SZA’s ‘SOS’ Rankings twelfth Week Atop Billboard 200 Albums Chart

SZA’s SOS secures a twelfth nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 11), proceeding to benefit from its deluxe reissue on Dec. 20 with 15 further tracks. The set surged 15-1 at the Jan. 4 chart, following the reissue (dubbed SOS Deluxe: LANA). The set was once at the start launched on Dec. 9, 2022, as a 23-track album and spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in overdue 2022 and early 2023. All variations of the album, outdated and new, are blended for monitoring and charting.

SOS earned 130,000 identical album devices within the U.S. within the week finishing Jan. 2 (down 27%), consistent with Luminate.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the preferred albums of the week within the U.S. in line with multi-metric intake as measured in identical album devices, compiled via Luminate. Devices contain album gross sales, music identical albums (TEA) and streaming identical albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 person tracks bought from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand legit audio and video streams generated via songs from an album. The brand new Jan. 11, 2025-dated chart will probably be posted in complete on Billboard‘s web page on Tuesday (Jan. 7). For all chart information, observe @billboard and @billboardcharts on each X, previously referred to as Twitter and Instagram.

Of SOS’ 130,000 identical album devices earned within the week finishing Jan. 2, SEA devices contain 125,500 (down 25%, equaling 166.31 million on-demand legit streams of the set’s songs; it holds at No. 1 at the Best Streaming Albums chart), conventional album gross sales contain 4,000 (down 59%, falling 23-36 on Best Album Gross sales) and TEA devices contain 500 (down 63%).

With a twelfth overall week at No. 1 at the Billboard 200, SOS has essentially the most weeks atop the chart for an R&B/hip-hop album via a girl, or an R&B album via a girl, since Whitney Houston’s self-titled set tallied 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1986. (Honorable point out to the Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard, which logged 20 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1992-93. The 12-track album has six songs via Houston and 6 songs via different artists.)

The remaining R&B/hip-hop album with a minimum of 12 weeks atop the Billboard 200 was once Drake’s Perspectives, which notched 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016 (Would possibly 21-Oct. 8). The remaining R&B album with a minimum of 12 weeks at No. 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 hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Best R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Best R&B Albums charts, respectively.)

As we transfer farther clear of Christmas (Dec. 25), and with the chart’s newest monitoring week masking the Dec. 27, 2024-Jan. 2, 2025 body, no vacation albums dot all the best 100 of the 200-title deep chart. Every week in the past, six of the highest 10, and 32 of the highest 100, had been vacation efforts. In flip, on the most recent chart, nonseasonal units race up the record — many with week-over-week declines in task — because the chart shakes off the festive remaining bits of merriment.

Kendrick Lamar’s former No. 1 GNX climbs 5-2 (70,000 identical album devices earned; down 9%), Sabrina Wood worker’s chart-topping Quick n’ Candy jumps 12-3 (56,000; down 7%), the Depraved movie soundtrack flies 8-4 (49,000; down 31%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Arduous and Comfortable vaults 14-5 (46,000; down 16%).

Taylor Swift’s former chief The Tortured Poets Division strikes 7-6 (44,000 identical album devices; down 40%) and Chappell Roan’s The Upward push and Fall of a Midwest Princess rises 16-7 (41,000; down 20%).

To near out the highest 10 at Nos. 8-10, 3 titles that had been outdoor the highest 20 every week in the past all rush again to the highest 10. Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Factor at a Time jumps 29-8 (just about 41,000; up 10%), Gracie Abrams’ The Secret of Us bounces 25-9 (40,000; up 2%) and Tyler, The Author’s former No. 1 CHROMAKOPIA drives 27-10 (38,000; down not up to 1%).

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