SZA‘s sophomore album S.O.S. has landed atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for the second week in a row, regardless of a slight drop in gross sales figures.
According to Billboard, the mission introduced in 180,000 equal album items for the week ending December 22, marking a 43 % drop compared to its first week gross sales. With this chart placement, S.O.S. has develop into the primary album by a Black feminine artist to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since Beyoncé’s eponymous 2013 album.
The album has additionally earned SZA her newest Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) plaque, with S.O.S. being licensed Gold on December 16, indicating 500,000 items bought.
Since delivering her second LP on December 9, SZA has celebrated plenty of profession milestones. In addition to changing into her first No. 1 album, S.O.S. landed the TDE songstress on the prime of Spotify’s Top Artists Global day by day chart on the day it was launched. She knocked Bad Bunny out of the spot, changing into the primary Black feminine artist to prime the fan-driven chart.
She celebrated the chart victory with a multi-slide put up on Instagram that indicated the information had not been properly obtained by all, together with a photograph that learn, “Girl, Fuck you.”
“Thank y’all so much,” she captioned the put up. “Speechless and thanking God .. sall I got for rn . Love you all so very much [heart emoji] ps I LOVE BAD BUNNY TO SHARE SPACE W HIM EVEN FOR A SECOND IS ICONIC. Don’t be dense.”
S.O.S. additionally beat out Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti as probably the most streamed album on Spotify for the week ending December 22.
In addition to its efficiency as an album, the songs from S.O.S. have additionally earned SZA some accolades. Twenty of the mission’s 22 tracks debuted on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, with “Kill Bill” and “Nobody Gets Me” landing in the chart’s prime ten positions, the outlet reported final week.
“Kill Bill” has emerged because the obvious fan favourite, incomes 43.9 million streams to shut out final week within the No. 2 place on Spotify’s Weekly Top Songs Global chart behind Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”
According to the Spotify Charts web site, SZA additionally landed probably the most songs on that particular chart final week.
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Per Chart Data, one other RIAA Gold certification could also be proper across the nook for SZA as “Kill Bill” has additionally bought over 500,000 items.
SZA is presently gearing up for her very first area tour in help of her newest album. The aptly-titled SOS Tour kicks off in Columbus, Ohio on February 21. From there, the New Jersey native will hit 17 different cities together with Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Atlanta and Dallas earlier than closing issues out in Los Angeles on March 22.
Omar Apollo is about to affix her on the highway because the tour’s opening act.
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