As Kendrick Lamar’s new LP, GNX, blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the famous person rapper guidelines the Billboard Hot 100 songs survey, the place the set’s “Squabble Up” likewise launches on the summit.
The observe turns into Lamar’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1, and his third of 2024 – essentially the most amongst all artists this yr. He beforehand led in 2024 with “Not Like Us,” for 2 weeks starting in May, and “Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin, for 3 weeks in April.
Lamar sweeps the Hot 100’s prime 5 with 4 extra debuts from GNX: “TV Off” (that includes Lefty Gunplay), “Luther” (with SZA), “Wacced Out Murals” and “Hey Now” (that includes Dody6) at Nos. 2-5, respectively. He joins solely Taylor Swift, Drake and The Beatles in having positioned at Nos. 1-5 in a single week.
Lamar additionally debuts within the Hot 100’s prime 10 with fellow GNX tracks “Reincarnated” (No. 8) and “Man on the Garden” (No. 9), swelling his profession depend to 22 prime 10 hits.
Below Lamar’s prime 5 Hot 100 arrivals, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” falls to No. 6 per week after it logged a record-equaling nineteenth week at No. 1. Over the chart’s 66-year historical past, it stays tied for the longest reign with Lil Nas X’s 2019 smash “Old Town Road,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus.
Plus, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” once more decorates the Hot 100’s prime 10, dashing 16-10. The fashionable traditional, from 1994, has reigned for 14 complete weeks relationship to its first body on the apex in 2019.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and gross sales knowledge, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of bodily singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles gross sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) websites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 7, 2024) will replace on Billboard.com tomorrow, Dec. 3). For all chart information, you’ll be able to observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Lamar Lands Fifth Hot 100 No. 1 With ‘Squabble Up’
“Squabble Up,” on pgLang/Interscope/ICLG, bounds in atop the Hot 100 with 52 million official streams, 5.7 million radio airplay viewers impressions and 5,000 offered within the United States within the week ending Nov. 28, following its shock Nov. 22 launch on Lamar’s album GNX.
The track soars in as Lamar’s fifth Hot 100 No. 1. Here’s a recap of his leaders:
- “Squabble Up,” one week at No. 1 up to now, Dec. 7, 2024
- “Not Like Us,” two weeks, starting May 18, 2024
- “Like That” (Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar), three, starting April 6, 2024
- “Humble.,” one, May 6, 2017
- “Bad Blood” (Taylor Swift feat. Lamar), one, June 6, 2015
Lamar is the primary artist with three Hot 100 No. 1s in 2024, surpassing Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Morgan Wallen, every with two.
Meanwhile, with “Squabble Up,” “Not Like Us” and “Like That” all having opened atop the Hot 100, Lamar is the primary solo male ever with three No. 1 debuts in a single yr. Among all acts, solely BTS (2021) and Grande (2020) beforehand achieved the feat.
“Squabble Up” moreover begins as Lamar’s sixth No. 1 on the all-genre Streaming Songs chart and his fifth No. 1 on each the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs surveys.
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Lamar Meets Swift, Drake & The Beatles
Lamar completes the Hot 100’s prime 5 with 4 extra debuts from GNX: “TV Off,” that includes Lefty Gunplay (No. 2; 46.9 million streams), “Luther,” with SZA (No. 3; 44.4 million), “Wacced Out Murals” (No. 4; 38 million) and “Hey Now,” that includes Dody6 (No. 5; 31.2 million).
Lamar is the fourth artist ever to boast the complete Hot 100’s prime 5 in a single week. Taylor Swift is the one act to rank at Nos. 1-10 on the Hot 100 in single frames, as she completed the feat on charts dated this May 4 – when she blanketed the highest 14 spots – and Nov. 5, 2022. Plus, Drake positioned at Nos. 1-5 and 7-10 on the Sept. 18, 2021, tally. The Beatles first charted such a fab 5 on the April 4, 1964, chart with, from Nos. 1 to five, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist and Shout,” “She Loves You,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “Please Please Me.”
Lamar additionally debuts within the Hot 100’s prime 10 with “Reincarnated” (No. 8; 27.9 million streams) and “Man on the Garden” (No. 9; 27.4 million). With seven new prime 10s, he ups his profession depend to 22 such hits, becoming a member of 20 different acts with not less than that many. (Drake leads with 79 prime 10s, adopted by Swift with 59.)
Lefty Gunplay and Dody6 every earn their first Hot 100 prime 10s, of their first visits to the chart, whereas SZA scores her eleventh prime 10. Notably, “Luther” samples Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn’s cowl of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “If This World Were Mine.” The unique hit No. 27 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (then named Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles) in 1968; Vandross and Lynn’s remake reached No. 4 on the chart (then Hot Black Singles) in 1982.
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Shaboozey Extends Country, Radio & Sales Reigns
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” slides to No. 6 on the Hot 100 per week after it notched a record-tying nineteenth week at No. 1, matching the 2019 command of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus.
“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” moreover leads the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a twenty fourth week, tying for the fifth-longest domination because the checklist turned the style’s singular survey in 1958.
The observe additionally holds for an 18th week at No. 1 on the Radio Songs chart, matching Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” (2023) and Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” (1998) for the second-longest rule because the tally started in 1990. Only The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” has led the airplay chart longer: 26 weeks in 2020.
Plus, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” rebounds to the highest of Digital Song Sales (9,000 offered, up 14%) for a fifteenth week at No. 1, the fifth-longest keep on the summit within the rating’s 20-year archives.
Also falling 5 spots on the Hot 100, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” descends to No. 7 following 4 weeks at its No. 2 excessive.
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Carey’s ‘Christmas’ Dashes Back to Top 10
Image Credit: Dennis Leopold Rounding out the Hot 100’s prime 10, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – the No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday 100 Songs retrospective – jingles 16-10, with 26.8 million streams (up 52%), 15.7 million airplay viewers impressions (up 68%) and a couple of,000 offered (up 25%).
The carol, initially launched in 1994, hit the Hot 100’s prime 10 for the primary time in December 2017. In December 2019, it ascended to No. 1 finally, for 3 weeks that vacation season. It led the Hot 100 for 2 extra weeks within the 2020 vacation season, three over the 2021 holidays, 4 through the 2022 season and one other two in 2023, upping its complete to 14 weeks at No. 1.
With its 2019 coronation, Carey collected her nineteenth Hot 100 No. 1, extending her mark for essentially the most amongst soloists and transferring to inside one among The Beatles’ total document 20.
The track concurrently crowns the multi-metric Holiday 100 chart, which returns for the Yuletide season this week, for a 61st week, of the checklist’s 69 complete frames because the chart started in 2011.
