Kendrick Lamar’s GNX jumps again to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, for a second week atop the checklist (rising 4-1 on the survey dated Feb. 22), following his Tremendous Bowl halftime present (Feb. 9) and the set’s launch on bodily codecs. (It was beforehand solely out there to stream, and to buy as a digital obtain album.)
Plus, two extra Lamar albums return to the highest 10 within the wake of the halftime present: 2017’s chart-topping DAMN. drives 29-9 and 2012’s good child, m.A.A.d metropolis vaults 27-10. The newest Billboard 200 displays exercise generated within the U.S. within the week ending Feb. 13.
With GNX, DAMN. and good child, m.A.A.d metropolis all within the high 10, Lamar is the primary rap act with three albums within the high 10 of the Billboard 200 on the similar time. The chart started publishing on an everyday, weekly foundation in March 1956.
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In accordance with Luminate, of the 236,000 equal album models earned by GNX within the week ending Feb. 13 within the U.S., SEA models comprise 117,000 (up 86%; equaling 161.01 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it jumps 4-1 on High Streaming Albums), album gross sales comprise 116,000 (up 10,100%; it reenters at No. 1 on High Album Gross sales for its first week at No. 1 on that chart) and TEA models comprise 3,000. The set’s 236,000 models earned mark its largest week because it debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart with 319,000.
With GNX promoting 116,000, that marks Lamar’s largest gross sales week for an album since DAMN. debuted with 353,000 offered in its first week (chart dated Might 6, 2017). Of GNX’s 116,000 offered, vinyl gross sales comprise 87,000 — Lamar’s finest week ever on vinyl. GNX was launched on bodily codecs for the primary time on Feb. 7, on CD, cassette and 5 vinyl variants.
As Lamar has three albums concurrently within the high 10 on the Billboard 200, he’s the primary residing male artist to realize that feat since Herb Alpert on the Dec. 24, 1966-dated chart (when he, together with the Tijuana Brass, had three titles within the high 10). The newest act, general, with not less than three albums within the high 10 was Taylor Swift on the Dec. 9, 2023, chart, when she had 5 within the area.
Earlier than Lamar, the final male artist — or anybody apart from Swift — to have not less than three albums within the high 10 on the similar time was Prince, following his dying, in 2016. That 12 months, on the Might 14 chart, he logged 5 titles within the area; and on the Might 7 chart, he had three within the high 10. Prince died on April 21, 2016.
GNX is at present in its twelfth consecutive week on the chart and has but to depart the highest 5 on the weekly tally.
Former No. 1 DAMN. drives 29-9 on the Billboard 200 with 39,000 equal album models earned (up 93%) and good child, m.A.A.d metropolis jumps 27-10 with 37,000 models (up 71%). DAMN. spent 4 weeks atop the checklist in 2017, and it was final within the high 10 on the March 17, 2018-dated chart, when it ranked at No. 9. The good child album peaked at No. 2 in 2012 and was final within the high 10 on the Nov. 24, 2012-dated chart, when it positioned at No. 9.
SZA, who was a particular visitor performer throughout Lamar’s halftime present, sees her former No. 1 SOS climb 3-2 on the newest Billboard 200 with 109,000 equal album models earned (up 33%). The album was reissued on Feb. 9 with 4 further tracks.
The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow falls 1-3 on the Billboard 200 in its second week (101,000 equal album models; down 79%), Dangerous Bunny’s chart-topping Debí Tirar Más Fotos descends 2-4 (78,000; down 17%) and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess climbs 6-5 (59,000; up 19%).
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Delicate falls 5-6 (56,000 equal album models earned; up 6%), Sabrina Carpenter’s former chief Quick n’ Candy is regular at No. 7 (51,000; up 5%) and Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time is a non-mover at No. 8 (41,000; down 8%).
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