SZA’s ‘SOS’ Is No. 1 on Best R&B Albums Chart for Report a hundredth Week

SZA’s unsinkable SOS sails to a brand new milestone on Billboard’s Best R&B Albums chart, attaining its a hundredth week at No. 1 at the checklist, which started in 2012. The album – some distance and away the list holder for the longest run atop the chart – has greater than double the weeks of another name within the most sensible slot and has spent handiest 8 of its first 108 weeks at the chart out of doors the penthouse.

SOS crosses the triple-digit mark at the chart dated Jan. 11, with 130,000 an identical album devices within the corresponding Dec. 27, 2024 to Jan. 2, 2025, monitoring week, in step with Luminate. Whilst its first 98 chart-topping weeks had been solely from its usual factor, the ultimate two frames obtained a spice up from the SOS Deluxe: Lana version, which arrived Dec. 20 and added 15 new cuts to the unique 22-song tracklist. (All variations of the album are mixed into one access for information monitoring and chart positions.)

With SOS’ newest fulfillment on Best R&B Albums, right here’s a evaluate of the initiatives with essentially the most weeks at No. 1 at the 12-year-old chart:

Weeks at No. 1, Album Identify, Artist, First Week at No. 1

Launched in December 2022, SOS was once the long-awaited follow-up to SZA’s well-received 2017 full-length debut, Ctrl. The five-year wait sparked fast fan fervor, inflicting SOS’ No. 1 entrances at the all-genre Billboard 200 and Best R&B Albums charts. The album temporarily established dominance within the R&B sphere, spending its first 48 weeks on Best R&B Albums at No. 1 as hit singles corresponding to “Kill Invoice” and “Snooze” clocked 30 weeks and 32 weeks, respectively, atop the Sizzling R&B Songs chart. Due to its sturdy reception and top intake numbers, SOS was once the year-end No. 1 name at the Best R&B Albums chart for each 2023 and 2024.

Whilst its usual version already generated record-breaking effects, the Lana deluxe addition will have to handiest extend SOS’ chart legacy. With 130,000 devices in the most recent monitoring week, SOS pulled greater than seven instances the unit general of this week’s runner-up (which, through the way in which, is SZA’s Ctrl.) The Lana bankruptcy may additional prolong nicely into the spring and summer time, when SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s Grand Nationwide excursion reaches just about two-dozen stadiums within the U.S. and Canada.

Plus, much more track could also be at the approach. On Jan. 5, Terrence “Punch” Henderson Jr. — the president of SZA’s list label, Best Dawg Leisure — posted on X, “Looking forward to some clearances to transparent up for the extra joints at the SOS Deluxe: LANA. Quickly as that’s finished it’s up!”