Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Like That’ Earns Best Streaming Week for a Hip-Hop Hit Since 2021

Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar reign on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart dated April 6 with “Like That,” which blasts in at No. 1. In the March 22-28 tracking week (the song’s first, after premiering March 22), “Like That” earned 59.6 million official U.S. streams, according to Luminate.

It’s the biggest week for any song in the U.S. in 2024 and the most streams in a single week since the second week of release for Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (as reflected on the Feb. 4, 2023, chart), which accrued 59.8 million listens.

As “Flowers” opened with 52.6 million streams (Jan. 28, 2023), “Like That” boasts the biggest opening week for a track since Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” which began with 59.7 million streams (Nov. 5, 2022).

Among R&B/hip-hop titles (defined as those that have hit Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart), “Like That” sports the most weekly streams since Drake’s “Way 2 Sexy,” featuring current leader Future and Young Thug, soared in with 67.3 million (Sept. 18, 2021).

“Like That” is Future’s third Streaming Songs No. 1, following “Way 2 Sexy” and his own “Wait for U,” featuring Drake and Tems (2022).

Metro Boomin earns his first Streaming Songs ruler (as a billed recording artist), eclipsing a pair of No. 2 peaks with “Runnin,” a co-bill with 21 Savage (2020), and “Creepin’,” a triple bill alongside The Weeknd and 21 Savage (2023).

Lamar nabs his fourth Streaming Songs No. 1, following “Humble.” (2017), Lil Wayne’s “Mona Lisa,” on which he’s featured (2018), and “N95” (2022).

“Like That” leads an onslaught of titles from Future and Metro Boomin’s new collaborative album We Don’t Trust You on Streaming Songs — 17 in total, the LP’s entire tracklist. That includes five of the chart’s top six, with “Like That” followed directly by “Type Shit,” by Future, Metro Boomin, Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, at No. 2 (34.9 million streams). The only non-Future and -Metro Boomin song in the top six: Hozier’s “Too Sweet,” which debuts at No. 3 via 28.9 million streams.

Concurrently, as previously reported, “Like That” debuts at No. 1 on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 with 5.6 million radio audience impressions and 9,000 downloads in addition to its streams. We Don’t Trust You bounds in atop the Billboard 200 with 251,000 equivalent album units earned.