Kendrick Lamar has created yet more chart history as “Luther” remains at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a twelfth consecutive week.
The SZA collaboration now holds the record for most weeks at number one for a song with co-billed solo men and women, surpassing Diddy and Faith Evans’ 1994 Biggie tribute “I’ll Be Missing You”.
Only one collaborative song – Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s “One Sweet Day” – has spent longer at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
“Luther” is also the biggest Hip Hop single of the decade, surpassing the 11 weeks Roddy Ricch spent at number one with “The Box” in 2020.
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Lamar and SZA each extend their longest stay at the summit of the chart as the success of “Luther” shows no signs of slowing down despite being released last November.
For its twelfth week at the top of the chart, “Luther” tallied 65.4 million radio airplay audience impressions plus 19.1 million streams and 2,000 actual sales.
It is still the most played song on radio in the US.
Elsewhere in the top 10, Drake remains strong with “Nokia” as the $ome $exy $ongs 4 U breakout hit slides only one spot down to number five.
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Doechii‘s “Anxiety” has also reached a new peak of number nine.
Kendrick Lamar has been breaking records left and right over the last year.
He recently got to celebrate the fact that he put on the highest grossing show by a Black man in history.
The feat occurred at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on April 26, where his Grand National Tour (co-headlined by SZA) brought in a whopping $11.822 million in a single night.
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The record was previously held by The Weeknd, who grossed $9.8 million at his 2022 concert at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the tour, Kendrick had already broken the record for highest grossing rap concert, an honor previously held by Eminem from when he toured Australia in 2019.
According to Touring Data, the opening night in Minneapolis grossed over $9.1 million from more than 47,000 fans at an average price of $192.70.
The gig also became the first ever rap concert to gross more than $9 million in a single night.
