Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
Kendrick Lamar closed out the top 20, and he’s back again at #21. This time he’s a featured artist on a single from SZA’s 2024 album Lana, returning the favor after she featured on his #1 hit ‘Luther.’
This is one of nine collaborations between SZA and Lamar, and the third most successful (after ‘Luther’ and 2018’s ‘All the Stars,’ from the Black Panther soundtrack).
Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Squabble Up’ sits at #20 on the year-end list, giving him four entries in the top 20. That ties him with Morgan Wallen, giving two very different artists a shared grip on last year’s musical landscape.
‘Squabble Up’ was released as a dual lead single with ‘TV Off,’ though both ended up being eclipsed by third single ‘Luther.’
Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
The 15th most popular song of 2025 belonged to Kendrick Lamar. ‘TV Off’ is Lamar’s second appearance on the list, after his ‘Luther’ collab with SZA showed up at #2. The songs were the second and third singles on his surprise 2024 album GNX.
The song was produced by Mustard (among others), and bears a striking similarity to the duo’s smash Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us.’
I haven’t done an installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To’ since last August (not counting the year-end roundup) so I figured it was high time. Over the next two weeks, I’ll offer up the songs currently topping Billboard’s Hot 100.
At #1 this week is ‘luther,’ a collaboration between Kendrick Lamar and SZA, the third single from Lamar’s latest studio album, GNX. This song has been atop the Hot 100 for ten straight weeks, making it the longest running chart-topper for both artists.
Continuing my look at the Billboard Hot 100 songs of 2024…
Taylor Swift shows up at #12, but it’s not a song from her latest album, but rather ‘Cruel Summer,’ the Lover track that reached #1 four years after its album release. At #13 is Tate McRae’s ‘Greedy,’ a decent showing for an artist I’m still not sure is a real person.
That brings us to #14 and the next song I haven’t yet featured — ‘Like That’ by Future, Metro Boomin, and Kendrick Lamar.
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