Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Has Bought 1 Million Items—In 2025

Kendrick Lamar is on fairly the successful streak. He carried out within the Tremendous Bowl halftime present, lives in Drake’s thoughts rent-free, and has offered 1,000,000 copies of his newest album in a shade underneath three months.

Lamar is the primary hip-hop recording artist to promote over a million items of his album, GNX, in 2025, in keeping with chart information.

The album was launched on Nov. 22, 2024, on Lamar’s boutique label, PGLang, with distribution underneath the Interscope banner (dad or mum firm is Common Music Group).

.@kendricklamar‘s ‘GNX’ turns into the primary hip-hop album to promote over 1 million items within the US in 2025. pic.twitter.com/mRGuZNzFjP

— chart information (@chartdata) March 23, 2025

The Compton native has seen a resurgence in his hip-hop recording profession after participating in a highly-contested rap battle along with his nemesis, Canadian rapper Drake.

After a number of back-and-forths between the 2 rappers, Lamar’s single, “Not Like Us,” set the bar so excessive that many rap aficionados contemplate it the perfect diss report ever. The knockout punch was so extreme that not solely did Drake undergo, maybe the best loss in hip-hop historical past, he filed a lawsuit in opposition to the label, which each artists data for, that launched the tune, Common Music Group (UMG).

UMG lately filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit that Drake. He alleges that the label, together with iHeartMedia, artificially inflated the numbers and took part in a pay-per-click scheme to assist promote the one. After discovering out that iHeartMedia proved it did nothing mistaken, Drake agreed to drop them from the lawsuit.

Nevertheless, UMG responded to the “Push Ups” rapper’s go well with by calling him a sore loser in a “rap battle that he provoked” in opposition to Lamar. The label additionally claimed that Drake’s “unjustified claims in opposition to UMG are not more than Drake’s try to save lots of face for his unsuccessful rap battle with Lamar.”

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