{"id":36063,"date":"2025-02-17T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/?p=36063"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T02:43:11","slug":"kendrick-lamar-becomes-first-rapper-to-have-3-albums-in-billboard-top-10-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/kendrick-lamar-becomes-first-rapper-to-have-3-albums-in-billboard-top-10-simultaneously\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Becomes First Rapper To Have 3 Albums In Billboard Top 10 Simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Lamar has reached yet another milestone following his Super Bowl performance: he has become the first rap act ever to have three albums in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-first-rapper-3-albums-billboard-top-10-simultaneously\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HipHopDX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Billboard 200 chart dated February 22 (which reflects sales during the week ending February 13), the outlet reported on Sunday (February 16), K.Dot\u2019s latest, GNX, will return to the number one slot. His 2017 release DAMN will be at number nine, while 2012\u2019s good kid, m.A.A.d city will be at 10.<\/p>\n<p>Lamar is the first living male artist to have a trio of albums in the chart\u2019s top 10 since Herb Alpert in 1966. The most recent artist to hit the mark was, unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift, who actually had five simultaneous albums in the top 10 in 2023. In the immediate aftermath of Prince\u2018s 2016 death, he had three albums in the top 10, and then five the following week.<\/p>\n<p>In this most recent charting week, Kendrick\u2019s GNX moved 236,000 equivalent album units, while DAMN moved 39,000 and good kid did 37,000.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s post-Super Bowl wins continued when \u201cNot Like Us\u201d received the Saturday Night Live treatment thanks to Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer.<\/p>\n<p>During the sketch comedy show\u2019s 50th anniversary special this past weekend, Ferrell and Gasteyer reprised their classic roles as music teachers Marty and Bobbi Culp to cover a host of modern hits.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-first-rapper-3-albums-billboard-top-10-simultaneously\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-first-rapper-3-albums-billboard-top-10-simultaneously<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"enjoy-3994555181\" class=\"enjoy-after-content enjoy-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4334670924766984\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4334670924766984\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6055607388\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendrick Lamar has reached yet another milestone following his Super Bowl performance: he has become the first rap act ever to have three albums in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart at the same time. Source: HipHopDX On the Billboard 200 chart dated February 22 (which reflects sales during the week ending February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12252,9577,7293,925],"tags":[3620,9726,5453,6920,1040,10418,4431,9585,13097,2680,6919,13611,3679],"class_list":["post-36063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-new-music","category-news","category-top-10","category-whats-new","tag-album","tag-artist","tag-billboard","tag-charts","tag-hip-hop","tag-kendrick-lamar","tag-music","tag-news","tag-not-like-us","tag-rap","tag-top-10","tag-trio","tag-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36065,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36063\/revisions\/36065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enjoythebeats.com\/remixclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}