Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' Is Now the Longest-Running No. 1 Album on the Top Rap Albums Chart
Overtaking the late Pop Smoke.
Summary
- Kendrick Lamar’s GNX is now the longest-running No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart at 22 weeks
- This surpasses Pop Smoke’s previous record of 21 weeks
- This record follows Lamar and SZA’s “Grand National Tour” becoming the highest-grossing co-headlining tour in history
Kendrick Lamar continues to break records with GNX achieving yet another Billboard chart feat.
The album is now the longest-running No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart at 22 weeks. Dot overtakes the previous record set by the late Pop Smoke, whose posthumous album Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon sat at No. 1 for 21 weeks.
GNX surpassed Travis Scott‘s streaming record for UTOPIA, hitting 2 billion streams in 96 days against UTOPIA’s 114 days. It was also the first hip-hop album to sell one million units in the US this 2025.
The news arrives shortly after Lamar and SZA’s “Grand National Tour” became the highest-grossing joint tour in history. It grossed $254.6 million USD and sold 1.1 million tickets from 23 shows so far, with the duo hitting up Europe, UK and Australia later this year.
