{"id":4563,"date":"2025-04-28T17:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:34:39","slug":"kendrick-lamar-szas-luther-leads-hot-100-for-landmark-10th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA\u2019s \u2018Luther\u2019 Leads Hot 100 for Landmark 10th\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>Plus, Morgan Wallen and Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Coming Back&#8221; debuts at No. 8.<\/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 milestone 10th total and consecutive week. The single, whose title honors late R&amp;B great&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/luther-vandross\/\">Luther Vandross<\/a>, who is sampled on it,&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>An elite 4% of all Hot 100 No. 1s (46 of 1,179, dating to the chart\u2019s Aug. 4, 1958, start) have ruled for double-digit weeks. Of those, \u201cLuther\u201d is the first by a solo man and woman and no accompanying acts \u2013 surpassing the nine-week reign of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie\u2019s \u201cEndless Love\u201d in 1981. (Among other 10-plus-week No. 1s by co-billed lead male and female acts, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans\u2019 \u201cI\u2019ll Be Missing You\u201d \u2014 featuring vocal group 112 \u2014 led for 11 weeks in 1997 and Mariah Carey and then-quartet Boyz II Men\u2019s \u201cOne Sweet Day\u201d dominated for 16 weeks in 1995-96.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNY_2TEmzho?si=I2CwBxxc5IeJ1bhu\" 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,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/alex-warren\/\">Alex Warren<\/a>\u2019s first Hot 100 top 10, \u201cOrdinary,\u201d hits a new high (5-3), and reaches No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/streaming-songs\">Streaming Songs<\/a>&nbsp;chart, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/post-malone\/\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s \u201cI Ain\u2019t Coming Back\u201d debuts at No. 8 on the Hot 100, becoming their 15th and 14th top 10, respectively. It\u2019s the sixth top 10 from Wallen\u2019s album&nbsp;<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 all ahead of its May 16 release, as he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-hot-100-number-one-sixth-week\/wallens-record-5th-pre-album-release-top-10\/\">extends his record<\/a>&nbsp;for the most top 10s from an album prior to its arrival.<\/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 May 3, 2025) will update on&nbsp;Billboard.com&nbsp;Tuesday, April 29. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4563\" data-postid=\"4563\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4563 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Morgan Wallen and Post Malone&#8217;s &#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Coming Back&#8221; debuts at No. 8. Kendrick Lamar&nbsp;and&nbsp;SZA\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d tops the&nbsp;Billboard Hot 100&nbsp;songs chart for a milestone 10th total and consecutive week. The single, whose title honors late R&amp;B great&nbsp;Luther Vandross, who is sampled on it,&nbsp;became&nbsp;Lamar\u2019s sixth No. 1 and SZA\u2019s third. 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