Kendrick Lamar is hot stepping at the top of the Billboard 200 charts with his latest album, Mr. Morale & The Hotsteppers.
The album now becomes the highest debut of the year. In its first week, the album moved 295,500 equivalent album units with 35,500 of the sum in traditional album sales. 258,500 SEA units equated 343.02 on-demand streams of its 18 tracks.
The release marks Kendrick’s fourth consecutive No. 1 debut album, which follows his previous chart-toppers DAMN. (2017), Untitled Mastered (2016), and To Pimp A Butterfly (2015). Kendrick’s Good Kid, M.A.D.D City debuted at No. 2 in 2012. Overall, Kendrick has five Top 5 albums.
Mr. Morale & The Hotsteppers is the Compton rapper’s fifth and final studio album on TDE. The double-album features “N95” and collaborations by Kodak Black, Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah, Sampha, Blxst, Taylour Paige, Baby Keem, Tanna Leone, and more. Congrats!
