Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ Debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart Week of 2022

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers lands his fourth No.1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as his latest release, launching in this weekend (dated May 28).

According to Billboard, the double album’s total includes 295,500 in streaming equivalent album units (343.02 million on-demand streams of the tracks), 35,500 in album sales and 1,500 in track equivalent album units. The record officially set a series of new records, including the biggest debut week of 2022 so far, the biggest week by equivalent album units since November 2021, the largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album this year so far and the largest sales week for a digital album in 2022. This marks K-Dot’s fourth No. 1 entry on the Billboard 200.

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was announced on April 18 and released on May 13. It’s Lamar’s first album in just over five years. His last project was DAMN., released in April 2017. kendrick lamar damn. Spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200 (his longest run at No. 1), was 2017’s year-end No. 1 album on the tally, and was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Other new titles on this week’s Billboard 200 are TOMORROW X TOGETHER at No. 4, Florence + The Machine at No. 7 and The Black Keys at No. 8. Meanwhile, Bad Bunny and Future both step down to Nos. 2 and 3, followed by Morgan Wallen at No. 5. Rounding out this week’s top 10 are Jack Harlow at No. 6, Olivia Rodrigo at No. 9 and Lil Durk at No. 10.