Will ‘No longer Like Us’ Most sensible the Sizzling 100 Put up-Tremendous Bowl?

The Contenders is a midweek column that appears at artists aiming for the highest of the Billboard charts, and the methods in the back of their efforts. This week, for the impending Billboard Sizzling 100 dated Feb. 22, we have a look at the a couple of Kendrick Lamar songs that may have a shot at shooting the No. 1 spot following the rapper’s Tremendous Bowl halftime efficiency.  

Kendrick Lamar, “No longer Like Us,” “Luther” (with SZA) & “TV Off” (feat. TV Gunplay) (pgLang/Interscope/ICLG): Kendrick Lamar simply electrified the music-listening international with one of the vital most-anticipated Tremendous Bowl halftime presentations of all time — coming no longer only one week after a Grammy sweep on Feb. 2 that noticed Lamar win all 5 of his nominations (together with file and track of the yr), however a year-long run of 1 W after any other that noticed him earn our editorial group of workers’s Largest Pop Big name of 2024 name. The efficiency was once the most-watched within the display’s historical past, in line with presenter Apple Tune and the NFL, with over 133.5 million other people tuning in to look K Dot take without equal victory lap.  

And naturally, the track they have been maximum eager about seeing him play was once his 2024 Billboard Sizzling 100-topper “No longer Like Us.” The already-legendary diss monitor, our editorial group of workers’s No. 1 track of closing yr, were tied up in litigation in fresh months, because of court cases levied through its goal, fellow rap famous person Drake, who gave the impression intent on making it tough for his opponent to play the incendiary minimize at the international’s greatest level. However Lamar certainly delivered the track as his efficiency’s centerpiece, even providing a conspicuous (and already much-memed) smile to the digital camera upon his first “Say Drake…” point out.  

Despite the fact that “No longer Like Us” has been out for 8 months already at this level, and loved two separate journeys to No. 1 at the Sizzling 100 (the second one coming after the discharge of its in a similar way headline-capturing tune video in July), it will have to have an excellent chance of shooting the highest spot once more this week. The track, which has persevered to linger at the Sizzling 100 (already rebounding to No. 15 this week, in anticipation of Lamar’s set and following his giant Grammy night time), shot again to the highest of the Spotify Day-to-day Most sensible Songs USA chart, the Apple Tune real-time chart and the iTunes chart following Lamar’s efficiency, as its efficiency on Sunday night time stays on the heart of all pop- and hip-hop-related dialogue this week.  

However it’s no longer Lamar’s best monitor threatening the No. 1 spot this week. Lamar has additionally noticed giant positive factors this week for his GNX unmarried “Luther,” which he and collaborator SZA additionally gave a centerpiece spot all the way through his halftime set, and which recently ranks slightly below “No longer Like Us” at No. 2 on each and every of the aforementioned scores. And proper beneath them is the Lefty Gunplay-featuring “TV Off,” which Lamar introduced straight away following “No longer Like Us” because the last a part of his efficiency – with manufacturer Mustard popping out to bounce and silently rap alongside to the anthem. “Luther” and “TV Off” also are in top role at the Sizzling 100 recently, rating at No. 3 and No. 10 in this week’s chart, respectively.  

Radio play can also be a significant component through which of the Tremendous Bowl-boosted Kendrick tracks performs the most important risk to the Sizzling 100’s best spot subsequent week. “Luther” is recently main there, because it bounds from No. 14 to 11 at the Radio Songs chart this week, and has already been up any other 9% in target audience impressions over the primary 4 days of this monitoring week (Feb. 7-10), in line with Luminate. However “TV Off” could also be gaining, and “No longer Like Us” is now rebounding as smartly, up a whopping 35% over that very same four-day duration.  

If “No longer Like Us” can maintain throughout streaming, gross sales and radio right through the week, it will have the most productive probability of leaping to No. 1 subsequent week – which might make it the extraordinarily uncommon non-holiday unmarried with 3 other runs at No. 1, each and every separated through a couple of months. And regardless, we will have to see a variety of Kendrick Lamar within the best 10 subsequent week.

Girl Gaga & Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” (Streamline/Interscope/Atlantic/ICLG) & Girl Gaga, “Abracadabra” (Interscope/ICLG): “Die With a Smile” is formally the track to overcome this early 2025, with the famous person duet returning for a 5th body at No. 1 this week, after in short being interrupted through Travis Scott’s pole position-debuting “4×4.” The track has even after all captured the crown on Radio Songs, after Shaboozey’s ancient 27-week run atop that chart with “A Bar Track (Tipsy),” and will have to additionally reign for a 2d week on that list – regardless that it’ll most likely quickly face critical festival from any other starry Bruno Mars teamup, with ROSÉ on “APT.”  

Talking of Bruno and Gaga offering their very own festival – the latter now has a breakout damage completely of her personal. Her “Abracadabra” bows at No. 29 at the Sizzling 100 this week with simply over 4 days of monitoring, after debuting with its tune video as a part of a Mastercard industrial all the way through the Grammys. The track were given off to a white-hot get started on streaming, and persevered rising within the days after, even in short shooting the highest spot at the Spotify Day-to-day Most sensible Songs USA chart — regardless that it has since gotten buried underneath an avalanche of Kendrick Lamar and SZA. Regardless, the track will have to make a large soar in its first complete week at the Sizzling 100 – possibly to the highest 10, if it doesn’t get boxed out through Kendrick – and is already aiming to debut on Pop Airplay, as smartly.  

Chappell Roan, “Crimson Pony Membership” (Amusement/Island): Don’t overlook concerning the Grammys’ perfect new artist, who has been surging at the Sizzling 100 following her giant win and show-stopping efficiency of what now seems to be the signature track of Roan’s early occupation, “Crimson Pony Membership.” Regardless of being initially launched in 2020, the track is best now in point of fact catching on each streaming and radio, because it re-enters Streaming Songs at No. 24 and hits a brand new top of No. 32 on Radio Songs this week. It will have to proceed mountain climbing on each listings subsequent week, and might also upward thrust at the Sizzling 100, after hitting a brand new top of No. 18 this week.