Kendrick Lamar’sMr. Morale & The Big Steppers has gained another impressive accolade and has now remained on the Billboard 200 for one whole year.
Chart Data reported that K. Dot’s Grammy-award-winning fifth studio album has now remained on the Billboard 200 for over a year, sitting comfortably at No. 110 as of Monday (May 15). In related news, Kendrick’s previous effort DAMN. also currently sits at No. 41 on the chart.
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Mr. Morale & The Big Steppershas continued to achieve impressive feats since it dropped on May 13, 2022. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 295,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week — the biggest debut for a rap album this year. Last August, Chart Data also reported that the album was the first rap album from 2022 to cross one billion streams on Spotify.
In April, it was also reported that Kung Fu Kenny’s subsequent Big Steppers Tour bested Drake as the highest-grossing rap tour, pulling in over $110.9 million from 929,000 tickets across 73 shows.
.@kendricklamar's 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers' has now spent 1 full year on the Billboard 200. pic.twitter.com/2pXd2wnVLY
— chart data (@chartdata) May 15, 2023
In other news, the former TDE rapper is already working on his sixth studio album, according to his longtime producer Sounwave. He informed Complex that the pair began making new music right after Mr. Morale dropped, and said it’s common for Kendrick to never stop working.
“Oh, we always start, immediately after,” he said. “Like, we’re starting on the next one now. That’s never going to change, all the way from the Kendrick Lamar EP. The next day, we started on Section.80. It’s just the ideas never stopped. That’s one of the main reasons I go on tour with him, is to create the next album.
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“We can’t skip a beat. We have to just keep it going. There’s no breaks. There’s no such thing as a vacation when you’re doing what you love. Everything you do is what you love to do, so you’re excited.”
