Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” tops the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a milestone 10th total and consecutive week. The single, whose title honors late R&B great Luther Vandross, who is sampled on it, became Lamar’s sixth No. 1 and SZA’s third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song.
An elite 4% of all Hot 100 No. 1s (46 of 1,179, dating to the chart’s Aug. 4, 1958, start) have ruled for double-digit weeks. Of those, “Luther” is the first by a solo man and woman and no accompanying acts – surpassing the nine-week reign of Diana Ross and Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” in 1981. (Among other 10-plus-week No. 1s by co-billed lead male and female acts, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans’ “I’ll Be Missing You” — featuring vocal group 112 — led for 11 weeks in 1997 and Mariah Carey and then-quartet Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” dominated for 16 weeks in 1995-96.)
Plus, Alex Warren’s first Hot 100 top 10, “Ordinary,” hits a new high (5-3), and reaches No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, and Morgan Wallen and Post Malone’s “I Ain’t Coming Back” debuts at No. 8 on the Hot 100, becoming their 15th and 14th top 10, respectively. It’s the sixth top 10 from Wallen’s album I’m the Problem — all ahead of its May 16 release, as he extends his record for the most top 10s from an album prior to its arrival.
Browse the full rundown of this week’s top 10 below.
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‘Luther’ Airplay, Streams & Sales
“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.
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‘Ordinary’ Hits New High, Leads in Streaming
Image Credit: Austin Hargrave 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.
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Wallen’s Record-Extending 6th Pre-Album Release Top 10
Image Credit: Spidey Smith 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:
- “I Ain’t Coming Back,” with Post Malone, No. 8 debut & peak to date, May 3, 2025
- “Just in Case,” No. 4 debut & peak, April 5
- “I’m the Problem,” No. 2 debut & peak, Feb. 15
- “Smile,” No. 4 peak, Jan. 18
- “Love Somebody,” No. 1 debut & peak, one week, Nov. 2, 2024
- “Lies Lies Lies,” No. 7 debut & peak, July 20
(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.)
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Rest of Top 10: ‘Die With a Smile’ & More
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.
