Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping collaboration with SZA “Luther” has raced paced the one billion streams landmark on Spotify.
Only released in November, it is Lamar’s fastest song to reach the milestone, surpassing his previous record with “Not Like Us”.
While “Not Like Us” took eight months to notch up one billion streams, “Luther” has achieved it in just seven.
“Luther” is now Lamar’s eleventh song to hit one billion streams on the platform, joining hits such as “All the Stars”, “Humble” and “Money Trees”.
Kendrick has been a chart phenom over the last year.
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“Luther” in particular has been a record breaking hit, spending 13 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year while it dominated the Hip Hop chart for 25 weeks.
Kendrick recently got to celebrate the continued success of his astonishing year which has seen him dominate pop culture.
The Compton rapper swept the BET Awards, picking up five trophies on the night.
Held in his native Los Angeles, Lamar was on hand to collect awards for Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Artist, Best Collaboration Video of the Year and Video Director of the Year, the latter two of which he shared with longtime creative partner Dave Free.
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Lamar appeared on the TV broadcast to collect the award for Album of the Year and gave a brief speech to the crowd in attendance.
He said: “I ain’t been here in a long time but I always kept my heart BET. I always made sure they representing the culture right and they put me in the midst of the cycle we represent and that’s real, true, down to earth music that people can feel so I always give my heart to BET.
“To my folks in the building, to my LA natives in the back, I see you. God first and foremost, my company pgLang, SZA in the crowd, we on tour right now, please come to the show. We gonna keep this thing going, I appreciate y’all.”
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K. Dot and SZA are currently on their Grand National tour which is set to finish up in North America before the duo make their way to Europe for a series of stadium shows.
