

2 a week ago when Paul McCartney’s McCartney III opened at No. 1 for its second total week atop the tally, with 26,000 copies sold (down 74%). In total, since its release, Good Kid has sold 1.98 million copies on CD, vinyl LP and digital download, with 341,000 of that sum on vinyl.Įlsewhere on Top Album Sales, Taylor Swift’s Evermore jumps back to No. 10 biggest-selling vinyl release (117,000 sold) and the top-selling rap album of the year on vinyl. 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. 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.
