Good Kid was a strong seller on vinyl throughout 2020, as it finished the year as the No. In the past month, the album has sold 31,000 copies on vinyl. 9, the set races 8-2 (a new peak), while on the Tastemaker Albums chart (which ranks the top-selling albums at indie stores), it vaults 12-2. Good Kid has sold particularly well in recent weeks on vinyl at independent record stores, as well as Target and Walmart, thanks to sale pricing and holiday promotions. Kendrick Lamar: The Story Behind 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' For all chart news, follow and on both Twitter and Instagram. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. Pure album sales were the measurement solely utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. The Album Sales chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Nielsen Music/MRC Data. 9.īillboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. It was last in the top 10 on the chart dated Nov.
2 on the Top Album Sales chart dated Nov. (Overall album sales fell 42.5% for the week, so Good Kid beat the industry decline.)
While the album had a decrease in sales, so did every other carryover album in the top 10, so those sets with the smallest declines actually move up the chart. 31, 2020 (down 32%), according to MRC Data – with vinyl sales comprising effectively all of that sum. Overall, the album sold 8,000 copies in the U.S. The set, released in 2012, surges 23-9 on the chart dated Jan. This is the story of a good kid in a mad city.After eight years, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is back in the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. This is the story of angels on angel dust, the story of the dysfunctional bastards of the Ronald Reagan era. So grab a 40, ignore your voicemails, and borrow your mother’s van if you have to, because we’re going to take a ride down the wicked streets of Compton with King Kendrick Lamar. When an album this significant drops, it’s only right that Complex document its creation. If you think those comparisons are lofty, consider the fact that the people involved in the making of this album compared Kendrick to everyone from Bob Dylan to John Coltrane (no, seriously). The album will surely catapult Kendrick into the upper echelons of rap, where his debut will have to be compared to the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Nas. good kid, m.A.A.d city follows a day in the life of a teenage Kendrick riding around the streets of Compton as he hooks up with a girl, does a house lick, and goes through numerous other misadventures. The artist formerly known as K-Dot has done something that didn’t seem possible in this day and age: He's made an album without any artistic or commercial concessions, an album that speaks for a generation, an album that’s worthy of being called a classic.Īnd it’s not just a collection of masterful records, it’s a conceptual album-a "short film," as the subtitle puts it. And it’s every bit as good we all hoped it would be-and then some. Kendrick Lamar’s major label debut, good kid, m.A.A.d.
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