Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Surpasses Travis Scott’s ‘UTOPIA’ Streaming Record

Kendrick Lamar has one more accolade so as to add to his roster for his extremely profitable GNX album. Whereas 2025 is simply two months in, it’s been a busy yr for the rapper who got here off of 2024 with a rap beef versus Drake that led to the hit diss monitor “Not Like Us.” The track gained him 5 Grammy awards and a efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present the next weekend.

Now, evidently his newest physique of labor has damaged a streaming file beforehand held by Travis Scott . When Scott dropped UTOPIA in July 2023, the track grew to become the quickest rap album to hit two billion streams within the 2020s. It reportedly took the album 114 days on the time. Nonetheless, Lamar’s GNX has surpassed that file, taking on because the quickest rap album to hit the mark with solely 96 days, in response to NFR Podcast.

The Compton rapper continues to rise to the highest, together with his newest tracks “Not Like Us,” “Luther” with SZA, “TV Off” and “Squabble Up” touchdown on the Billboard Scorching 100 within the high 5 positions. Regardless of one-upping Drake within the “Not Like Us” beef, Drake did return to Spotify’s chart, reclaiming his title because the No. 1 artist, whereas Kendrick sits at No. 2. Each stay on the high of the sport and solely time will inform how it will play out sooner or later.