The previously mentioned Damn, peaked inside the Top 3 in Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, and Switzerland, solidifying Kendrick Lamar as a major global act.Īs usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to relevantly gauge his results. While Lamar‘s global popularity was growing by the day, it wasn’t until his fourth studio album that he managed to expand his fan base outside the English speaking world.
The album peaked at the top spot in the major English speaking countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and his native, the United States. Lamar found international success with his third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, released in 2015. The album was so popular it ended up being 2018’s 53rd biggest album in terms of overall consumption, nearly a decade after its release! Now signed to a major record label, Lamar‘s second studio album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, sold over 2.3 million copies in the United States alone – simply an outstanding result for a hip hop artist in the 2010s. In 2011, the rising rapper independently released his debut studio album, Section.80, although he wouldn’t truly find success until about a year later. Morale & The Big Steppers, an album already critically acclaimed as its predecessors. His latest album, Damn, issued in 2017, is comfortably inside the Top 10 most successful albums from its year.Īfter a long hiatus, he is back with Mr. In r ecent years, Kendrick Lamar has become one of the most popular artists in the world.
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