Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s ‘Luther’ Leads Hot 100, Playboi Carti, Chappell Roan & Doechii New in Top 10

“Luther,” on pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, totaled 56.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1% week-over-week), 27.9 million official streams (down 11%) and 3,000 sold (up 12%) in the U.S. March 14-20.

The track holds at its No. 2 high on the Radio Songs chart; slips to No. 3 after four weeks atop Streaming Songs; and rebounds 17-10, after reaching No. 4, on Digital Song Sales.

“Luther” concurrently adds a 13th week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Playboi Carti debuts two songs in the Hot 100’s top five: “Evil J0rdan,” at No. 2, and “Rather Lie,” with The Weeknd, at No. 4. The tracks are from the rapper’s new album, MUSIC, which bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 298,000 equivalent album units, becoming his second leader.

Playboi Carti ups his career total to seven Hot 100 top 10s, and charts concurrent top 10s for the first time. The Weeknd adds his 20th top 10 (becoming the 27th act to reach the milestone in the chart’s 66-year history).

“Evil J0rdan” and “Rather Lie” open with 30.8 million and 26.6 million streams, respectively, with the former also arriving as Playboi Carti’s third Streaming Songs No. 1.

Chappell Roan’s “The Giver” roars onto the Hot 100 at No. 5. Released March 13, it debuts with 22.3 million streams, 2.2 million in radio reach and 6,000 sold March 14-20.

The singer-songwriter scores her third Hot 100 top 10, following “Good Luck, Babe!,” which hit No. 4 last September and “Pink Pony Club,” which reached No. 7 a week ago; it ranks at No. 9 on the latest list. “The Giver” marks her first top 10 (or even top 40) debut.

Given the sonic turn of “The Giver” from Chappell Roan’s budding catalog of pop offerings, the track debuts at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, marking her first appearance on the ranking. (Of the song’s airplay in the tracking week, 20% was from reporters to Billboard’s Country Airplay chart; it debuts at No. 33 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart and is bubbling under Pop Airplay and Country Airplay.) She is just third woman to debut a first Hot Country Songs entry at No. 1, after Beyoncé, with “Texas Hold ‘Em” (2024), and Bebe Rexha, with “Meant To Be,” with Florida Georgia Line (2017). (The latter went on to reign for a record 50 weeks.)

“I have such a special place in my heart for country music,” the Missouri native mused on Instagram March 4. “I grew up listening to it every morning and afternoon on my school bus and had it swirling around me at bonfires, grocery stores and karaoke bars … I am just here to twirl and do a little gay yodel for yall.”

Doechii’s “Anxiety” ascends three spots to No. 10 on the Hot 100, becoming her first top 10. It drew 21.4 million streams (up 4%), 4.8 million in airplay audience (up 479%) and 11,000 downloads sold (up 101%) in the tracking week. It also becomes her first leader (4-1) on Digital Song Sales.

The song by the rapper/singer – who is set to be honored with the 2025 Woman of the Year award at the annual Billboard Women in Music celebration March 29 – was released in 2019. Click here for a deep dive into the song’s history, including Sleepy Hallow’s interpretation featuring Doechii (“A N X I E T Y”), which debuted at its No. 45 Hot 100 high earlier in March.

Notably, “Anxiety” prominently samples Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” (featuring Kimbra), which crowned the Hot 100 for eight weeks in 2012. (That hit drew 5 million streams and 4.9 million in airplay audience in the latest tracking frame.)

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” dips 2-3, following five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in January. It notches a seventh week atop Radio Songs (63.9 million, up 2%).

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” drops 4-6 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July.

Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” rebounds 9-7 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It tops the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 33rd week each.

Plus, Lamar’s “Not Like Us” descends 3-8 on the Hot 100, following three weeks at No. 1 between last May and February.