Kendrick Lamar has retained his status as the king of the Billboard 200. The 14-time Grammy-winning rapper’s newest album, “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,” landed in the No. 1 spot in its first week of release on the Billboard charts, with the equivalent of 295,500 sales. According to the Luminate music tracking service (formerly known as MRC Data), the eagerly anticipated opus amassed 343 million clicks on streaming services. Marking the 34-year-old Compton native’s fourth consecutive No. 1 album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” also had the largest number of first week sales of 2022. Relea…