Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers album has collected yet another accolade, becoming the first rap album in 2022 to cross one billion streams on Spotify.

Chart Data announced the achievement on Tuesday (August 30). The only project to match Kendrick’s streaming output in the R&B realm is The Weeknd’s Dawn FM, which hit a billion streams in March and then surpassed two billion streams earlier this month.

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers has been powered on Spotify by top tracks like “N95” (128,570,543 global streams), “Die Hard” (99,497,158 global streams), and “Rich Spirit” (47,780,629 global streams).

Chart Data also noted that K. Dot’s fifth studio album has sold over 500,000 units, but it is yet to be certified gold by the RIAA. The project should be eligible for platinum certification by the end of 2022.

Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in May with 295,000 total album-equivalent units sold in the first week.

.@kendricklamar‘s ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’ has now surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify.

— chart data (@chartdata) August 30, 2022

Kendrick Lamar is continuing his trek across North America for The Big Steppers Tour with his cousin Baby Keem. The tour invades the West Coast with a pair of shows in Oakland this week.

LeBron James even pulled up to the Vancouver tour date over the weekend and footage of the four-time NBA champion went viral with King James going crazy in the crowd.

“Vancouver!! Thank you for the hospitality over the weekend,” LeBron tweeted. “1st time in your beautiful, wonderful city! @kendricklamar you’re 1 of a kind my brother! SPECIAL show by a SPECIAL person! Appreciate the love!”

Other footage from the concert shows the 6’8” James dancing by himself in the back of general admission, surrounded by security as Kendrick and Baby Keem performed “Family Ties.”

In other K. Dot news, the former TDE rapper is already working on his sixth studio album, according to one of his go-to producers.

Sounwave — who has production on 13 out of the 16 songs on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers — recently told Complex work has already started on the rapper’s next LP. Kendrick’s latest album dropped less than three months ago, but Sounwave says they always move straight onto the next project, which has been the way they’ve worked since 2009.

“Oh, we always start, immediately after,” he revealed. “Like, we’re starting on the next one now. That’s never going to change, all the way from the Kendrick Lamar EP. The next day, we started on Section.80. It’s just the ideas never stopped. That’s one of the main reasons I go on tour with him, is to create the next album.

“We can’t skip a beat. We have to just keep it going. There’s no breaks. There’s no such thing as a vacation when you’re doing what you love. Everything you do is what you love to do, so you’re excited.”