SZA made quite a splash with her highly-anticipated sophomore studio album S.O.S. and the sales certainly reflect that. S.O.S. debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming the singer’s first No. 1 album and breaking the record for the largest streaming week for an R&B album.
S.O.S. was released on December 9 and it easily reached the top with 318,000 units earned during its first week on the chart. SZA hit No. 1 with 318,000 equivalent album units earned, compromising 309,500 in SEA units, 7,500 in album sales, and 1,000 in TEA units. This marks the fifth-largest debut of 2022, in addition to the third-largest streaming week for any album released this year.
S.O.S. is SZA’s most experimental project to date, and we’ve seen her explore many different genres, from R&B to hip-hop and grunge. The singer admitted she was anxious about sharing it with the world and thought it would be a flop.
“I never thought in a million years that people would like it. My dad’s visiting right now, with my mom. Everybody came down to make sure I didn’t lose my mind if the album went bad once it came out. And now we’re just hanging out, ’cause it didn’t go badly!” the singer told The Rolling Stone.
