SZA Scores Her First No. 1 Album, Logging Fifth-Biggest Debut Week of 2022

SZA’s “SOS” easily squeezed past the holiday and year-end bustle to top the Billboard 200 with the fifth-best debut week of 2022, also becoming the R&B singer’s first No. 1 album on the list. With genre-crossing features from guests including Travis Scott and Phoebe Bridgers, “SOS” posted 318,000 album units in the U.S. in its opening week, a majority of the sum being powered by the punch of its streaming activity. The 23-song set logged 405 million on-demand streams, earning the second-largest streaming week ever for an album by a female artist (Swift’s “Midnights” tallied 549.26 million), and the third-largest… Read Full Article