Kendrick Lamar Announces 2022 Dates for 'Big Steppers Tour'

Kendrick Lamar‘s new album ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ has hit the top spot in the US Billboard album charts, with the biggest first-week sales in 2022 so far.The album was released on May 13, and narrowly missed out on the UK Number One album to Florence + The Machine‘s ‘Dance Fever’ after a heated chart battle.In the US, ‘Mr.

Thania Garcia Kendrick Lamar had the biggest debut of any album so far this year with “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” his first album in five years and his fourth to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.The truly long-awaited release came in hot with 295,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S.

Kendrick Lamar’s new album has soared to the top of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. 

Kendrick Lamar earns his first ever Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.

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Kendrick Lamar fans flooded the Ticketmaster website this week following the pre-sale launch of his tour. Thousands jointed the Ticketmaster queues for a chance to see the American rapper later this year.

Florence + The Machine and Kendrick Lamar are battling it out for this week’s Number One album in the UK.Florence Welch’s band’s fifth studio album ‘Dance Fever’ is currently ahead of Lamar’s ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’ after clocking up over 26,000 chart sales so far in the midweek album chart, according to the Official Charts Company.The Black Keys are not far behind at Number Three with their new LP with ‘Dropout Boogie’ and Bear’s Den are currently at Number Four with ‘Blue Hours’.If Florence + The Machine do go to Number One it’ll be their fourth chart topper after 2009 debut ‘Lungs’ follow up ‘Ceremonials’ and 2015’s ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’.Reviewing the record, NME awarded it four stars and described it as “the triumphant sound of a singer reborn”.If Lamar scores this week’s Number One album, it will be his first since 2015’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’. His current record ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’ his first in five years, was awarded a whopping five stars by NME and was described as a “cathartic, soul-bearing autobiography”.Welch also received a writing credit on the record for the song ‘We Cry Together’ for its use of a Florence + The Machine sample.Elsewhere, in the UK singles chart, Sam Ryder has climbed up to Number Three following his success in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer“I’ve been going through something.”These are the first words that Kendrick Lamar speaks on “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” and if the 19 songs that follow over the next 72 minutes are any indication, it’s quite an understatement. In the five years since he last released a proper album, 2017’s best-rapper-alive declaration “Damn,” Lamar became the first hip-hop artist to win the Pulitzer Prize, earned an Oscar nomination, launched a media company, performed at the Super Bowl, and announced his departure from TDE, the tight-knit label that has been his home and a key part of his identity since the very beginning.But “Mr.

Kendrick Lamar keeps the buzz going for his latest album with the release of a stunning new video for standout track ‘N95’ – watch it below.The rapper dropped his fifth album ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ on Friday (May 13), arriving five years after the release of his last studio LP, 2017’s ‘DAMN.’.Earlier this week Kendrick shared a video using deepfake technology to accompany the fifth instalment in his long-running ‘The Heart’ series, and now he’s back with another impressive set of visuals.Directed by Kendrick and longtime business partner Dave Free, there’s a lot to unpack in the video for ‘N95’.

Kendrick Lamar surprised fans on Saturday by dropping the first visual for his upcoming album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.

Kendrick Lamar has released his long-awaited new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and, as ever with the Compton rapper, there is a lot to unpack. Much of the intrigue around an album of this stature is just who Lamar would choose to work with on the follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize–winning 2017 full-length Damn.

Kendrick Lamar released Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, his fifth studio album and first multi-track project in half a decade, Friday at midnight. And today, he's announced a five-month, international journey to promote the record, with support from Baby Keem and Tanna Leone.

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Kendrick Lamar has announced a huge 2022 world tour including a series of UK dates.The rapper, who released his new album ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ today (May 13), is set to hit the road with Baby Keem and Tanna Leone in support of the record.The jaunt will kick off with a raft of dates in the US on July 19 before reaching European and UK shores in October and November, which include two shows at The O2 in London on November 7-8.Tickets go on general sale at 12pm local time in the US on May 20 while pre-sale tickets will go on sale the day before (May 19) at 10am local time through the Cash App.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust hours after Kendrick Lamar dropped his long-awaited fifth full-length album, “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,” he’s unveiled dates for a massive tour in support of the album, launching in Oklahoma on July 19 and wrapping in New Zealand five months later.

Kendrick Lamar has shared his surprise fifth studio LP, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. The 18-track project features Sampha, Blxst, Baby Keem, Kodak Black, Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, and more.

Kendrick Lamar has officially released his fifth studio album, ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’.It’s a lengthy affair, spanning 73 minutes of heady, jazz-tinged hip-hop with rapping that, in true Kendrick style, oscillates between soulful and explosive.

Kendrick Lamar just dropped the cover art for his upcoming album, . But, that's not the only thing he dropped.

Kendrick Lamar has revealed the cover art for ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’.Like the artwork for its predecessor, 2017’s Pulitzer-winning ‘DAMN.’, the new cover has Lamar featured front-and-centre with a blank expression.