The artwork for Graduation wasn't rushed, it took multiple weeks to actually build out. Ye kept sending fresh ideas and references to Takashi Murakami's team as the piece developed.
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Kanye West's third studio album, Graduation, dropped on September 11, 2007, via Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella, closing out his education-themed trilogy after The College Dropout and Late Registration.
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Ye’s ‘Graduation’ is currently receiving almost DOUBLE the daily Spotify streams of ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’‼️🤯 ▪️Graduation — 5.18M/day ▪️MBDTF — 2.72M/day
That 19-year-old album Graduation by Ye still holds the record for highest daily streams on Spotify among all albums released prior to 2010 and it is pulling in around 4.8 million streams every single day
ICEMAN just took the top spot on Spotify with 5.9 million daily streams, edging out Graduation at 5.0M. OCTANE sits third with 4.6M, followed by Views at 4.2M and Take Care rounding out the list with 3.9M. That ranking…
That daily Spotify run for Ye's Graduation is wild, pulling in around 5.6 million streams every single day. It's nearly double what any other album by him gets tbh
Ye's Graduation just hit 448 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. That is over eight years tbh
That Graduation run on Spotify is still climbing. Ye's album is sitting near 9.49 billion streams, with more than 5 million landing every day, so the 10 billion mark is basically in view 🎓
Tbh what's the best song on Ye's Graduation
One of the biggest sales battles in history happened when Ye's Graduation dropped and beat 50 Cent's Curtis. The numbers are wild: Graduation opened selling around 957K units while Curtis debuted with around 691K. That…
That 'Stronger' by Ye went through roughly 75 distinct mixing iterations before the final version dropped. It ended up being a defining record from the album 'Graduation'.
Graduation by Ye turns 19 today, that album still hits every single time 🐻
Four covers, one keeper. Kanye's Graduation, that CN Tower shot, the Off-White tape one, or Travis Scott's Astroworld, which survives the purge? #KANYEWEST
Graduation just hit #69 on Apple Music US and BULLY (DELUXE) is down at #100. Ye’s older work is actually charting above the new drop 🤯
