Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City hits 650 weeks on the Billboard 200, becoming the eleventh … More
Kendrick Lamar’s latest full-length, GNX, has been a mainstay near the top of the Billboard 200 for months, while singles like “Luther” with SZA and “Squabble Up” continue to rack up streams and sales with ease. But even as his current era continues with great success, fans haven’t let go of the rapper’s older material. One of his earliest triumphs reaches a major milestone that puts him in an extremely elite category on one of Billboard’s most competitive rankings.
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Hits 650 Weeks on the Billboard 200
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City reaches a new peak — not in terms of peaks, but when it comes to longevity. The album has now spent 650 weeks on the Billboard 200, a feat that only a handful of titles in history have managed.
According to Luminate, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City moved 18,600 equivalent units in the most recent tracking frame. Of that figure, 2,800 units came from pure album sales — enough to place the decade-old project smack in the middle of the Top Album Sales chart once again.
Kendrick Lamar Joins an Exclusive List of Artists
Lamar is now also part of a very short list, as he becomes just the eleventh artist in U.S. history to see one of their albums spend 650 weeks on the Billboard 200. The all-time record remains untouched, and it’s owned by Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. That set is currently at 990 weeks on the tally and counting. That collection needs just 10 more frames to become the first to hit 1,000, a likely inevitability.
Right behind Floyd on the list of the longest-charting titles on the Billboard 200 are Legend by Bob Marley and the Wailers (882 weeks) and Journey’s Greatest Hits (852). The most recent addition to the 650-week club before Lamar was Michael Jackson’s Thriller, which joined months ago and is now up to 673 weeks (and climbing).
Three Kendrick Lamar Albums Live Inside the Top 40
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City dips just one spot this frame to No. 36 on the Billboard 200. That’s an impressive enough position on its own, but it’s made even more so by the fact that it’s not the only Lamar project living inside the top 40. DAMN. lands right behind it at No. 37, while GNX continues its run in the top five, slipping only slightly from No. 4 to No. 5 this time around.
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is Both Rising and Falling
Across the six different Billboard tallies that still feature Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, the full-length mostly drops slightly this week, but not everywhere. The set actually rises on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts — two genre-specific rankings where Lamar has long been a dominant figure.
Originally released in 2012, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City helped turn Lamar from a rising star into a Grammy-winning, critically adored household name. The full-length features now-iconic singles like “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and “Backseat Freestyle,” and it’s clearly still connecting with a huge number of fans to this day.