Kendrick Lamar ties Drake as one of few artists to claim the entire top five on the Billboard Hot 100, days after Drake took their months-long rap beef to court.

Kendrick Lamar will likely never be hated by another artist as much as he’s hated by Drake, but Shaboozey does have good reason to be a little peeved at him today. The Virginia-based artist was on track for a record-breaking run with his countrified J-Kown interpolation,

On Sunday (Dec. 1), it was revealed that Kendrick Lamar’s surprise drop, GNX, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, making it his fifth consecutive chart-topping album. According to Billboard, the Compton emcee’s latest effort is now the sixth-largest opening week of 2024.

Kendrick Lamar dominates Billboard's Top Albums and Top Song charts with his album 'GNX' and the hit single "squabble up."

Kendrick Lamar 's new GNX album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart scoring the second biggest debut for a rap album in 2024.

For the past few weeks now, all eyes have been on Shaboozey and “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” to see if the track would beat the all-time record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Last week, Shaboozey tied the record. The Virginia artist’s out-of-nowhere crossover-country smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spent its 19th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. That’s the same span of time that Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus spent at #1 when “Old Town Road” went supernova in 2019,