Kendrick Lamar's 'Untitled' debuts at No. 1
Nearly a year after his To Pimp a Butterfly bowed at No. 1, Kendrick Lamar is back on top again.
The rapper earned his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with Untitled Unmastered, which sold 142,000 copies in the week since its surprise March 4 release, according to Nielsen Music. The critically acclaimed, eight-song compilation features previously unreleased demos from Butterfly, which started with 324,000 copies sold in March 2015.
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According to Billboard, Lamar is the third artist since January 2015 to score two or more No. 1 albums, joining Drake (If You're Reading This It's Too Late and his Future joint album, What a Time to Be Alive) and Future (DS2, Evol and Alive).
Although he lost album of the year to Taylor Swift (1989) at last month's Grammy Awards, Lamar walked home with five trophies including best rap album (Butterfly) and song (Alright). Alright made headlines this past weekend when protesters chanted the anthem's chorus after Donald Trump was a no-show at a Chicago rally.