Unlicensed Release, Kanye West's DONDA Album Successfully Tops Music Charts

Kanye West (YouTube screenshot)

JAKARTA - Kanye West's DONDA album was released on Sunday, August 29. In an instant, the album broke records on Apple Music where it ranked first in over 100 countries.

DONDA contains 27 new tracks including collaborations with musicians such as JAY-Z, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Lil Baby, Kid Cudi, Pusha T, and others.

24 hours after release, the entire music chart is dominated by songs from DONDA. As a result, this album became the most listened to release of 2021.

This achievement beats Olivia Rodrigo's album Sour, which was released last May.

Unfortunately, Kanye West claims the release of this album did not pass his approval. On his Instagram account, Kanye said, "Universal released an album without my permission."

Kanye claims record label Universal did not discuss it with him. In addition, the track titled Jail Pt. 2 was also marked not to be released without mentioning the reason.

Universal chose not to respond to Kanye West's allegations. Song Jail Pt. The 2 mentioned are also available and go to the DONDA album.

The word DONDA itself is the name of Kanye's mother who died in 2007 at the age of 58 years. This 10th album is Kanye's latest release after failing to win the United States Presidential Election.