Kanye West news : top charts & clothing line

Kanye West’s sophomore album, Late Registration, debuted at Number One on the Billboard Top 200 chart with first-week sales of 860,330. Kanye West, however, hopes to sell millions more over time. He told us that’s partially because he needs to recoup the enormous amount of money he spent making it : "This album ended up costing double. I had a million dollar budget. I was thinking I was going to pocket half of that. The album ended up costing $2 million. I gotta sell, I gotta sell 2.6 million in order to recoup. That’s 2.6 million records to break even."

Kanye West’s record company manufactured an initial shipment of 1.6 million copies of Late Registration. Kanye West plans to tour in support of Late Registration but has not yet announced dates.

more Kanye west news : Kanye West clothing line ??

Kanye West has become the latest recording artist to announce plans to launch a clothing line.

He said : "The only dream I have had is to produce a gold album and win a Grammy. When I was 14 years old and was thinking about being a rapper, I was not really thinking about fashion first. "Now that I have a Grammy under my belt and (my new album) Late Registration is finished, I am ready to launch my clothing line next spring."