CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Billboard Magazine reports:

Kendrick Lamar is back with another massive week on Billboard’s charts, thanks to his new surprise album, GNX.

Released without advance notice Nov. 22 on pgLand/Interscope/ICLG, GNX blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (dated Dec. 7) with 319,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.

Concurrently, all 12 GNX tracks enter the Billboard Hot 100, all in the top 30 with seven in in the top 10 – including the entire top five. He joins Taylor Swift, Drake and The Beatles as the only acts to dominate the entire top five in the same week.

Read the full article.

Tracks from “GNX” occupy the entire Top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, with “Squabble Up” at No. 1. It has blocked what would have been a historic week for Shaboozey’s country hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” https://t.co/AYYRoWXDv3

— New York Times Music (@nytimesmusic) December 6, 2024

All 12 songs from @kendricklamar‘s GNX debut on this week’s #Hot100 📈💪

He claims the entire top 5 spots on this week’s chart, becoming just the fourth artist in history to dominate the entire top 5 simultaneously.

Take a look at where each song from the album ended up, and… pic.twitter.com/NGQowd5BIT

— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) December 3, 2024

.@kendricklamar‘s “squabble up” debuts atop the @billboard Hot 100, blocking @ShaboozeysJeans‘ “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” from breaking the record for most weeks at #1 https://t.co/fnNlKoB6eO

— Stereogum (@stereogum) December 2, 2024