SZA's 'SOS' Returns To No. 1 on Billboard 200 Following Release of Deluxe Album 'Lana'
Meanwhile, six holiday albums place themselves in this week’s top 10.
SZA is back at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard 200 with SOS, following the release of the album’s deluxe version Lana.
The updated edition earns a total of 178,000 equivalent album units in the week ending December 26, with 167,000 in streaming equivalent album units (220.22 million on-demand streams of the songs), 10,000 in album sales and 1,000 in track equivalent album units. This marks the album’s 11th nonconsecutive week atop the Billboard 200. SOS also holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1 for an R&B/hip-hop album by a woman since Mariah Carey in 1991, and has the longest gap between weeks at No. 1 with 22 months.
Several holiday albums join the week’s top 10 in line with the festivities, including Michael Bublé’s Christmas at No. 2, Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas at No. 3, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song at No. 4, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas at No. 6, A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector at No. 9 and Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Christmas at No. 10.
Elsewhere on the chart, Kendrick Lamar moves down to No. 5, Taylor Swift falls to No. 7 and the Wicked film soundtrack dips to No. 8.
