SZA‘s sophomore album, SOS, continues to make historical past on the Billboard charts.
The 2022 album has reached a brand new milestone, logging its one hundredth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Prime R&B Albums chart dated Jan. 11, 2025. Moreover, it extends its file because the longest-running No. 1 album on the chart.
SOS surpassed The Weeknd‘s earlier file, set by 2020’s After Hours, in its forty first week at No. 1 on the R&B Albums chart. After Hours held the highest spot for 40 weeks.
On Dec. 20, 2024, SZA launched a deluxe version of SOS, dubbed SOS Deluxe: LANA, which featured 15 further tracks, together with the Kendrick Lamar-assisted “30 For 30.”
The expanded set additionally included the beforehand shared “Saturn” and “Drive.” The latter tune was shared the week of the deluxe album launch through a music video starring actor and director Ben Stiller.
With the deluxe reissue, SOS has seen a surge throughout a number of Billboard charts. (The deluxe and unique variations are mixed for monitoring functions.)
Following the discharge of LANA, SOS returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 178,000 equal items bought within the week ending Dec. 26, 2024. In keeping with Billboard, LANA accounted for 105,000 equal items of these gross sales.
This week on Billboard (Jan. 11 chart), SOS stays No. 1 for a twelfth nonconsecutive week with 130,000 equal items bought. Elsewhere on the charts, SOS is No. 1 on the Prime Streaming Albums and leads the Prime R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for a twenty ninth week.
In keeping with the publication, SOS has probably the most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for an R&B album by a girl since Whitney Houston‘s self-titled debut LP spent 14 weeks atop the chart in 1986. It’s value noting the Houston-led The Bodyguard soundtrack spent 20 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 from 1992-1993.
SOS was launched Dec. 9, 2022, through Prime Dawg Leisure/RCA Data. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 318,000 equal items bought within the first week, marking SZA’s first No. 1 on that chart. It dominated the favored albums chart for 10 weeks.
The Grammy-winning album was preceded by “Good Days,” “I Hate U,” and “Shirt.” It additionally included different hits reminiscent of “Kill Invoice” and “Snooze.”
On April 19, SZA will kick off her co-headlining Grand Nationwide Tour along with her longtime collaborator and TDE affiliate Kendrick Lamar. The superstars will play throughout 19 stadiums in North America earlier than concluding June 18 in Washington, D.C.
SZA is featured on Lamar’s newest album, GNX, on the fan-favorite “luther” and “gloria.” The latter album, which debuted at No. 1, is at the moment No. 2 in its sixth week on the Billboard 200.