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Kendrick Lamar’s “Mr Morale and The Big Steppers” debuts at No.1 on Billboard 200.
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‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’ debut at No. 1 on Billboard 200 album chart
American rapper, songwriter, and record producer Kendrick Lamar has hit new peaks as his album “Mr Morale & The Big Steppers” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Kendrick Lamar’s new album, “Mr Morale & The Big Steppers”, has landed on top of the Billboard 200 with 295,000 equivalent album units sold in the first week.
“Mr Morale & The Big Steppers” is Lamar’s fourth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
According to Billboard report, “Mr Morale & The Big Steppers” project recorded 295,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 19, debuting as the largest week of the year for any album this year.
The outlet also reports the double album’s total to include 258,500 in streaming equivalent album units (343.02 million on-demand streams of the tracks), 35,500 in album sales and 1,500 in track equivalent album units.
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The record officially set a series of new records, including the biggest debut week of 2022, the biggest week by equivalent album units since November 2021, the largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album this year and the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022.
The project was released on May 13 and is Kendrick Lamar’s fifth studio bodywork and first album in more than 5 years. It is a follow up to DAMN., released in April 2017.
DAMN spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 (his longest run at No. 1), was 2017’s year-end No. 1 album on the tally and was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music.