![]() Returning songs in the top 10 included the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” at No. 9 to become her fourth song to join the top ranks. No songs debuted in the top 10, but Doja Cat’s “Need to Know” did crack it for the first time, rising two spots to No. On the Hot 100, in its second week, Adele’s “Easy on Me” triumphed by accumulating 31.8 million streams and racking up 61.5 million radio audience impressions, according to Billboard and MRC Data. The Young Thug album slipped six spots after debuting as last week’s chart topper. Other returning albums included hits by Doja Cat, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Olivia Rodrigo, Moneybagg Yo and Young Thug at Nos. Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” rose ever-so-slightly in consumption - by 1% - yet that as good enough to boost the project from No. 2 after coming out in March.ĭrake returned to the top with 74,000 equivalent album units, down from the week before, but still good enough for No. Her previous effort, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” debuted at No. But given both artists’ prickliness toward the Recording Academy, and the Grammys’ recent trending toward more acclaimed singer-songwriter albums - Kacey Musgraves, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift are the three most recent album of the year winners - neither is a shoo-in.It was Del Rey’s second album release in this unusually productive year. That hasn’t necessarily hurt Drake before: He landed album of the year nods for both Views and Scorpion, despite both receiving similarly middling marks. Both received mixed reviews from critics the review-aggregating site Metacritic rates Donda a 53 out of 100 and Certified Lover Boy a 61, mediocre scores for album of the year contenders. The question of whether the two albums are among the year’s best is less straightforward. If it’s a goal of the Grammys to reflect the works that most mattered to popular music over the prior year, it would be hard to imagine the albums being ignored. Between them, they posted the two best first-week numbers of 2021. The two albums, released over back-to-back weeks this summer, dominated discussion with their bombastic promotional campaigns and lengthy, guest-filled tracklists - not to mention Drake and West’s own long-simmering tensions, which have built up over five years of subliminal digs, warring allies and this-town-ain’t-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us egos. Kanye West Has Officially Changed His Name to 'Ye'īoth artists’ longtime distaste for the Grammys could come to a head with the 2022 nominations, for which West’s Donda and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy are both eligible. ![]() Later protests would be even more public: In 2015, West nearly crashed the Grammy stage to protest Beck’s album of the year win over Beyoncé’s self-titled set, and in 2020, he shared a video on Twitter of him (apparently) urinating on a Grammy award in the toilet. ![]() At a 2014 concert, after being denied a nod in the category for Yeezus, West bemoaned he’d “never won a Grammy against a white artist” (that claim was not true by 2014, he had won a Grammy against one or more white artists six times). “I guess we’ll never know.”īut while West won four best rap album trophies between 20, album of the year eluded him. “Everyone wanted to know what I’d do if I didn’t win,” he said at the 2005 Grammys during his sigh-of-relief acceptance speech for best rap album (for debut The College Dropout). West’s longtime irascibility toward awards shows was inextricable from his rise to superstardom in the mid-2000s, and his furious reactions to losses and snubs routinely made headlines. ![]() The two rap figures who have the most volatile relationship with the academy also happen to be arguably the two biggest names in the genre, as well as the artists behind two of the biggest and most-buzzed-about albums of 2021: Kanye West and Drake. 6 Things We Learned From Nas & Hit-Boy's Grammy Museum Conversation
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