Kendrick Lamar scores U.S. chart double after Coachella success

Kendrick Lamar has scored a chart double in America a day after his new album, Damn, landed the biggest sales week of the year.
The rapper’s new hit Humble has ended Ed Sheeran’s 12-week reign at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with Shape of You.
It’s Kendrick’s second Hot 100 number one, but his first as a lead artist – he topped the chart in June, 2015 with his Taylor Swift collaboration Bad Blood.
His latest success comes a day after he closed out this year’s (17) Coachella festival in California, hours after DAMN shot to the top of the U.S. albums countdown.
A second track from the number one album, DNA, debuts at four on the new chart.
Sheeran’s Shape of You drops to two, and Bruno Mars’ That’s What I Like also falls a spot to three, while another Coachella favourite, rapper Future, rounds out the new top five with Mask Off.
And Alessia Cara ends a historical top 10 drought for female artists – no women featured in last week’s Hot 100. That might not seem like a big deal, but the last time the top 10 was female-free was over three decades ago.
Stay, Cara’s new track with DJ Zedd, vaults into the top 10 at seven.