Kendrick Lamar is off to a rather phenomenal start in the first quarter of the new year. “To Pimp A Butterfly” recently hit Gold status, with over 513,000 copies sold. Only a handful of artists, such as Meghan Trainor, Drake and Taylor Swift, hold the same status, thus far.

Congrats to Kendrick!

via Billboard.com:

“It’s the seventh album to sell 500,000 in 2015 — up from just three at the same time a year ago.”