Billboard ranks Kendrick Lamar #1 greatest pop star of 2024 for having one of the most dominant years in music history

[Stick Up Kid]

Gnx even platinum yet? Taylor swift sold like 3 million albums in a day and had a record breaking world wide tour ? Whats the criteria ?

What was historic about it? His album sold 300k first week

That ETHER still burning Drake stans 6 months later

 

[Da_Eggman]

The biggest and smallest pop star in the world don’t ask me how

 

[Malcy86]

Most decorated discography and soon will become best selling artist...hip hop is well and alive

It's alive and well because it was a strong year overall. Common, LL, Cube, Redman, Talib Kweli, Rakim, RBX and more all released great projects.

 

[PatCake]

Gnx even platinum yet? Taylor swift sold like 3 million albums in a day and had a record breaking world wide tour ? Whats the criteria ?

What was historic about it? His album sold 300k first week

And I can't name one song from her shytty bubblegum music

 

[Ike omad]

Craziest part is this nikka doing it on his own terms. Shout out for not compromising

 

[Monoblock]

Damn Drake aint even make the top 10?

 

[Pure Water]

Not a fan thats all part of the reason are the questions I asked in my first post just seems like his stans use different criteria to bend to kendrick favor when needed

That's a publication, not a stan. I'm positive the website answers your questions..

 

[tehparadox]

First rapper since outkast to combine massive critical acclaim and great commercial success

 

[Plankton]

I cant help but to remember a time in Hip Hop when Dr Dre was against 'rapping for the pop charts' and EPMD had the song "Crossover" which was against aiming for the pop charts and now we have a rapper of Kendricks caliber who back in the day would never want to be associated with pop. Kendrick is a branch of that Native Tongue lineage and it was Q Tip who said "Rap is not pop" yet this era is far removed from that thinking because not 1 person has brought that past way of thinking up.

 

[up in here]

Gnx even platinum yet? Taylor swift sold like 3 million albums in a day and had a record breaking world wide tour ? Whats the criteria ?

What was historic about it? His album sold 300k first week

Is GNX is the only thing Kendrick did this year?

 

[derro13]

I cant help but to remember a time in Hip Hop when Dr Dre was against 'rapping for the pop charts' and EPMD had the song "Crossover" which was against aiming for the pop charts and now we have a rapper of Kendricks caliber who back in the day would never want to be associated with pop. Kendrick is a branch of that Native Tongue lineage and it was Q Tip who said "Rap is not pop" yet this era is far removed from that thinking because not 1 person has brought that past way of thinking up.

The difference is this time a rapper managed to get that title because his popularity was undeniable. Rap is still not pop, but when rap is THIS popular, you can't ignore it.

 

[Revolutionary]

 

[satam55]

300k with no physical release, purely off streaming and with only 12 tracks. We have never seen that before. It's also one of the only albums in recent time to still move 100k per week, a month later. It's even more impressive considering the industry thought it would never happen for an album with less than 15 songs.

Billboard already said the more tracks = the more streams = the more sales. These kendrick numbers are impressive. On top of that, he's the artist with the most #1 songs this year; and the album had the entire top 5 of the billboard on lock.

Doing that during Xmas season too...

In the streaming era, it's the norm for the physical album release to come weeks after the digital release. You nikkas giving Kendrick credit for this don't know WTF you're talking about.

 

[BobbyWojak]

In the streaming era, it's the norm for the physical album release to come weeks after the digital release. You nikkas giving Kendrick credit for this don't know WTF you're talking about.

I'm wondering why we even give a fukk about what Billboard has to say.

 

[Plankton]

The difference is this time a rapper managed to get that title because his popularity was undeniable. Rap is still not pop, but when rap is THIS popular, you can't ignore it.

There really is no difference because when Q Tip said that line he was talking to MC Hammer and Hammer was everything that you just described.