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Kendrick Lamar Returns To No. 1 With DAMN.

The rapper displaces Arcade Fire at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.

August 14, 2017

Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. is the No. 1 album in the country once again. The album returned to the top of the Billboard 200 for the week dated, knocking Arcade Fire's Everything Now off the top spot in the process. The double platinum album was last at the summit 13 weeks ago on May 20.

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As Billboard notes, DAMN.'s sales of 47,000 units is the second lowest weekly total for a No. 1 album in three years. Only the soundtrack to 2014 George Clooney movie The Descendents has hit the top spot with a lower sales figures.

The rest of the top ten is completed by albums from Brett Eldredge, DJ Khaled, Meek Mill, Now 63, 21 Savage, Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, SZA, and Khalid.

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Kendrick Lamar is currently on the DAMN. tour across north America. Guests on the tour so far have included J. Cole and Chance The Rapper.