one’s in a less-than-12-month time frame, according to Billboard, which mentions Drake ( If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive) and Future ( DS2, WATTBA, Evol) as the others. The uu numbers aren’t as high as those for TPAB, which had nearly double in both categories, but that doesn’t make this chart-topper any less impressive: It puts Lamar in special company as only the third artist since last January to land multiple No. 1 on the 200, and it came in less than a year ( To Pimp A Butterfly dropped March 16, 2015).

ago MixedByAli has said this about unreleased/scrapped albums.

ago Scrapped Thought it was delayed deleted 2 yr. Wish we would get something similar for the album that was scrapped in 2019. The March 4 release claimed the top spot with 178,000 units (142,000 in pure album sales) in its first week, according to Nielsen, toppling the likes of Adele (61,000 units), Rihanna (58,000), and Bieber (53,000). Untitled 2 is one of Kendrick's greatest songs.

is giving fans another reason to call him king, as Billboard reports the surprise album debuted at No.

Kendrick untitled unmastered 2