Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Kanye West Doubles Down On Recent Album Sales Failure, Will Release A New One While He’s on “Saturday Night Live”

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Kanye West isn’t satisfied with the low sales of his recent “Ye” album– released June 1st, sold approximately 244,000 copies.

So we’ll get a new Kanye album this Saturday night. It’s called “Yandhi,” which maybe is his Kanye’s take on Gandhi. Anyway, he’ll be the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” so this will be an occasion.

This is less expensive than dragging journalists to Wyoming, as he did for “Ye.”

Kanye’s already causing trouble at rehearsals. He tweeted this afternoon: “I’m at SNL rehearsal and we’re “trying” to have the performance shot on an IPhone Were receiving some push back.”

 

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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