Kendrick Lamar’s First-Week Sales Projections Take Slight Dip

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

Top Dawg Entertainment artist Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is still en route to dismantle its competition on the sales chart next week despite a minor dip in projections.

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Based on weekend estimates, the LP should still sell at least 300,000 copies in its first week.

Kendrick Lamar will top next week’s albums and SPS charts with the year’s second-largest debut, behind only Drake. This will be the 10th album this year to debut over 100k. By this time last year, only four albums had hit six figures. Here’s how it looks in Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) and albums as we head into the weekend:

*Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) 340-365k SPS (300-325k albums)
Empire ST (Twentieth Century Fox/Columbia) 80-85k SPS (60-65k albums) (HITS Daily Double)

Check out the initial projections on the next page…

First-day estimates had the album selling up to 375,000 copies.

Physical copies of Kendrick Lamar’s How to Pimp a Butterfly are just now arriving in many stores, making today’s projections somewhat tenuous; those projections are likely to grow throughout the week. Here are this week’s key debuts, with both Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) numbers first, followed by albums:

Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) 350-375k SPS (300-325k albums)
Modest Mouse (Epic) 70-7k SPS (65-70k albums) (HITS Daily Double)

G.O.O.D. Music head Kanye West, Pusha T and rap veteran Bun B took to their Twitter pages to applaud K. Dot’s newest solo offering this week.

Various musicians boasted about K. Dot’s new LP on Twitter Monday (March 16).


https://twitter.com/solangeknowles/status/577505275306852352


https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/577353751671017472

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

SOHH.com Writer. When I'm not covering hip-hop news and announcements, I'm deep into an Audible book and eating veggies.

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  1. I guess people actually heard it, like, “Oh… this is the album? I ain’t buyin that sht!” #nohate #therevolutionwilnotbeSpotified

  2. Good nigga is overated and i heard some of the songs on this album and they are straight trash!

    • Seriously this guy can rap but he’s not the second coming of pac. Overrated it’s annoying

        • Everything about Lupe sounds so contrived, the fake outrage, the way he tries to show off with his rhymes

        • Initially I believed that and even though “Mural” is probably better lyrically than anything we will hear the rest of the year TPAB is a better package. The Message is important. Even though people attempt to downplay it or say “All he being all preachy and shit”. I have a younger Brother who loves Kendrick. I’m glad he chose this wisely. I taught him well:)

    • I think he’s perfectly rated. Most people think he’s a great rapper and one of the best mainstream rappers out.

  3. The fuck are y’all talking about? He just dropped the most honest, rawest album about black suppression ever and it is an instant classic. Just because it doesn’t have banging beats or talk about money,ho’s,cars and clothes doesn’t mean shit. To me its y’all simple minded fucks that are responsible for killin the rap game point blank period. If you’re gonna sit there and tell me that section 80. GKMC or TPABF isn’t better than more than half of the lame ass bullshit being put out nowadays then you can suck my dick!

  4. People expected album to drop Tuesday. That’s when I’m buying it. Besides I won’t be surprised if numbers spike up next week, and they fucked up taking the album off of iTunes when it first leaked because mad niggas would’ve brought it just everybody was talking about it at the moment.

    • Album was never taken off iTunes. And if it was you could still buy on Google play. It has some good songs but overall it’s overrated

  5. I like Kendrick’s Music, But his Ferguson comments turned me off. I can’t buy his music in good conscience.

  6. Hiphop fans are too critical it would have been good for rap if he went platinum in the first week but since you crab in the bucket nuggus exist it won’t happen.

  7. I find this nigga boring at times PERSONALLY but still recognize his talent. All you idiots in the comment section saying he’s “overrated” sound dumb as fuck. There isn’t a better mainstream young lyricist than this guy. He made another classic critically acclaimed album when none of his peers his age even have one. Give him his props.

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