Kendrick Lamar is reigning high with 2024’s official song of the summer ‘Not Like Us.’
The Drake diss record has reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 again this week.
The single marked Kendrick Lamar’s first record to sit atop the chart for multiple weeks, albeit not continuously.
Billboard is reporting that the track saw a 20 percent increase in streams at 53.8 million and a 16 percent uptick in sales at 8,000 copies from July 5 to 11.
via Billboard:
The track adds a second week at the Hot 100’s summit, after it debuted at No. 1 nine weeks earlier. It became a pop-culture fixture and spent the next eight weeks after its arrival between Nos. 2 and 6, including the last two frames at No. 3. In that span, it was further boosted by Lamar’s Juneteenth The Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert – in which he performed the seething diss track five times – at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
Meanwhile, Lamar lands his first multi-week Hot 100 No. 1 on his own; he previously led with no billed collaborators for a week in 2017 with “Humble.” He has ruled the Hot 100 for an overall personal-best three weeks in April with “Like That,” with Future and Metro Boomin. He earned the first of his four No. 1s for a week in 2015 as featured on Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.”
“Not Like Us,” on pgLang/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope/ICLG, reigns with 53.8 million official streams (up 20%), 40 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 9%) and 8,000 sold (up 16%) in the United States July 5-11.
The song scores a fifth week over 50 million weekly streams, the most for a title this year. (Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” ranks second with three such weeks.) In all, songs have combined for 17 weeks of 50 million or more streams in 2024; last year, only one song reached that mark, twice: Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers.”
Congrats Kendrick!
