Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Kendrick Lamar’s marvel album GNX debuts at No. 1 at the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 7), marking his 5th chart-topper, all earned consecutively. It launches with 319,000 identical album gadgets earned within the U.S. within the week finishing Nov. 28, consistent with Luminate — the yr’s sixth-largest debut body. The set’s opening week was once in large part pushed by means of streaming job, and the 12-song effort launches with 2024’s third-biggest streaming week for any album. GNX arrived without a caution on Nov. 22 round midday ET.

Additionally within the most sensible 10 of the most recent Billboard 200, the Depraved movie soundtrack enters at No. 2, notching the perfect debut for a big-screen adaptation of a level musical ever. The brand new Depraved movie, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, is in response to the long-running level musical of the similar title, which has performed on Broadway in New York since 2003.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in response to multi-metric intake as measured in identical album gadgets, compiled by means of Luminate. Devices contain album gross sales, observe identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand legit audio and video streams generated by means of songs from an album. The brand new Dec. 7, 2024-dated chart might be posted in complete on Billboard‘s website online on Tuesday (Dec. 3). For all chart information, practice @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of GNX’s 319,000 first-week identical album gadgets, SEA gadgets contain 285,000 (equaling 379.72 million on-demand legit streams of the set’s 12 songs; it debuts at No. 1 on Most sensible Streaming Albums), album gross sales contain 32,000 (it was once most effective to be had as a broadly to be had same old virtual obtain, in each a blank and particular version; it debuts at No. 2 on Most sensible Album Gross sales), and TEA gadgets contain 2,000.

GNX rankings 2024’s sixth-largest opening week, by means of identical album gadgets, amongst all albums. Additional, with 379.72 million on-demand legit streams generated by means of its songs, the album yields the yr’s greatest streaming week for any R&B/hip-hop album. Additional, amongst all albums, it logs the yr’s second-biggest debut streaming week, and the yr’s third-largest streaming week general. (The yr’s two larger streaming weeks had been the primary and moment weeks of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division, with 891.37 and 428.54 million, respectively.)

Lamar prior to now led the Billboard 200 with Mr. Morale & the Large Steppers (2022), DAMN. (2017), Untitled Unmastered (2016) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015). Previous in 2024, he nabbed a couple of No. 1s at the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart together with his solo reduce “No longer Like Us” (in Would possibly), in a while after he led the record with the co-billed collaboration “Like That” (in April) with Long run and Metro Boomin. Neither tune is incorporated on GNX.

GNX precedes Lamar headlining flip on the upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime display on Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. He was once introduced because the celebrity act of the festivities on Sept. 8. It is going to mark his moment look on the halftime display, following the all-star 2022 hip-hop show off with Dr. Dre on the helm.

The Depraved movie soundtrack takes a bow at No. 2 at the Billboard 200, the perfect debut ever by means of a big-screen adaptation of a level musical.

The remaining time a stage-to-screen musical soundtrack debuted within the most sensible 5 was once when Chicago danced in at No. 4 — over 21 years in the past, at the Feb. 1, 2003 chart — on its solution to a No. 2 top every week later. Surroundings apart debut ranks, the remaining stage-to-screen film musical soundtrack to achieve the highest two was once Les Miserables, which spent every week at No. 1 at the Jan. 19, 2013-dated chart. (It debuted at No. 33, after which moved to No. 2 and No. 1 in its moment and 0.33 weeks.)

Amongst all soundtracks in 2024, Depraved is the second one soundtrack to achieve the highest 10 for the primary time this yr, and the perfect charting, following Twisters (No. 7 top) in August.

Depraved launches with 139,000 identical album gadgets earned within the week finishing Nov. 28 — the largest week for a full-length theatrical movie soundtrack since Girl Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Superstar Is Born earned 143,000 gadgets in its moment week (Oct. 17, 2018, chart; down from its 162,000 bow). Depraved additionally logs the largest week for any stage-to-screen musical soundtrack for the reason that Billboard 200 started score titles by means of identical album gadgets in December 2014.

Of Depraved’s opening-week sum, album gross sales contain 85,000 (it’s No. 1 on Most sensible Album Gross sales, SEA gadgets contain 52,000 (equaling 67.66 million on-demand legit streams of the album’s tracks; it’s No. 4 on Most sensible Streaming Albums) and TEA gadgets contain 2,000. With 67.66 million streams generated by means of its songs, Depraved has 2024’s greatest streaming week for any soundtrack, and the biggest streaming week ever for a stage-to-screen musical movie soundtrack.

Depraved’s first-week album gross sales ranking the biggest gross sales week for a full-length theatrical movie soundtrack since A Superstar Is Born’s moment week (86,000). Depraved has the biggest debut gross sales week for a stage-to-screen musical movie since Dreamgirls opened with 92,000 (Dec. 23, 2006 chart). The remaining time a stage-to-screen musical movie soundtrack offered greater than Depraved this previous week was once when Les Miserables reached No. 1 at the Billboard 200 with 93,000 in its 0.33 chart week (Jan. 19, 2013, chart).

Depraved’s opening week gross sales had been reinforced by means of its availability throughout six vinyl variants (together with a signed version, autographed by means of Erivo and Grande), 4 CD variants (together with a signed version) and a typical virtual obtain album.

Sabrina Chippie‘s chart-topping Brief n’ Candy rises 5-3 at the Billboard 200 (69,000 identical album gadgets; down 4%); Tyler, The Author’s former No. 1 CHROMAKOPIA falls 3-4 (61,000; down 24%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Exhausting and Comfortable rounds out the highest 5, emerging 9-5 with 50,000 (up 2%).

Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us steps 8-6 (48,000 identical album gadgets; down 5%); Rauw Alejandro’s Cosa Nuestra falls 6-7 (44,000; down 35% in its moment week); Swift’s former chief The Tortured Poets Division climbs 11-8 (43,000; up 1%); Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time ascends 12-9 (42,000; up 2%); and Chappell Roan’s The Upward thrust and Fall of a Midwest Princess is a non-mover at No. 10 (42,000; down 2%).

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