Kendrick Lamar’s GNX tops the Billboard 200 chart.
Kendrick Lamar continues his great year as the rapper’s latest surprise album GNX debuted at the top of Billboard 200. The new project moved 319,000 equivalent album units in the first week, which is the most by any rap album this year.
This is K. Dot’s sixth consecutive number-one album of his career and the highest first-week sales of his career. It follows up on DAMN. (603,000) and To Pimp a Butterfly (324,000). The rapper’s previous 2022 album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, topped the chart with 295,000 first-week sales.
The rapper surpassed first week sales of Tyler, The Creator‘s “Chromakopia” (299,500), Eminem‘s “The Death of Slim Shady” (281,000) and Future & Metro Boomin‘s “We Don’t Trust You” (251,000).
The new album contains a pack of 12 songs with guest appearance from SZA on “Luther” and “Gloria.” It additionally features appearances from Siete, Wallie the Sensei, AzChike, Deyra Barrera, Dody6, Hitta J3, Ink, Peysoh, Roddy Ricch, Sam Dew, and YoungThreat.
Billboard 200: #1(new) @kendricklamar, GNX 319,000 [379.72 million on-demand streams | 32,000 pure sales].
— chart data (@chartdata) December 1, 2024
Biggest US album debuts of 2024:
#1 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT 2.61M
#2 COWBOY CARTER 407K
#3 Short n’ Sweet 362K
#4 DAYS BEFORE RODEO 361K
#5 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 339K
#6 GNX 319K
#7 CHROMAKOPIA 300K
#8 The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) 281K
#9 WE DON’T TRUST YOU 251K…— chart data (@chartdata) December 1, 2024
