SZA’s ‘SOS’ Captures 13th Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

SZA’s SOS rankings a thirteenth nonconsecutive moment at Negative. 1 at the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Might 3), because the eager rises 3-1 with 52,000 identical copy gadgets earned in america within the moment finishing April 24 (indisposed 1%), in line with Luminate. The copy continues to make the most of its expansive deluxe reissue on Dec. 20, 2024 (dubbed SOS Deluxe: LANA), with 15 supplementary tracks, along with a Feb. 9 reissue with 4 extra bonus cuts.

SOS was once at first excused on Dec. 9, 2022, as a 23-track copy and spent 10 weeks at Negative. 1 in past due 2022 and early 2023. It upcoming returned to No. 1 for 2 extra weeks, following the LANA enlargement — at the Jan. 4 and 11, 2025-dated charts, and now at the actual tally. All variations of the copy, impaired and brandnew, are mixed for monitoring and charting below the name SOS.

With SOS incomes 52,000 gadgets within the actual monitoring moment, that marks the smallest weekly sum for a Negative. 1 copy in over 3 years, for the reason that April 23, 2022-dated chart, when Lil Durk’s 7220 returned to Negative. 1, for a 2d moment on the supremacy, with only a minute greater than 47,000 gadgets.

For the primary life in a minute over two months, deny albums debut within the supremacy 10 at the Billboard 200. We endmost had a supremacy 10 absent of a debut at the Feb. 22-dated record, when the very best arrival was once outdoor the supremacy 40 (Dream Theater’s Parasomnia at Negative. 41).

Year there are not any debuts within the supremacy 10 at the actual chart, there’s a name attaining the area for the primary life, as Doechii’s Alligator Bites By no means Heal flies 24-10 following its wider availability on vinyl, in addition to its first let go on CD.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks essentially the most common albums of the moment within the U.S. in accordance with multi-metric intake as leisurely in identical copy gadgets, compiled by means of Luminate. Gadgets include copy gross sales, music identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Each and every unit equals one copy sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an copy, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand professional audio and video streams generated by means of songs from an copy. The brandnew Might 3, 2025-dated chart might be posted in complete on Billboard‘s website online on April 29. For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of SOS’ 52,000 identical copy gadgets earned within the moment finishing April 24, SEA gadgets include 49,500 (indisposed 1%, equaling 68.29 million on-demand professional streams of the eager’s songs; it rises 2-1 at the Manage Streaming Albums chart, for a 3rd nonconsecutive moment on supremacy of the year-and-a-half impaired rating), conventional copy gross sales include 2,500 (indisposed 5%) and TEA gadgets include a little sum (up 2%).

With a thirteenth overall moment at Negative. 1 at the Billboard 200, SOS has essentially the most weeks atop the chart for an R&B/hip-hop copy by means of a lady, or an R&B copy by means of a lady, since Whitney Houston’s self-titled eager tallied 14 weeks at Negative. 1 in 1986. (Honorable point out to the Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard, which logged 20 nonconsecutive weeks at Negative. 1 in 1992-93. The 12-track copy has six songs by means of Houston and 6 songs by means of alternative artists.)

The endmost R&B/hip-hop copy with a minimum of 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200 was once Drake’s Perspectives, which notched 13 nonconsecutive weeks at Negative. 1 in 2016 (Might 21-Oct. 8). The endmost R&B copy with a minimum of 13 weeks at Negative. 1 at the Billboard 200 was once The Bodyguard, with its 20-week reign. (R&B/hip-hop and R&B albums are outlined as those who have crash or are eligible for Billboard’s Manage R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Manage R&B Albums charts, respectively.)

SZA launched her co-headlining Brilliant Nationwide Excursion on April 19 in Minneapolis at U.S. Reserve Stadium with Kendrick Lamar, who sees his chart-topping GNX conserve stable at Negative. 2 at the Billboard 200 with just about 51,000 identical copy gadgets earned (indisposed 7%).

The titles at Nos. 3-9 are all former Negative. 1s. Morgan Wallen’s One Factor at a Day climbs 6-3 (48,000 identical copy gadgets earned, up 4%); Sabrina Chippie’s Scale down n’ Candy is stable at Negative. 4 (47,000; indisposed 9%); PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is a non-mover at Negative. 5 (46,000; indisposed 11%); Sinful Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos falls 6-8 (39,000; indisposed 7%); Playboi Carti’s MUSIC is desk bound at Negative. 7 (38,000; indisposed 15%); Woman Gaga’s MAYHEM is up 10-8 (37,000; indisposed 6%); and Wallen’s Bad: The Double Brochure jumps 14-9 (34,500; up 6%).

Doechii earns her first supremacy 10-charting try at the Billboard 200 albums chart because the 2025 Billboard Woman of the Year’s Grammy Award-winning Alligator Bites By no means Heal flies 24-10 following a much wider availability on vinyl and its first let go on CD. The eager earned 33,000 identical copy gadgets within the monitoring moment (up 43%). Of that determine, SEA gadgets include 18,500 (indisposed 3%, equaling 25.9 million on-demand professional streams of the songs at the streaming version of the eager, it strikes 28-27 on Manage Streaming Albums), copy gross sales include 14,000 (up 325% — the most efficient gross sales moment for each the copy and the artist; it reenters at Negative. 1 on Manage Brochure Gross sales, the eager’s first moment atop the record) and TEA gadgets include 500 (indisposed 12%).

Alligator Bites By no means Heal was once excused in 2024 as a 19-song copy. It was once reissued in March with one bonus music — the gone-viral breakout crash “Anxiety” — on “extended” virtual obtain and streaming editions. All bodily variations include the actual 19-song tracklist. Till April 18, the eager was once handiest to be had to buy as a obtain and in two vinyl variants. On April 19, it garnered a much wider availability on vinyl, together with two brandnew vinyl editions (each colour variants) solely to be had by way of Goal and City Oufitters, at the side of a broadly to be had CD.

“Anxiety” reached the top 10 of the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart dated March 29 (emerging 13-10), marking Doechii’s first supremacy 10. The copy yielded an previous supremacy 40-charting crash with “Denial Is a River” (hitting Negative. 21 in February).

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