Kendrick Lamar Beats Drake and PartyNextDoor on Albums Chart by 500 Units
variety.comThania Garcia Kendrick Lamar‘s “GNX” — a November release — has notched a third non-consecutive week as the No. 1 album in the United States.
Results for the Billboard 200 arrived well over 24 hours behind schedule, likely due to an unusually close finish between the top three albums: Lamar’s “GNX” landed back at No.
1 with a total of 90,500 units (per Luminate), followed by Drake and PartyNextDoor’s “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” with 90,000 units, and Tate McRae’s “So Close To What” tallied 87,000 units. “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” entered at No.
1 in February as Drake’s 14th chart-topping LP and PartyNextDoor’s first. It knocked Lamar’s “GNX” out of the summit, and was later replaced by fellow Canadian artist McRae’s “So Close To What,” which debuted with the biggest opening numbers for a woman artist this year. “GNX” continues to have a strong presence on streaming platforms, logging 103 million streams this week.
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