Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth total and consecutive week. The single, whose title is a tribute to late R&B icon Luther Vandross, who is sampled on the track, became Lamar’s sixth No. 1 and SZA’s third. Both Lamar and SZA extend their longest career Hot 100 reigns with the song.

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.

‘Luther’ Airplay, Streams & Sales

“Luther,” on pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, totaled 56.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 1% week-over-week), 27.9 million official streams (down 11%) and 3,000 sold (up 12%) in the U.S. March 14-20.

The track holds at its No. 2 high on the Radio Songs chart; slips to No. 3 after four weeks atop Streaming Songs; and rebounds 17-10, after reaching No. 4, on Digital Song Sales.

“Luther” concurrently adds a 13th week at No. 1 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same methodology as the Hot 100.

Playboi Carti debuts two songs in the Hot 100’s top five: “Evil J0rdan,” at No. 2, and “Rather Lie,” with The Weeknd, at No. 4. The tracks are from the rapper’s new album, MUSIC, which bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 298,000 equivalent album units, becoming his second leader.

Playboi Carti ups his career total to seven Hot 100 top 10s, and charts concurrent top 10s for the first time. The Weeknd adds his 20th top 10 (becoming the 27th act to reach the milestone in the chart’s 66-year history).

“Evil J0rdan” and “Rather Lie” open with 30.8 million and 26.6 million streams, respectively, with the former also arriving as Playboi Carti’s third Streaming Songs No. 1.

Doechii Gets Her First Top 10. Doechii’s “Anxiety” ascends three spots to No. 10 on the Hot 100, becoming her first top 10. It drew 21.4 million streams (up 4%), 4.8 million in airplay audience (up 479%) and 11,000 downloads sold (up 101%) in the tracking week. It also becomes her first leader (4-1) on Digital Song Sales.

The song by the rapper/singer – who is set to be honored with the 2025 Woman of the Year award at the annual Billboard Women in Music celebration March 29 – was released in 2019.

Notably, “Anxiety” prominently samples Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” (featuring Kimbra), which crowned the Hot 100 for eight weeks in 2012. (That hit drew 5 million streams and 4.9 million in airplay audience in the latest tracking frame.) S: Billboard