Kanye WestLove him or hate him, there's no denying Kanye West's success and thanks to his latest album, The Life Of Pablo, the rapper has just tied late iconic singer Ray Charles' total for songs to feature on the Billboard Top 100.
As Billboard reports, eight songs from Yeezy's latest record (which came in at #1 on the Albums Chart) debuted this week, pushing his total number of entries to 75 and subsequently having the eighth-most Hot 100 entries of all time.
The musicians' connection goes back to West's mega-hit Gold Digger which samples Charles' I Got A Woman, which held the #1 Hot 100 spot for ten straight weeks in 2005.
Only ahead of West and Charles' record are Chris Brown with 78 entries, Jay Z (83), James Brown (91), Drake (107), Elvis Presley (108), Lil Wayne (129) and um…the Glee cast (207). Yup.
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The new batch of West's songs have seen him overtake The Beatles and Aretha Franklin, as well as Taylor Swift, who the hip hop artist has some very public history with.
After the controversial release of his track Famous (which he again references the pop star), West opened up about the famous 2009 VMA ceremony during a concert in the Philippines earlier this week, in which he interrupted Swift's acceptance speech to dismiss her win, calling it "the beginning of the end of my life".
He claimed that pop artist Lady Gaga pulled out of a planned joint-concert with West just a day after the incident.
"So if I get in trouble for saying the truth, what's being said the rest of the time?" West said.
"And I had to fight every day for the rest of my life with the whole world turned against me for saying out loud what everyone else felt."
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