Kendrick Lamar's new album entitled "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers "debuts at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
The "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers "recorded equivalent sales of 295,500 albums in the US in the week ended May 19, according to Luminate, which is the best-selling week of any album this year.
This is the third consecutive week in which the 2022 weekly sales record in the US is broken. One week ago, Bad Bunny's "Un Verano Sin Ti" debuted at No. 1 with 274,000 sales, and a week earlier, Future's "I Never Liked You" peaked at No. 1 with 222,000 sales.
The "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers "was announced on April 18 and released on May 13. It is Kendrick Lamar's first album in five years.
His latest album was "DAMN.", Which topped the Billboard 200 for four weeks, marking Kendrick Lamar's best performance to date. The "DAMN." was also the No. 1 album of 2017 in the US and in 2018 won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The 18 songs of "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ». are evenly divided into two parts, each with nine pieces.
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From the total of 295,500 sales of "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ", 258,500 sales correspond to the 343.02 million streams that collected the 18 songs of the album in the US in the first week of its release, 35,000 were the net sales of albums and 1,500 were the sales of individual songs of the album
The "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers "records the highest sales in a week in the US since Adele's" 30 "debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with equivalent sales of 839,000 albums in the week ended November 25, 2021.
Kendrick Lamar's new album also recorded the most streams in a week in the US for an R&B / Hip-Hop album in 2022 and the second best streaming week of 2022 for any album.
Most of the streams in a week for 2020 have been collected by "Un Verano Sin Ti" by Bad Bunny. The album's 23 songs totaled 356.55 million streams.
As the "Mr. Kendrick Lamar's "Morale & The Big Steppers" will not be released on CD until May 27, his 35,000 net sales came exclusively from the album's digital sales.
These are the highest-grossing album sales in a single week in 2022 of a digital album and the highest for any album since Adele's "30" sold 205,000 full-length digital albums in its first week of release in November 2021.
The "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers "is the fourth consecutive album by Kendrick Lamar to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, following in the footsteps of" DAMN. " (2017), «To Pimp A Butterfly» (2015), «Good Kid, M.A.A.D City» (2012).
