SZA Earns First No 1 Album On Billboard 200 With ‘SOS’ @ Top40-Charts.com
The 23-track set, which options Travis Scott, Don Toliver, and Ol’ Soiled Bastard, turns into the fifth-largest debut of the 12 months following Taylor Swift’s Midnights (1.578 million), Harry Types’ Harry’s Home (521,000), Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (404,000), and Beyoncé’s Renaissance (332,000).
With 404.58 million official on-demand streams, SOS is the largest streaming week ever for an R&B album, the second-largest streaming week ever for an album by a feminine artist, and the third-largest streaming week of 2022 for any album after Midnights (250.23 million) and Her Loss (513.56 million).
Two songs off the album debut within the prime 10 on the Billboard Scorching 100, “Kill Bill” at No. 3 and “Nobody Gets Me” at No. 10.
SOS arrives greater than 5 years after SZA’s breakout album Ctrl, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 60,000 models. It went on to maneuver 3.9 million equal album models and has remained on the chart after 288 consecutive weeks.
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie additionally returns to the highest 10 with Me vs. Myself, which opens at No. 6 with 53,000 equal album models, his fourth prime 10 album.
Elsewhere, Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains falls 1-3 (102,000) in its second week, whereas Her Loss slides 3-4 (67,000).
Billboard 200 High 10:
1. SZA – SOS – 318,000
2. Taylor Swift – Midnights – 139,000
3. Metro Boomin – Heroes & Villains – 102,000
4. Drake and 21 Savage – Her Loss – 67,000
5. Michael Bublé – Christmas – 62,000
6. A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Me vs. Myself – 53,000
7. Bad Bunny – Un Verano Sin Ti – 51,000
8. Nat King Cole – The Christmas Music – 47,000
9. Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas – 47,000
10. Morgan Wallen – Harmful: The Double Album – 45,000
