{"id":4507,"date":"2025-03-10T17:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:41:45","slug":"kendrick-lamar-szas-luther-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-for-third-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4507","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA\u2019s \u2018Luther\u2019 No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 for Third\u00a0Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Lamar ties his longest Hot 100 reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kendrick-lamar\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\/\">SZA<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d leads the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart for a third week.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-number-1-hot-100\/\">Two weeks earlier<\/a>, the single \u2013 whose title is an ode to late R&amp;B icon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/luther-vandross\/\">Luther Vandross<\/a>, who is sampled on the track \u2013 became Lamar\u2019s sixth No. 1 and SZA\u2019s third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamar ties his longest Hot 100 domination. He previously reigned for three nonconsecutive weeks with \u201cNot Like Us\u201d between last May and this February, and for three weeks in a row last April with \u201cLike That,\u201d with Future and Metro Boomin. His other No. 1s ruled for a week each: \u201cSquabble Up,\u201d in December; \u201cHumble.,\u201d in 2017; and Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cBad Blood,\u201d on which he\u2019s featured, in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SZA extends her longest No. 1 Hot 100 stay. She previously led for a week each as featured on Drake\u2019s \u201cSlime You Out\u201d and with her own \u201cKill Bill,\u201d both in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfWLgELllZs?si=3fLLFQSrsBUaJUTf\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Also in the Hot 100\u2019s top 10,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/chappell-roan\/\">Chappell Roan<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPink Pony Club\u201d holds at its No. 8 high, as it becomes her first No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/digital-song-sales\/\">Digital Song Sales<\/a>&nbsp;chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated March 15, 2025) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow, March 11. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4507\" data-postid=\"4507\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4507 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar ties his longest Hot 100 reign. Kendrick Lamar&nbsp;and&nbsp;SZA\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d leads the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart for a third week.&nbsp;Two weeks earlier, the single \u2013 whose title is an ode to late R&amp;B icon&nbsp;Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track \u2013 became Lamar\u2019s sixth No. 1 and SZA\u2019s third. 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