Following the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show (Feb. 9), headliner Kendrick Lamar sees his GNX album return to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second nonconsecutive week (rising 4-1 on the Feb. 22-dated chart), while his special guest SZA climbs 3-2 with her former leader SOS.
With Lamar and SZA at Nos. 1 and 2, it marks the first time two performers from the year’s Super Bowl halftime show have been Nos. 1 and 2 in the wake of the show.
Both GNX and SOS had additional fuel firing up their increases on the latest chart, beyond the halftime show. On Feb. 7, GNX was issued on physical formats for the first time (sparking Lamar’s biggest sales week since 2017). SOS was reissued on Feb. 9 with four additional bonus tracks.
The latest Billboard 200 chart reflects activity generated in the U.S. in the tracking week Feb. 7-13. The Feb. 22-dated Billboard 200 will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Feb. 19, one day later than usual, owed to the Presidents’ Day holiday in the U.S. on Feb. 17.
Additionally, before Lamar, the last Super Bowl halftime performer to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the immediate wake of their performance was Justin Timberlake in 2018, when his Man of the Woods album debuted atop the chart dated Feb. 17. The set was released on Feb. 2, 2018 — two days before he headlined Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4 in Minneapolis. (The Feb. 17, 2018-dated Billboard 200 captured album activity in the tracking week of Feb. 2-8.)
In Lamar’s halftime show, he was joined by SZA for a pair of songs: “Luther” (from GNX) and “All the Stars” (from 2018’s Black Panther soundtrack).
The halftime show also doubled as a preview of Lamar and SZA’s co-headlining stadium tour, the Grand National Tour, which is slated to begin on April 19 in Minneapolis. It will continue through the U.S. and Canada until July, when it moves to Europe. The trek is scheduled to wrap on Aug. 9 in Stockholm.