Kendrick Lamar’s Album Soars 10,000% In Sales Post-Super Bowl
ByHugh McIntyre, Senior Contributor. Hugh McIntyre covers song, with a focal point on the worldwide charts.
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Following his sweep on the 2025 Grammys and his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, it appears that evidently Kendrick Lamar can do no wrong.
The rapper’s song is gaining at the charts via way of means of leaps and boundaries as hundreds of thousands of humans across the united states of america rush to move and buy the entirety from his discography.
Lamar’s today’s album, GNX, enjoys its quality income week ever this frame, although it turned into surely launched months ago, and the full-size majority of albums earn their biggest income length while they’re emblem new. Purchases of the months-vintage series soared via way of means of numerous thousand percentage as Americans have been reintroduced to the set through the halftime show.
GNX offered 116,000 copies all through America ultimate week, in keeping with Luminate. That sum is up 10,a hundred% from the preceding period, whilst the identify offered a bit greater than 1,a hundred copies.
Thanks to that big income surge, GNX hits No. 1 at the Top Album Sales chart for the primary time. This body marks the project’s 2d at the list, because it reappears from out of nowhere in first location.
Lamar has now accrued 4 No. 1s at the Top Album Sales chart. He first hit the height role in 2015 with To Pimp a Butterfly. One yr later, Untitled Unmastered opened in first location. The following yr, Damn. additionally released beforehand of each different project.
The celebrity hip-hop musician has visible extra releases upward thrust into the pinnacle 10, however now no longer pretty run the show. Both Good Kid, m.A.A.d City and Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers peaked in 2d location at the Top Album Sales chart once they debuted.
This week, Lamar bookends the very best tier at the Top Album Sales chart. As GNX reaches No. 1, Good Kid, m.A.A.d City bolts from No. 18 to No. 10.
The rapper fills extra areas at the listing of the bestselling albums of any fashion or through any layout at some point of the country. Damn. steps up from No. 31 to No. 12, nearly giving Lamar a trio of pinnacle 10s. To Pimp a Butterfly reappears at No. 21 after now no longer locating area at the listing only some days ago.GNX presently seems on 1/2 of a dozen Billboard charts, and it leads all of them.
The identify returns to No. 1 at the Billboard 200, Top Streaming Albums, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums lists. It holds consistent beforehand of each different launch at the Top Rap Albums roster. At the equal time, it reappears at No. 1 at the Top Album Sales chart and debuts in first region at the Vinyl Albums ranking.
