platforms.
Since its release on February 10, Vultures 1 has encountered several issues, with the track “Good (Don’t Die)” being removed from Spotify.
AD LOADING...
The entire album was also temporarily removed from Apple Music on February 15 after a complaint was raised by its distributor.
Vultures 1 was initially distributed by FUGA but the company then said in a statement to Billboard that “a long-standing FUGA client delivered the album Vultures 1 through the platform’s automated processes, violating our service agreement.”
AD LOADING...
The album was then pulled from streaming before a new distribution agreement was reached with Label Engine, who had also managed the release of the singles “Vultures” and “Talking/Once Again.”
As of this past week, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign have held onto their place atop the Billboard 200, denying Yeat his first No. 1 album.
AD LOADING...
Vultures 1 and 2093 had been locked in a tight sales race leading up to this week’s chart, with Yeat projected to narrowly outsell Ye and Ty by less than 200 units.
AD LOADING...
But according to official figures from Billboard, the ¥$ duo has emerged victorious as Vultures 1 spends a second week at No. 1 thanks to an additional 75,000 album-equivalent units.
The collaborative project debuted atop the chart last week after opening with almost double that figure, despite encountering various distribution and sampling issues following its February 10 release.
2093, meanwhile, comes in at No. 2 with 70,000 equivalent album units in its first week, which marks both the highest-charting effort and largest sales tally of Yeat’s career.
The eagerly-anticipated album arrived on February 16 and initially contained 22 songs, including collaborations with Hip Hop heavyweights Lil Wayne and Future.
AD LOADING...
A day later, a deluxe edition called 2093 (P2) was released with two bonus tracks, one of which features Drake.
Then, on February 21, another version arrived called 2093 (P3), featuring four bonus tracks that were only available to download on Yeat’s webstore.
