Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers has had the biggest No. 1 Billboard debut of 2022 so far.
Mr. Morale stepped over Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti peak with 295,500 album-equivalent units; Bad Bunny had previously beaten Future’s I Never Liked You which amassed 222,000 in first week sales.
This marks Lamar’s fourth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper revealed that he was working on new material last summer, posting a statement to a new website titled Okloma.
He said that the project would be his final release for Top Dawg Entertainment.
Mr. Morale arrived five years after its predecessor DAMN., for which Lamar earned the distinction of being the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize.