Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Is The Most Popular Album Of The Year So Far

The album tops Nielsen’s mid-year list with 1.77 million equivalent album units.

July 05, 2017
Kendrick Lamar’s <i>DAMN.</i> Is The Most Popular Album Of The Year So Far Kendrick Lamar at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, April 23, 2017.   Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. album is at the top of Nielsen Music's mid-year chart, Billboard reports. DAMN. debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart in April and earned the largest sales week for an album this year. Since its release on April 14, DAMN. has moved 1.77 million equivalent album units.

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Drake's More Life landed at No. 3 on the mid-year chart with 1,693,000 equivalent album units. Migos's Culture, The Weeknd's Starboy, and Future's self-titled album ended up at the No. 5, No. 6, and No. 8 spots, respectively.

Elsewhere on the mid-year chart, Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" is at the No. 1 spot on the top selling digital songs, on-demand song streams, on-demand audio streams, and the on-demand video streams chart.

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See the full Nielsen mid-year chart report here.

Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Is The Most Popular Album Of The Year So Far