Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Reaches Gold Status

Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed LP To Pimp A Butterfly has reached its first sales milestone recently pushing past 500,000 copies sold. The LP currently sits at No. 7 on Billboard's albums chart. The feat makes the Compton MC the eighth artist to sell 500,000 records in 2015. It's been five years since that number has been reached this early in the year.

K Dot's sophomore major label LP has received praise from both fans and fellow rappers and this isn't the album's first significant achievement. Upon its premature release, it broke a Spotify streaming record with 9.6 million streams in one day, then turned around and broke its own record the next day with an additional 9.8 million streams. A week after going on sale, the LP landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart moving 363,000 copies and stayed there for consecutive weeks, the first album to do so this year. It was also the first No. 1 album ever with the word "pimp" in the title. The album was dope enough for the New England Patriots' Chandler Jones to push for the TDE rapper to become the team's global ambassador.

TPAB outsold its predecessor, good kid, m.A.A.d City, in seven day sales by 120,000. Good Kid, which was released in October 2012, eventually reached platinum status after eight months on shelves.

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