Kendrick Lamar's new album 'To Pimp a Butterfly' have garnered huge sales success. After his record breaking Spotify figures, the Compton rapper's third album debuts at No 1 in the UK album charts. Now, the effort topped the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for the first time.
It was recently reported that Kendrick Lamar's new album 'To Pimp a Butterfly' topped US Billboards 200, according to Nielsen Music data for the week ending March 22. Lamar's second studio album is his first Billboard No. 1, having moved 363,000 units in its first week.
According to Billboard, "To Pimp A Butterfly," Lamar's third effort has sold 324,000 albums, 125,000 songs and 3.9 million streams for a total of 363,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan's figures.
It breaks Drake's "If You're Reading This, It's Too Late" album, which sold 495,000 albums in its opening week in February, who was the 2015's biggest seller so far. Lamar's third album also beats the newest album released by Modest Mouse, Marina and the Diamonds, and some popular artists' albums like Taylor Swift '1989', which down by 10%, Ed Sheeran's 'X' and Maroon 5's 'V'.
The Compton rapper astounded everyone by dropping "Butterfly" more than a week before its scheduled drop date. Lamar's squad carefully built up excitement surrounding the release by revealing the album's title and artwork shortly before the album itself dropped, Variety reported. Lamar will be included in the headliners with Elton John and the Black Keys at Outside Lands in San Francisco this summer.
The new album from Lamar contains 16 songs. Some of his songs which were released last month were included and the fans were provided 'raw' music as he calls it.
Looking at the success of Kendrick Lamar's new album 'To Pimp a Butterfly' and the positive reviews we have heard so far, it will definitely stay on top of the charts for weeks, possibly for months.
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