Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s ‘Luther’ Leads Billboard Hot 100 for Second Week

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a second week. A week earlier, the single – whose title is an ode to late R&B legend Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track — became Lamar’s sixth No. 1 and SZA’s third.

“Luther” is also making unprecedented moves on Billboard’s radio airplay charts. Reflecting its mass-appeal mix of R&B and rap, it becomes the first song to have topped both the Adult R&B Airplay and Rap Airplay charts in the quarter century-plus that the surveys have both been publishing.

Further in the Hot 100’s top 10, Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” reenters the region at a new No. 8 high and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” at No. 9, spends an 80th week on the chart overall, becoming just the fourth song to reach the milestone in the list’s history.

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 March 8, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, March 4. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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