Kendrick’s long-awaited fifth studio album, ‘Mr Morale & the Big Steppers debuts at number one.
The Compton rapper tops the Billboard 200 with 295,500 equivalent album units, the largest week of the year and the biggest opening since Adele’s 30 debuted with 839,000 units last year.
The 18-track album, which consists of two parts, received 343.02 million on-demand streams and claims the largest streaming week for an R&B/hip-hop album and the second-biggest streaming week of 2022 for any album.
Additionally, this becomes Kendrick’s fourth album to reach number one. His last project in 2017 opened with 603,000 equivalent album units and spent four weeks atop the Billboard 200.
