{"id":4520,"date":"2025-03-18T05:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2025-03-18T05:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:12:22","slug":"kendrick-lamar-claims-career-best-fourth-week-atop-hot-100-with-luther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Claims Career-Best Fourth Week Atop Hot 100 with\u00a0\u2018Luther\u2019"},"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&#8217;s &#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; and &#8220;Like That&#8221; each led for three weeks. Meanwhile, &#8220;Luther&#8221; co-lead SZA extends her longest 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 tops the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart for a fourth week.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-number-1-hot-100\/\">Three weeks earlier<\/a>, the single \u2013 whose title is an tribute 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 rewrites 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 led 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 topped the chart 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=VXDTlEbkpneuG-Ny\" 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>Plus, Lamar logs three songs in the Hot 100\u2019s top five for a sixth week, as \u201cNot Like Us\u201d holds at No. 3 and \u201cTV Off,\u201d featuring Lefty Gunplay, dips 4-5. He ties Drake for the most weeks tripling up in the top five among soloists all-time; overall, only The Beatles have more (eight).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Browse the full rundown of this week\u2019s top 10 below.<\/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 22, 2025) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow, March 18. 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-4520\" data-postid=\"4520\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4520 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar&#8217;s &#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; and &#8220;Like That&#8221; each led for three weeks. Meanwhile, &#8220;Luther&#8221; co-lead SZA extends her longest reign. Kendrick Lamar&nbsp;and&nbsp;SZA\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d tops the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart for a fourth week.&nbsp;Three weeks earlier, the single \u2013 whose title is an tribute to late R&amp;B icon&nbsp;Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track \u2013 became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-now","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","no-post-comment","no-post-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}