Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' climbed back up to the top of Billboard's albums chart this week after Lamar performed at the Super Bowl LIX Halftime show.

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.

Kendrick Lamar’s GNX is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and to no surprise, the Super Bowl LIX halftime show helped a lot. According to the publication, the Compton rapper’s surprise sixth album moved an impressive 236,

Upon closer investigation, there are a few giveaways that tell us the Buick GNX in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance was not an authentic Buick GNX.

A very special car made an appearance during the Super Bowl halftime show performance on Sunday night, with Kendrick Lamar taking a victory lap for his rap battle with Canadian rapper Drake in a 1987 Buick GNX.

When Kendrick Lamar took center stage at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show, his entrance wasn’t just about spectacle, it was a statement. Squatting on the hood of a 1987 Buick GNX, Lamar transformed a rare 1980s muscle car into a symbol of personal and artistic significance.

The Super Bowl LIX half time show opened with Kendrick Lamar standing on the hood of a Buick GNX. See details and photos of the featured black super bowl car.

Announced shortly after the album's surprise release, the vinyl arrives just days before Lamar takes the stage at the Halftime show

Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hop’s most venerated artists for the past decade, performed “Not Like Us,” a diss track aimed at Drake, to cap the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, the first to be headlined by a solo rapper.

"Send Colin Kaepernick a bundt cake and a six-pack of beer and a thank-you note," he added, crediting the former NFL player's famous kneeling moment for getting the rapper the gig.