{"id":8846,"date":"2026-10-12T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/12\/bruno-mars-ties-kendrick-lamar-szas-31-week-chart-record\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T02:00:41","slug":"bruno-mars-ties-kendrick-lamar-szas-31-week-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/10\/12\/bruno-mars-ties-kendrick-lamar-szas-31-week-chart-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars Ties Kendrick Lamar &#038; SZA&#8217;s 31-Week Chart Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bruno-mars-1200x675.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bruno Mars reaches 31 weeks at No. 1, matching the record held by Kendrick Lamar and SZA\u2019s chart giant \u201cLuther.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruno Mars has tied Kendrick Lamar and SZA for the longest run at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart in its 68-year history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI Just Might\u201d logged its 31st week at No. 1 on the October 10-dated chart, matching the record set by Kendrick and SZA\u2019s \u201cLuther\u201d across 2024 and 2025, according to Billboard and Luminate data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The song posted 5.3 million official U.S. streams, a 51.9 million airplay audience, and 1,000 sales during the tracking week of September 25 through October 1. Those three measures feed the combined chart, which ranks the country\u2019s most popular R&amp;B and Hip-Hop songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billboard has used the all-encompassing ranking since October 1958, making the tie a benchmark across several generations of soul, rap and R&amp;B hits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-color has-body-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3 has-dark-background has-xxl-margin-top has-xxl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"middle-content-engagement-single\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-black-background-color has-background has-dark-background has-sm-padding-top has-sm-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has--lg-margin-top has--lg-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-join-us\">Join Us <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-allhiphop-s-daily-news-service\">AllHipHop\u2019s Daily News Service<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-sm-max-width wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering news to inboxes since 1999. We break it. They take it. Get it first, straight from AllHipHop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 on 1 with Bruno Mars: On his Filipino roots and his &amp;apos;Romantic&amp;apos; return to PH | ABS-CBN News\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tk7_94UrgHs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mars released \u201cI Just Might\u201d through Atlantic Records in January as the lead single from <em>The Romantic<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It debuted at No. 1 on the Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart dated January 24 and has surrendered the top position to only one track: Drake\u2019s \u201cJanice STFU,\u201d which led for seven weeks from May into July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record gives Mars another major crossover benchmark. \u201cI Just Might\u201d became his 10th No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. It also reached No. 1 on the Pop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay charts and climbed to No. 2 on Adult R&amp;B Airplay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Mars\u2019 fifth No. 1 on Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs. His earlier No. 1s were \u201cThat\u2019s What I Like,\u201d the Cardi B collaborations \u201cFinesse\u201d and \u201cPlease Me,\u201d and \u201cLeave the Door Open\u201d with Anderson .Paak as Silk Sonic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tie also keeps Kendrick and SZA at the center of the conversation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLuther,\u201d from Kendrick\u2019s <em>GNX<\/em>, used a sample from Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn\u2019s version of \u201cIf This World Were Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruno Mars could take the crown if \u201cI Just Might\u201d holds for another week. But Drake and Don Toliver released new music on the October 2 <em>HABIBTI<\/em> deluxe edition, creating a fresh challenge before the next ranking arrives.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/bruno-mars-ties-kendrick-lamar-szas-31-week-chart-record\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Mars reaches 31 weeks at No. 1, matching the record held by Kendrick Lamar and SZA\u2019s chart giant \u201cLuther.\u201d Bruno Mars has tied Kendrick Lamar and SZA for the longest run at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart in its 68-year history. \u201cI Just Might\u201d logged its 31st week at No. 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}