Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Debuts at No. 1


Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” has debuted at No. 1 at the Billboard 200, changing into the California rapper’s fourth consecutive chart-topping effort. The surprise-released set offered a complete of 319,000 album gadgets following its Nov. 22 arrival, in keeping with Luminate.

Produced through Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, and extra, “GNX” additionally options a number of Los Angeles-based rappers and artists together with AzChike and Lefty Gunplay, amongst others. It was once supported with the discharge of a song video for “Squabble Up.”

The album arrived with the sixth-largest opening week numbers for a 2024 album (through similar album gadgets), and logged the most important streaming week for any R&B/hip-hop album (379.72 million).

“GNX” is Lamar’s fourth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1, following “Mr. Morale & the Giant Steppers” (2022), “Rattling.” (2017) and “To Pimp a Butterfly” (2015). Lamar’s “Untitled Unmastered” (2016) and “Black Panther: The Album” (2018) additionally debuted atop the Billboard 200.

Following Lamar is the “Depraved” movie’s soundtrack, which ratings the very best debut for a big-screen adaptation of a level musical ever. The final time a stage-to-screen musical soundtrack debuted within the best 5 of the albums chart when “Chicago” landed at No. 4 in 2003.

The rest of the highest 10 is stuffed out through Sabrina Chippie‘s “Brief n’ Candy” at No. 3; Tyler, The Writer’s “Chromakopia” is at No. 4; Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Laborious and Cushy” is at No. 5; Gracie Abrams’ “The Secret of Us” is at No. 6 and Rauw Alejandro’s “Cosa Nuestra” is at No. 7. Finally, Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Division” is at No. 8; Morgan Wallen’s “One Factor at a Time” at No. 9; and Chappell Roan’s “The Upward thrust and Fall of a Midwest Princess” is at No. 10.


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