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Kanye West zooms to #1 on this week's HITS Top 50 chart with his seven-song Ye (G.O.O.D./Def Jam), scoring 210k+ all in.

This weighty chart bow follows a newsy phase of Wyoming listening parties, scandalous soundbites and full-on biz buzz. We've also learned that Kanye has become the seventh-ranked artist ever for first-week streams from a single album and had the eighth-biggest first week in total streams.

Ye’s seven tracks amassed a total of 180m on-demand streams in its debut week, and reached #1 in 83 countries on Apple Music.

What about the rest of the chart, you ask? Keep your damn pants on.

Republic's Post Malone falls just short of another six-figure week with 99k, good for #2 for the platinum beerbongs and bentleys.

The new dispatch from Loma Vista/Concord's goth-rock conceptualists Ghost bows at #3 with 60k, while Luke Combs has a deluxe bump (jumping #42-4 and doing 53k) with the refurbished This One's for You Too (River House/Columbia Nashville), becoming the chart's biggest gainer by a mile.

Father John Misty has the only other non-Kanye debut in the Top 20, as his Sub Pop collection God's Favorite Customer makes hipsters swoon to the tune of nearly 26k, good for #17.

222/Interscope's Maroon 5 returns with a #13 perch, thanks to exploding single "Girls Like You." UMG, with Kanye and five other titles in the Top 10, has a mighty 64% marketshare; WMG takes 21%, Sony 14% and assorted indies 1%.

You can dig into the whole chart here.

New this week: fresh offerings from RCA's Dave Matthews Band, G.O.O.D./Def Jam's Kids See Ghosts (co-crafted by Kid Cudi and Kanye), Freebandz/Epic's Future-driven Superfly ST, Sugarland (Big Machine) and Dierks Bentley (Capitol Nashville), among others.

We wish you a restful weekend. We probably shouldn't have started on the edibles so early, but hey, it's 4:20 somewhere.

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