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Kendrick Lamar
Solo artist Compton United States
Kendrick Lamar is an artist from Compton. Kendrick Lamar has 72 chart appearances on 31 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “King Kunta”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #2. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Kendrick Lamar most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 22 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton in 1987, and he has spent his career turning that city into a landscape as vivid as any novelist's. He started out as K.Dot in high school, signed with Top Dawg Entertainment, co-founded the crew Black Hippy, and his debut, Section.80, won him a joint deal with Dr. Dre's Aftermath and Interscope.
good kid, m.A.A.d city in 2012 made him a star, a gangsta rap-tinged concept album told with a filmmaker's eye, carried by "Swimming Pools (Drank)" and the long, searching "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst". No hip-hop studio album has ever stayed on the Billboard 200 longer. To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015 went further, steeping his conscious, introspective rhymes in jazz, funk and soul: the strutting "King Kunta", the hopeful chant of "Alright", the upbeat "i" and the heady "Wesley's Theory". It was the first of 5 straight albums to top the Billboard 200.
DAMN. followed in 2017 with "HUMBLE." and "DNA.", and in 2018 the Pulitzer Prize for Music went to a musician from outside classical and jazz for the first time: him. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, with "N95", turned inward and closed out his time with Top Dawg and Aftermath. Then came his feud with Drake and GNX in 2024: "Not Like Us" won 5 Grammys, including Song and Record of the Year, and "Luther" and "tv off" kept him everywhere.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kendrick Lamar on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King Kunta | 11 | #2 | – | 2015 | |
| 2 | Alright | 9 | #37 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | HUMBLE. | 8 | #1 | 1 | 2017 | |
| 4 | Not Like Us | 4 | #8 | – | 2024 | |
| 5 | i | 6 | #36 | – | 2014 | |
| 6 | All The Stars | 4 | #28 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | tv off | 4 | #2 | – | 2025 | |
| 8 | Wesley's Theory | 2 | #123 | – | – | |
| 9 | DNA. | 5 | #34 | – | 2017 | |
| 10 | N95 | 3 | #23 | – | 2022 | |
| 11 | Luther | 2 | #46 | – | 2025 | |
| 12 | Swimming Pools (Drank) | 2 | #60 | – | 2012 | |
| 13 | Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst | 1 | #366 | – | – | |
| 14 | The Heart Part 5 | 2 | #67 | – | 2022 | |
| 15 | Money Trees | 1 | #533 | – | – | |
| 16 | untitled 06 06.30.2014 | 1 | #64 | – | 2016 | |
| 17 | M.A.A.D CITY | 2 | #92 | – | – | |
| 18 | Purple Hearts | 1 | #78 | – | 2022 | |
| 19 | Euphoria | 1 | #90 | – | 2024 | |
| 20 | The Blacker The Berry | 1 | #802 | – | – | |
| 21 | Love | 1 | #92 | – | 2017 | |
| 22 | Loyalty | 1 | #97 | – | 2017 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Kendrick Lamar as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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