Kendrick Lamar & SZA Lead Hot 100 for Ninth Week, Teddy Swims Makes History in Top 10
Kendrick Lamar and SZA's 'Luther' rules the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a ninth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title honors late R&B legend Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track, became Lamar's sixth No. 1 and SZA's third. Lamar and SZA each extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song, whose official video premiered April 11.
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Meanwhile, 'Luther' passes 24kGoldn's 'Mood' (featuring iann dior), which led for eight weeks in 2020-21, for the sole second-longest Hot 100 command among rap hits this decade, after only Roddy Ricch's 'The Box,' which dominated for 11 weeks in 2020. (Rap titles are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart.)
Plus, Chappell Roan ties her best Hot 100 rank, as 'Pink Pony Club' rises 5-4; Alex Warren's first top 10, 'Ordinary,' reaches the top five (7-5), and hits No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales chart; and Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control,' at No. 7, breaks the record for the most weeks ever spent in the Hot 100's top 10, as it adds a 58th week in the region, one-upping the run of The Weeknd's 'Blinding Lights.'
Browse the full rundown of this week's top 10 below.
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 26, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, April 22. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Following the April 11 premiere of its official video, 'Luther,' on pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, totaled 67.5 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 7% week-over-week), 25 million official streams (up 10%) and 2,000 sold (up 7%) in the U.S. April 11-17.
'Luther' rebounds two spots for a seventh week atop the Streaming Songs chart; leads Radio Songs for a third week and rises three places to No. 20, after reaching No. 4, on Digital Song Sales.
'Luther' concurrently claims a 17th week at No. 1 on both the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' clip-clops a spot to No. 4 on the Hot 100, led by 2% gain to 45.2 million in audience. It tops the Pop Airplay chart for a third week.
The singer-songwriter matches her best Hot 100 rank, first set by 'Good Luck Babe!,' which hit No. 4 last September. Her three top 10s have all reached the top five; 'The Giver' debuted at its No. 5 peak in March.A week after 'Ordinary' became Alex Warren's first Hot 100 top 10, the song becomes his first top five hit, lifting 7-5. It surged by 60% to 13.2 million in airplay audience in the tracking week.
The single also lifts 3-1 to become Warren's first leader on Digital Song Sales (6,000 sold, up 3%).Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control,' which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024, and became the year's No. 1 song, rebounds 8-7, as it tallies a record-breaking 58th week in the top 10, surpassing the run in the region of The Weeknd's 'Blinding Lights' for the most such frames in the chart's 66-year history. 'Lose Control' first set up shop in the top 10 on the list dated Jan. 20, 2024, and has been absent from the tier for only eight weeks since.
Most Weeks in the Hot 100's Top 10:
58, 'Lose Control,' Teddy Swims, No. 1 peak (one week), March 30, 2024
57, 'Blinding Lights,' The Weeknd, No. 1 (four weeks), beginning April 4, 2020
48, 'A Bar Song (Tipsy),' Shaboozey, No. 1 (19), July 13, 2024
44, 'Stay,' The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber, No. 1 (seven), Aug. 14, 2021
41, 'Last Night,' Morgan Wallen, No. 1 (16), March 18, 2023
41, 'Levitating,' Dua Lipa, No. 2, May 22, 2021
39, 'Circles,' Post Malone, No. 1 (three), Nov. 30, 2019
38, 'As It Was,' Harry Styles, No. 1 (15), April 16, 2022
37, 'Heat Waves,' Glass Animals, No. 1 (five), March 12, 2022
37, 'All I Want for Christmas Is You,' Mariah Carey, No. 1 (18), Dec. 21, 2019
Notably, longevity in the weekly top 10 translates to success on the annual year-end Hot 100. Along with 'Lose Control' leading for 2024, 'Last Night' (2023), 'Heat Waves' (2022), 'Levitating' (2021) and 'Blinding Lights' (2020) also each finished first on its respective year-end ranking this decade.
'Lose Control' notches an 87th week on the Hot 100 overall, tying Imagine Dragons' 'Radioactive,' in 2012-14, for the third-longest stay in the chart's history. They trail only 'Heat Waves' (91 weeks, in 2021-22) and 'Blinding Lights' (90, in 2019-22).
Elsewhere in the Hot 100's top 10, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' 'Die With a Smile' ascends 3-2, following five nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in January. The song swaps spots with Drake's 'Nokia,' down a spot from its No. 2 high.
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. It posts a 41st week atop the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart.
BigXthaPlug's 'All the Way,' featuring Bailey Zimmerman, dips to No. 8 on the Hot 100, a week after it launched at No. 4; Benson Boone's 'Beautiful Things' rises 10-9, after it hit No. 2 in March 2024; and, rounding out the top 10, Morgan Wallen 'I'm the Problem' slips 9-10, after it debuted at its No. 2 high in February.
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