Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s ‘Luther’ Leads Hot 100 for Landmark 10th Week

“Luther,” on pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, totaled 68.4 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1% week-over-week), 21.9 million official streams (down 13%) and 2,000 sold (down 14%) in the U.S. April 18-24. (A week earlier, its chart performance was boosted by the April 11 premiere of its official video.)

“Luther” leads Radio Songs for a fourth week and dips to No. 3 following seven weeks atop Streaming Songs.

“Luther” concurrently collects an 18th week at No. 1 on both the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.

Two weeks after “Ordinary” became Alex Warren’s first Hot 100 top 10, the song pushes 5-3 for a new best. It concurrently crowns Streaming Songs for the first time, with 21 million streams (up 3%). (While the song’s sum of raw streams is the week’s second-highest, after “Luther,” “Ordinary” tops Streaming Songs due to the application of weighting to all titles’ paid/subscription and ad-supported on-demand streams and programmed/radio streams.)

A week earlier, “Ordinary” became Warren’s first No. 1 on Digital Song Sales, where it descends to No. 3 although with a 7% gain to 7,000 sold.

Morgan Wallen and Post Malone’s “I Ain’t Coming Back” bows at No. 8 on the Hot 100. Released April 18, it totaled 19.5 million streams, 2.9 million in airplay audience and 6,000 sold in its first week.

The song further ushers in Wallen’s fourth studio album, I’m the Problem, due May 16; his tour of the same name is set to launch June 20. It’s his sixth song from the set (all are confirmed as on its tracklist) to hit the top 10 – extending the record for the most Hot 100 top 10s from an album prior to its release. Here’s a recap of the collection’s top 10s to date:

(Previously, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, in 2019, and Taylor Swift’s Red, in 2012, each generated four Hot 100 top 10s before debuting, each at No. 1, on the Billboard 200 albums chart.)

Elsewhere in the Hot 100’s top 10, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” keeps at No. 2, following five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in January.

Drake’s “Nokia” drops 3-4 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2.

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” rebounds 5-4 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July. It adds a 42nd week atop the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart.

Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” backtracks to No. 6 from its No. 4 Hot 100 high and Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” climbs 10-7.

Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year’s No. 1 song, descends 7-10, as it tallies a record-extending 59th week in the top 10; a week earlier, it surpassed the 57-week run in the region of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” for the most such frames in the chart’s history. “Lose Control” first hit the top 10 on the list dated Jan. 20, 2024, and has been absent from the tier for only eight weeks since.

“Lose Control” notches an 88th week on the Hot 100 overall, one-upping Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive,” in 2012-14, for the sole third-longest stay in the chart’s history. The only hits with longer runs: Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” (91 weeks, in 2021-22) and “Blinding Lights” (90, in 2019-22).

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” holds at No. 9, after it hit No. 2 in March 2024.