SZA Earns Her First No. 1 With 'SOS'
Her sophomore studio album also set the record for the fifth-biggest debut of 2022.
SZA opens this week Billboard 200 at No. 1 with SOS — her first chart-topper.
According to reports, the TDE star’s first album in over five years earned approximately 315,160 equivalent album units in its first week, including 7,640 in album sales, 1,060 in track equivalent album units and 306,455 in streaming equivalent album units, garnering almost 400 million streams and becoming the most in one week for any R&B album. In addition to being SZA’s first No. 1, SOS also sets the record for the fifth-biggest debut of 2022.
Elsewhere on the chart, Taylor Swift stays at No. 2 followed by Metro Boomin, Drake and 21 Savage and Michael Bublé at Nos. 3, 4 and 5, respectively. Making up the bottom half of this week’s top 10 are A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie at No. 6, Bad Bunny at No. 7, Nat King Cole at No. 8, the Vince Guaraldi Trio at No. 9 and Morgan Wallen at No. 10.
In other music news, SOS joins Hypebeast’s list of The Best Music Projects of 2022.
