{"id":4555,"date":"2025-04-14T17:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T17:57:05","slug":"kendrick-lamar-szas-luther-rules-hot-100-for-eighth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4555","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA\u2019s \u2018Luther\u2019 Rules Hot 100 for Eighth Week"},"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>BigXthaPlug, with &#8220;All the Way,&#8221; and Warren, with &#8220;Ordinary,&#8221; are the first acts to notch initial top 10s this year.<\/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 an eighth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title celebrates late R&amp;B legend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/luther-vandross\/\">Luther Vandross<\/a>, who is sampled on the track,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-number-1-hot-100\/\">became<\/a>&nbsp;Lamar\u2019s sixth No. 1 and SZA\u2019s third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cLuther\u201d ties 24kGoldn\u2019s \u201cMood\u201d (featuring iann dior), which led for eight weeks in 2020-21, for the second-longest Hot 100 command among rap hits this decade, after Roddy Ricch\u2019s \u201cThe Box,\u201d which dominated for 11 weeks in 2020. (Rap titles are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/rap-song\/\">Hot Rap Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNY_2TEmzho?si=z6i8WIdMBp9MsMid\" 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,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/drake\/\">Drake<\/a>\u2019s \u201cNokia\u201d rises 3-2 on the Hot 100 following the first full tracking week after its official video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/drake-nokia-music-video-1235936497\/\">premiered<\/a>\u00a0March 31, and two songs enter the top 10:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bigxthaplug\/\">BigXthaPlug<\/a>\u2019s \u201cAll the Way,\u201d featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bailey-zimmerman\/\">Bailey Zimmerman<\/a>, debuts at No. 4 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/alex-warren\/\">Alex Warren<\/a>\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d bounds 14-7. BigXthaPlug and Warren each earn their first top 10s, marking the first acts to reach the tier for the first time in 2025, while Zimmerman adds his second.<\/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 April 19, 2025) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;tomorrow, April 15. 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-4555\" data-postid=\"4555\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4555 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigXthaPlug, with &#8220;All the Way,&#8221; and Warren, with &#8220;Ordinary,&#8221; are the first acts to notch initial top 10s this year. Kendrick Lamar&nbsp;and&nbsp;SZA\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d leads the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart for an eighth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title celebrates late R&amp;B legend&nbsp;Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track,&nbsp;became&nbsp;Lamar\u2019s sixth No. 1 and SZA\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4556,"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-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Kendrick-Lamar-SZA-luther-screenshot-2025-billboard-1548.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}