You'll Never Guess What New Record Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly" Just Set

Top Dawg Entertainment rapper Kendrick Lamar's new To Pimp a Butterfly album is reportedly the first LP to top the charts with the word "pimp" in its title.

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According to reports, K. Dot stands alone with the first album to topple its competition with “pimp” in the title.

According to Billboard, Kendrick’s latest set is the first album with “pimp” in its title to be No. 1 on the charts. Previously, the highest charting album was Pimp C’s Pimpalation, which landed at No. 3 in 2006. Other albums with “pimp” in its name worth mentioning are Too $hort‘s Shorty the Pimp (No. 6 in 1992), JT Money‘s Pimpin On Wax (No. 28 in 1999) and Dirty’s Keep It Pimp & Gangsta (No. 63 in 2003). (Complex)

Check out how many albums K. Dot sold in his first week on the next page…

Lamar’s new album is set to remain at number one on the sales chart next week

Kendrick Lamar will repeat at #1 next week with a total that should be north of 100k on both our SPS and Sales charts. Here are this week’s key debuts:

Kidz Bop Kids (Razor & Tie) 40-45k SPS/35-40k Albums
Action Bronson (Atlantic) 37-42k/40-45k
Earl Sweatshirt (Columbia) 30-35k/28-32k (HITS Daily Double)

After a surprise release last week, Lamar’s new LP sold just over 360,000 copies.

The album — which was initially slated to bow on March 27 but was pushed forward to a March 16 release — starts with 363,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending March 22, according to Nielsen Music. Lamar’s last album, 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city, debuted and peaked at No. 2, selling 241,000 copies. (Billboard)

According to reports, K. Dot’s To Pimp a Butterfly is resting atop its competition on the United Kingdom sales chart.

U.S. rapper Kendrick Lamar scored his first British number one album on Sunday when his “To Pimp A Butterfly” knocked Sam Smith‘s “In the Lonely Hours” off the top spot in its first week of release, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday. Lamar’s follow-up to his 2012 debut had already broken global records for music streaming service Spotify when it was streamed more than 9.6 million times on the service on Monday. (Reuters)