Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City’ Spends 10 Consecutive Years on Billboard 200 Chart

 

 

A new milestone has been unlocked by the 2012 album Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City by Kendrick Lamar.

 

The project, which has spent every year on the Billboard 200 album chart, marked its tenth anniversary this week. It is the first hip-hop studio album in history to reach this milestone, according to Chart Data.

 

That is 520 weeks in total on the Billboard 200. Just a few weeks after its release, on Nov. 12, 2012, the album reached its highest point at No. 2. Both of Lamar’s subsequent albums, To Pimp a Butterfly from 2015 and Damn. from 2017, spent weeks on that Billboard chart, with the first album spending 135 weeks there and the latter 287. Both of those albums, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers from 2022 and Untitled Unmastered from 2016 respectively, peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

 

GKMC sold 242,000 units in its first week, which set a record for the year’s highest first-week sales for a male rapper. Some of Kendrick Lamar’s most well-known songs are featured on the album, including “Swimming Pools,” “M.A.A.D. City,” “Backseat Freestyle,” “Money Trees,” and “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe,” with contributions from Drake, Dr. Dre, Jay Rock, and others.