Kendrick Lamar simply knocked Eminem off the highest spot in 2024’s rap race.
His shock album, GNX, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Dec. 7, incomes Ok. Dot his fifth consecutive chart-topping album.
Released with none build-up or promotion on November 22, GNX pulled in 319,000 equal album models in its first week, in keeping with Luminate through Billboard. That determine not solely marks the sixth-largest debut of 2024 but additionally surpasses Eminem’s Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), which additionally opened on the No.1 spot on Billboard 200 dated July 27, however with solely 281,000 models.
GNX’s streaming stats inform an equally dominant story. The 12-track album amassed a staggering 379.72 million on-demand streams, securing the most important streaming week of 2024 for an R&B/hip-hop album and the third-largest general. Among all genres, GNX trails solely Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, which posted even larger streaming numbers earlier this yr.
Lamar’s achievement cements his reign within the trade and builds on a streak of No. 1 albums that dates again to his 2012 breakout good child, m.A.A.d metropolis.
