Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is now the longest-charting hip-hop LP in history
By charting at No. 141 this week, it edged ahead of Eminem’s The Eminem Show.
Kendrick Lamar's 2012 LP Good Kid, M.A.A.D City came in at No. 141 on this week's Billboard 200 chart, sandwiched between Lana Del Rey's Born To Die and — may God forgive us — the new Aladdin soundtrack. That's the 358th consecutive week that Lamar's second album has charted, breaking the record for the longest-charting standalone hip-hop album in history. The record was previously held by Eminem's 2012 album, The Eminem Show.
Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits has been on the Billboard 200 for 461 weeks now — it's all the way up at No. 72 this week — but that's a best-of compilation, so it's not a fair fight. Next in Lamar's sights on the all-time list are Imagine Dragons' Night Visions, which just registered its 362nd week on the charts, and AC/DC's 1980 LP Back In Black, which just put up its 375th.
Listen to Good Kid, M.A.A.D City below to remind yourself why it's been on the charts for almost a full seven years.