Following the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime display (Feb. 9), headliner Kendrick Lamar sees his GNX album go back to No. 1 at the Billboard 200 for a 2d nonconsecutive week (emerging 4-1 at the Feb. 22-dated chart), whilst his particular visitor SZA climbs 3-2 together with her former chief SOS.
With Lamar and SZA at Nos. 1 and a couple of, it marks the primary time two performers from the 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl halftime display had been Nos. 1 and a couple of within the wake of the display.
Each GNX and SOS had further gas firing up their will increase on the most recent chart, past the halftime display. On Feb. 7, GNX was once issued on bodily codecs for the primary time (sparking Lamar’s largest gross sales week since 2017). SOS was once reissued on Feb. 9 with 4 further bonus tracks.
The newest Billboard 200 chart displays process generated within the U.S. within the monitoring week Feb. 7-13. The Feb. 22-dated Billboard 200 shall be posted in complete on Billboard‘s site on Feb. 19, someday later than standard, owed to the Presidents’ Day vacation within the U.S. on Feb. 17.
Moreover, ahead of Lamar, the final Tremendous Bowl halftime performer to be No. 1 at the Billboard 200 within the speedy wake in their efficiency was once Justin Timberlake in 2018, when his Guy of the Woods album debuted atop the chart dated Feb. 17. The set was once launched on Feb. 2, 2018 — two days ahead of he headlined Tremendous Bowl LII on Feb. 4 in Minneapolis. (The Feb. 17, 2018-dated Billboard 200 captured album process within the monitoring week of Feb. 2-8.)
In Lamar’s halftime display, he was once joined by way of SZA for a couple of songs: “Luther” (from GNX) and “All of the Stars” (from 2018’s Black Panther soundtrack).
The halftime display additionally doubled as a preview of Lamar and SZA’s co-headlining stadium excursion, the Grand Nationwide Excursion, which is slated to start out on April 19 in Minneapolis. It is going to proceed in the course of the U.S. and Canada till July, when it strikes to Europe. The trek is scheduled to wrap on Aug. 9 in Stockholm.
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