Kendrick Lamar caps a landmark 2025 on Billboard’s charts by finishing as the top Hot 100 Songwriter of the year for the first time.
He finishes 2025 thanks to the chart performance of 22 songwriting credits on the Billboard Hot 100 during the 2025 eligibility period (charts dated Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025), including his 13-week No. 1 “Luther,” with SZA, and one-week ruler “Squabble Up.”
Explore All of Billboard’s 2025 Year-End Charts
Here’s a look at all 22 of Lamar’s songwriting credits on the Hot 100 during the 2025 tracking period, which all contribute to his placement on the year-end ranking. Note that several of the songs below are holdovers from previous years — “Not Like Us,” for example debuted and peaked at No. 1 on May 18, 2024, but it remained on the chart through May 2025. As such, its chart run from Oct. 26, 2024 through May counts towards Lamar’s 2025 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters ranking since it was still charting. Same with “Humble.” and “All the Stars” (with SZA) — both of which returned to the chart following Lamar’s headlining turn during the Super Bowl halftime show in February. They peaked in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
Peak Position, Artist Billing, Title
No. 1, Kendrick Lamar, “Humble.”
No. 1, Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar, “Like That”
No. 1, Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”
No. 1, Kendrick Lamar, “Squabble Up”
No. 1, Kendrick Lamar with SZA, “Luther”
No. 2, Kendrick Lamar feat. Lefty Gunplay, “TV Off”
No. 3, Kendrick Lamar, “Euphoria”
No. 4, Kendrick Lamar, “Wacced Out Murals”
No. 5, Kendrick Lamar feat. Dody6, “Hey Now”
No. 7, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, “All the Stars”
No. 8, Kendrick Lamar, “Reincarnated”
No. 9, Kendrick Lamar, “Man At The Garden”
No. 10, SZA with Kendrick Lamar, “30 For 30”
No. 11, Kendrick Lamar feat. Wallke The Sensei, Siete7x & Roddy Ricch, “Dodger Blue”
No. 13, Kendrick Lamar feat. Azchike, “Peekaboo”
No. 14, Kendrick Lamar, “Heart Pt. 6”
No. 17, Kendrick Lamar with Playboi Carti, “Good Credit”
No. 24, Kendrick Lamar feat. Hitta J3, YoungThreat & Peysoh, “GNX”
No. 25, Playboi Carti feat. Kendrick Lamar & Jhene Aiko, “Backd00r”
No. 27, Kendrick Lamar with SZA, “Gloria”
No. 27, Playboi Carti, “Mojo Jojo”
No. 42, Clipse feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Chains & Whips”
Of the 22 songs that contribute to Lamar’s No. 1 placement, all but “All the Stars,” “Humble.,” “Like That,” “Not Like Us” and “Euphoria” peaked on the Hot 100 during the eligibility period.
Twelve songs appear on Lamar’s album GNX, which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and finishes at No. 4 on the 2025 year-end Billboard 200 ranking.
Just below Lamar on the year-end Hot 100 Songwriters ranking, Amy Allen finishes at No. 2, thanks to 31 songs that debuted on the Hot 100 during the eligibility period, including three top 10s: Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” (No. 1) and “Tears” (No. 3), and ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” (No. 3). She’s the principal songwriter behind Carpenter’s No. 1 album Man’s Best Friend, having written or co-written all 12 of its tracks. Allen also penned songs for Tate McRae (“Just Keep Watching”) and JENNIE and Dua Lipa (“Handlebars”).
This marks the best year-end finish of Allen’s career. She first appeared on the year-end ranking in 2024, finishing at No. 5.
Rounding out the top five of the 2025 year-end Hot 100 Songwriters tally, Sabrina Carpenter ranks at No. 3, Charlie Handsome finishes at No. 4 and Billie Eilish and FINNEAS are tied at No. 5 (they were the sole songwriters on the same four charting songs during the eligibility period).
Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the differences between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.
