The highest first-week sales from a 2022 album is not from the ”2000s pop samples” heavy, college dorm rap filled Jack Harlow album, nor the R&B and melodic rap-laden Future album, isn’t it surprising? Kendrick Lamar Duckworth disappears for four years and returns with the highest first-week sales of the year.
Mr. Morale and the BigSteppers just debuted on the Billboard Hot 200 and smashed all the predictions critics and fans alike had for the album, commercially
Kendrick just landed his fourth No.1 album on the Hot 200 with sales of 295,000 equivalent album units in the first week of review, debuting atop the coveted chart.
With over 70k units more than Future’s ‘I Never Liked You, ‘Mr. Morale‘ is the highest album debut since Adele’s ’30’ debuted with 839,000 units in late November 2021.
