(February 7, 2025). There’s a lot of buzz about this year’s Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. It’s a chance for the Chiefs to make history as the first team ever to three-peat if Patrick Mahomes and Co. pull off a victory against the Jalen Hurts-led Eagles.
But, regardless of the game’s outcome, it appears there will be a three-time winner of another sort this Sunday (Feb. 9) when Billboard’s next Hot 100 chart takes effect. If all goes as projected — and it appears it will — Bruno Mars will become the first artist to have the No. 1 song in America on three different Super Bowl Sundays.
His duet with Lady Gaga, “Die With a Smile,” is projected to return to No. 1 for a fifth week with a decent lead over the expected No. 2 song, Morgan Wallen’s new single “I’m The Problem.” If that happens, it will follows his earlier Super Bowl No. 1s: “Grenade” (No. 1 during SB45, Feb. 2011) and “Uptown Funk” with Mark Ronson (No. 1 during SB49, Feb. 2015). That will break Bruno out of a three-way tie with Elton John and last week’s Best Album Grammy winner Beyoncé as the only artists to have had two songs top the Hot 100 during Super Bowl week. And Bey is the only artist to have done it consecutively with chart toppers during Super Bowls 40 and 41 in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
Speaking of this year’s big Grammy winners, this year’s halftime performer, Kendrick Lamar, is currently on pace to have the No. 3 song on this week’s chart, the rap ballad “Luther” featuring SZA. That near-miss means that Lamar will join the list of other Super Bowl performers who’ve not had one of their songs top the chart during the week of the Big Game. Only former halftime performers Bruno, Beyoncé, Usher and Katy Perry have also had songs that were No. 1 on a Super Sunday. If Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” moves to No. 1 as expected, she will join Bruno and the others as former halftime performers who’ve also had a No. 1 song during a Super Bowl week. It’s worth noting that Taylor Swift, who will be at this weekend’s game — not as a performer but to cheer on her boyfriend Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — has never had a No. 1 song on Super Sunday.
Meanwhile, everyone is wondering whether Kendrick will perform his five-time Grammy winning diss — or at least part of it — during this Sunday’s halftime break. “Not Like Us” has been the subject of legal action by its target, Drake, who has never had a halftime performance and is currently touring halfway across the world in Australia. So the NFL may be taking a risk if it allows King Kenny to perform the brutal takedown of his Canadian nemesis in front of a worldwide viewing audience of more than a billion people.
But there is one thing Drake can claim that Kendrick can’t. Drake has had a No. 1 song during Super Bowl week. His 2018 smash, “God’s Plan,” was No. 1 during SB52. That was when the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots to win their first Super Bowl.
Is it in God’s Plan for the Eagles to win again? We’ll have to wait and see. But readers don’t have to wait to see all of the Super Bowl No. 1 songs from the very first in 1967 to this year’s projected chart topper. It’s all right here at djrobblog.
Take a scroll down memory lane and enjoy! (And make sure you advance the pages using the arrows below to see the full list of 59!)
