It’s been a month since SZA dropped her sophomore studio album SOS and she hasn’t left the top of the charts ever since. SOS topped the Billboard 200 chart for the fourth consecutive week, setting several major milestones in its wake.
SOS returned to No. 1 with 125,000 equivalent album units earned in the US, four weeks after debuting atop the chart. It initially hit No. 1 with 318,000 units and set the record for the largest streaming week for an R&B album.
Four weeks later, SOS is still breaking new ground. It’s the first R&B album by a female artist to spend four weeks at No. 1 since Alicia Keys’ As I Am in 2008. It’s also the first album by a female artist to spend its first four weeks atop the chart since Adele’s 30.
SZA admitted she was scared to share SOS with the world because she expected it to be a flop. It’s her most experimental project to date and it saw her tackling many different genres because she didn’t want to be “boxed into anything”.
“The sound is a little bit of literally everything. It’s a little angry as an overview, but some of it is really beautiful and soft and heartfelt. It’s about heartbreak, it’s about being lost, it’s about being pissed,” SZA told People.
