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SZA’s ‘SOS’ is the No. 1 Album in the Country
Congratulations are in order for SZA.
The first lady of TDE now holds the no.1 spot on the Billboard 200 with her sophomore album, SOS.
SOS has sold 318,000 equivalent album units making it the fifth-largest debut of 2022 following Taylor Swift’s Midnights (1.578 million), Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (521,000), Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (404,000) and Beyoncé’s Renaissance (332,000).
SZA also made history with SOS being the biggest streaming week for an R&B album, the second-largest streaming week ever for an album by a female artist, and third-largest streaming week of 2022.
BIGGER THANK YOU !!!!!!! 🤍 https://t.co/QlowfG8far
— SZA (@sza) December 19, 2022
SOS is a follow-up to SZA’s 2017 album Ctrl. Ctrl debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 units. Since then, the album has moved 3.9 million equivalent album units and has remained on the chart for over 288 consecutive weeks.