A little over a week ago, Kendrick Lamar surprised the world with his new album untitled unmastered. A project that consisted of songs recorded during the recording process of his GRAMMY Award winning album To Pimp A Butterfly. The album has now given the Compton rapper his second number one album in less than a year, being just the third artist to do that — Drake and Future are the other two artists. untitled unmastered. is reported to have sold 178,000 equivalent album units, 142k of those being pure album sales, for the week ending in March 10, according to Nielsen Music. We expect Kendrick’s new album to move plenty more units as untitled unmastered. was released through retail this past week.
OS REWIND: Kendrick Lamar is Releasing Physical Copies of ‘Untitled Unmastered’ This Week
OS REWIND: Putting the Pieces Together on Kendrick Lamar’s ‘untitled unmastered.’