*Kanye West’s seven debuts on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this week — all from new album “Ye” – has moved him ahead of Aretha Franklin for the fifth-highest total of top 40 hits on the chart, according to Billboard.
West now has 81 top 40 hits, while the Queen of Soul has 80.
West’s “Ye haul, on the chart dated June 16, includes two debuts in the top 10. “Yikes” opens at No. 7, while “All Mine” starts at No. 9. The pair gives West his 25th and 26th top 10 hits on the list, and first as a lead artist since “All Day,” featuring Theophilus London, Allan Kingdom and Paul McCartney reached No. 6 in 2015.
He also scores with “Ghost Town” (No. 11) and “Wouldn’t Leave” (No. 14), both of which feature PARTYNEXTDOOR, “Violent Crimes” (No. 16), “I Thought About Killing You” (No. 17) and “No Mistakes” (No. 21).
Collectively, the seven tunes’ debuts push West to 81 top 40 hits on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, passing Franklin’s career sum of 80. West now trails only these four acts for the most visits to the chart’s top 40: Drake (156), Lil Wayne (97), JAY-Z (96) and James Brown (91).
Meanwhile, the “Ye” album debuts at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts with 208,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 7, according to Nielsen Music.
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