James Brown returned to a Billboard chart thanks to a prominent sample. Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn did not. The reasons can be complex.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA show no signs of slowing down, as the pair’s Luther enters its seventh total and consecutive week of dominating the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The Luther Vandross-sampling single from Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” album is his sixth #1 song and the third chart-topper for SZA ...

The track, which samples “You Are My Joy (Interlude ... Walker’s previous high on this chart was Usher‘s major hit “Good Good,” which also featured 21 Savage. The Mel & Mus-produced ...