Kendrick Lamar is back with another massive week on Billboard’s charts, thanks to his new surprise album, GNX.
Released without advance notice Nov. 22 on pgLand/Interscope/ICLG, GNX blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Dec. 7) with 319,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week, according to Luminate. It becomes his fifth leader, following Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (2022), DAMN. (2017), untitled unmastered. (2016) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).
Concurrently, all 12 GNX tracks enter the Billboard Hot 100, all in the top 30 with seven in in the top 10 – including the entire top five. He joins Taylor Swift, Drake and The Beatles as the only acts to dominate the entire top five in the same week.
Kendrick Lamar GNX Songs on the Hot 100 (dated Dec. 7):
No. 1, “Squabble Up”
No. 2, “TV Off,” feat. Lefty Gunplay
No. 3, “Luther” with SZA
No. 4, “Wacced Out Murals”
No. 5, “Hey Now,” feat. Dody6
No. 8, “Reincarnated”
No. 9, “Man at the Garden”
No. 11, “Dodger Blue,” feat. Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x & Roddy Ricch
No. 13, “Peekaboo,” feat. AzChike
No. 14, “Heart Pt. 6”
No. 24, “GNX,” feat. Hitta J3, YoungThreat & Peysoh
No. 27, “Gloria,” with SZA
“Squabble Up” earns Lamar his fifth Hot 100 No. 1, after “Not Like Us” and “Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin (both earlier in 2024), “Humble.” (2017) and as featured on Swift’s “Bad Blood” (2015). He also ups his career counts to 87 total Hot 100 entries, 57 top 40 hits, 22 top 10s and 14 top five titles.
Thanks to their featured appearances on the album, Lefty Gunplay, Dody6, Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x, AzChike, Hitta J3, YoungThreat and Peysoh all score their first career Hot 100 placements.
Meanwhile, Roddy Ricch returns to the Hot 100 for the first time in two years thanks to his featured turn on “Dodger Blue.” The rapper has notched two No. 1s: “The Box” and as featured on DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” both in 2020.
