SZA’s ‘SOS’ Spends Fifth Straight Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 – Billboard

SZA’s SOS spends a fifth consecutive, and whole, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 21). It earned 125,000 equal album items within the U.S. within the week ending Jan. 12 (down lower than 1%), based on Luminate.

Only 4 albums have spent at least 5 weeks at No. 1 because the begin of 2022: so as from most up-to-date, SOS, Taylor Swift’s Midnights (5), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti (13) and the Encanto soundtrack (9).

SOS is the primary album to spend its first 5 weeks at No. 1 since Adele’s 30 dominated the listing for its first six weeks (its whole run at No. 1) from Dec. 4, 2021-Jan. 8, 2022.

The final R&B album by a solo girl with 5 weeks at No. 1 was Mariah Carey’s Daydream, which notched six nonconsecutive weeks from Oct. 21, 1995, to Jan. 13, 1996 (though, the final R&B album by an all-female act to have 5 weeks at No. 1 was FanMail by the trio TLC, with 5 nonconsecutive weeks in cost in 1999 [March 13-May 8]).

And, the final R&B album by a lady to spend its first 5 weeks at No. 1 was Janet Jackson’s janet., which topped the listing for its first six frames (June 5-July 10, 1993). (R&B albums are outlined as people who have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.)

Also within the new Billboard 200’s high 10, YoungBoy Never Broke Again collects his thirteenth high 10-charting effort, as his first launch for Motown, I Rest My Case, debuts at No. 9.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. based mostly on multi-metric consumption as measured in equal album items, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album gross sales, observe equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 21, 2023-dated chart might be posted in full on Billboard‘s web site on Jan. 18 – at some point later than typical, because of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day vacation within the U.S. on Jan. 16. For all chart information, comply with @billboard and @billboardcharts on each Twitter and Instagram.

Five former No. 1s rank at Nos. 2-6 on the brand new Billboard 200 – and all are non-movers as in comparison with every week in the past. Taylor Swift’s Midnights is No. 2 (81,000 equal album items earned; down 31%), adopted by Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains (57,000; up 1%), Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (51,000; down 3%), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti (45,000; down 10%) and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album (43,000; up 2%).

Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak climbs 8-7 with 33,000 equal album items earned (down lower than 1%), and Lil Baby’s chart-topping It’s Only Me rises 9-8 with 31,000 (down 1%).

YoungBoy Never Broke Again notches his thirteenth high 10-charting album on the Billboard 200, as I Rest My Case begins at No. 9 with 29,000 equal album items earned. Of that sum, SEA items comprise 27,000 (equaling 39.59 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 19 tracks) and album gross sales and TEA items comprise 1,000 every.

I Rest My Case is the rapper’s first launch for Motown after a prolific run with Atlantic, together with a dozen high 10 efforts (5 of which have been in 2022). In whole, I Rest My Case is the artist’s twenty eighth charting title on the Billboard 200 since his debut on the listing in August of 2017.

Rounding out the brand new high 10 is Harry Styles’ former No. 1 Harry’s House, which is stationary at No. 10 with 26,000 equal album items earned (down 10%).

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