Released on Nov. 22, GNX marks Lamar’s fifth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. He previously reached the summit with his previous releases Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022), DAMN. (2017), Untitled Unmastered (2016) and To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).

The album is now Lamar’s fifth total and consecutive chart-topping album. GNX earned 319,000 equivalent album units in the US during the week ending November 28, which is the sixth-biggest debut week of 2024. It also had the third-biggest streaming week for any album this year, with 379.72 million on-demand official streams for the project’s songs.

Kendrick Lamar secured the highly coveted No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with GNX, his surprise sixth studio LP released on Nov. 22. Despite having virtually no rollout, aside from the hype surrounding his June diss track “Not Like Us” targeting Drake,