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Kendrick Lamar has another No. 1 album on his hands after his surprise project, GNX, topped the Billboard 200 chart.
According to Billboard, Kendrick moved 319,000 equivalent album units in the week ending on November 28 for GNX. Those numbers gave the Compton-bred rapper the top spot, topping the Wicked soundtrack, which landed at No. 2 with 139,000 equivalent album units earned.
K Dot's GNX is his fifth No. 1 album, while also becoming the third-biggest streaming week for any album, the year's biggest streaming week for any R&B/hip-hop album, and the second-biggest debut streaming week this year.
Lamar's last four No. 1 albums are Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022), DAMN. (2017), Untitled Unmastered (2016), and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015). This year, he also got a pair of No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with "Like That" alongside Future and Metro Boomin and "Not Like Us."
GNX was released on November 22 and features SZA, Roddy Ricch, AzChike, and several California-based artists across its 12 tracks. Kendrick has already released a music video for "squabble up," which is already sitting at 12 million views.
The album has also given birth to a new viral moment thanks to the song "tv off," where Kendrick aggressively screams his "Not Like Us" collaborator Mustard's name. The producer himself hit up X to admit he's joined in on the fun and yelled his name, claiming he forgot who he was for a second.
"I just walked down the street and yelled my own name i forgot i was me," Mustard tweeted.
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