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Kendrick Lamar Lands No. 1 Album With GNX

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Kendrick Lamar Lands No. 1 Album With GNX

It’s the rapper’s fourth consecutive studio album to debut atop the Billboard 200

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Kendrick Lamar, February 2023 (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise-released new album, GNX, has debuted atop the Billboard 200. It sold 319,000 equivalent album units, Billboard reports via Luminate. GNX is now the rapper’s fourth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1, following Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Damn., and To Pimp a Butterfly. Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered. and Black Panther: The Album also made chart-topping debuts.

Lamar released GNX on November 22. He made the album with producers Sounwave, Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, and more. He also followed the LP’s release with a music video for standout song “Squabble Up.”

Check out Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Songs of 2024,” featuring Kendrick Lamar’s pre-GNX single “Not Like Us” at No. 1.

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