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Kanye West's Streams, Radioplays See Drops After Row Over His Anti-Semitic Stance

Repercussions are surfacing for Kanye West's recent hateful remꦓarks as his album sales have plummeted.

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Repercussions are surfacing for Kanye West's recen𓂃t hateful remarks as his album sales have plummeted. 

According to the latest data from Luminate, albums by Kanye West (who now goes by Ye) are down 23 per cent (through October 20, 𓆉as compared to the previous week) and airplay (spins on radio) has dropped off to the tune of 13 per cent in the U.S., reports 'Variety'.

On some stations, like Los Angeles' KIIS-FM, the rapper's rotation in the last week went down to zero. In every monitored category, including physical and digital sales, programmed and on-demand streaming, W𒊎est has seen some losses domestically.

According💮 to 'Variety', worldwide, West's sales h𝓡ave declined by 17.5 per cent, per Luminate, while streams dipped 2 per cent, through October 20.

So far in 2022, West's tot♊al on-demand streams in the U.S. hover around 3.8 billion; in album sales, he's moved just over 363,000 year-to-date with older🏅 titles like 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy', 'College Dropout' and 'Late Registration' seeing the most activity.

'Variety' further ꦑstates that the rapper's controversial remarks about Jewish people, which led to his T🦋witter and Instagram accounts being restricted, have gotten louder between October 6, when he appeared on 'Tucker Carlson', and October 19, when an interview with Piers Morgan was released in its entirety. But so have calls to boycott the artist and his businesses.

Recently, anti-semitic demonstrators gathered on a 405 Freeway overpass in Los Angeles and hung banners praising West. Fliers were also distributed around Brentwood identifying entertainment executives as &ꦏquot;Jewish&quo▨t;.