SZA's 'SOS' Billboard 200 Receipts: 13 Weeks at No. 1, 100 Weeks in the Top 10

SZA's SOS is still the R&B album every chart conversation runs through. Released Dec. 9, 2022 on Top Dawg and RCA, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 318,000 equivalent album units and has since spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in three separate years, according to the album's chart history on Wikipedia), which compiles Billboard's weekly reports.

Here are the receipts, all checked against that record.

What we know

• Release: SOS came out Dec. 9, 2022, on streaming and download, with CD and vinyl following on May 19, 2023 (Wikipedia)).
• Debut: It opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 318,000 equivalent album units (Wikipedia)).
• Opening streams: Its first week brought 404.58 million on-demand official streams, the second-biggest streaming week ever for an album by a woman and the biggest ever for an R&B album (Wikipedia)).
• First run at No. 1: It held the top spot for 10 nonconsecutive weeks across 2022 and 2023, the first album by a woman to reach 10 weeks at No. 1 since Adele's 25 (Wikipedia)).
• The comeback: After the deluxe reissue Lana arrived, SOS returned to No. 1 for an 11th week in early 2025. That set the record for the longest gap between weeks at No. 1 for any album (Wikipedia)).
• Total: 13 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, spread over three different calendar years (Wikipedia)).
• Top 10 longevity: It was the first album by a woman to spend 100 weeks in the Billboard 200 top 10. In 2025 it passed Michael Jackson's Thriller as the longest-running top 10 album by a Black artist (Wikipedia)).
• Singles: Every single from the album except "Shirt" reached the Hot 100 top 10, and that includes the No. 1 "Kill Bill." "Snooze" was the only song to stay on the Hot 100 for the whole of 2023 (Wikipedia)).
• Certification: The RIAA has certified it 8x Platinum in the U.S. (Wikipedia)).
• Year-end: It placed No. 3 on the Billboard 200 year-end chart in 2023, No. 6 in 2024 and No. 3 again in 2025 (Wikipedia)).

Context

Most blockbuster albums peak in their first month and slowly slide out of the conversation. SOS went the other way. It finished in the year-end top 10 three years running, and it returned to No. 1 almost two years after its first run on top, which no album had done with a gap that long.

That staying power is why the album keeps landing in record talk next to Thriller. For hip-hop and R&B fans, it settles a long-running argument too: a woman's R&B album can outlast nearly every rap and pop release on the chart week after week, years after drop day.

The album also dominated the singles side. "Kill Bill" went to No. 1 and "Snooze" never left the Hot 100 in 2023, so even fans who never sat through all 67 minutes probably streamed a big part of it.

What's unconfirmed

• Newer chart moves for SOS, including where it sits on the latest Billboard 200 and any new all-time record for weeks in the top 10 by a woman, are not included here. We'll add them once we can confirm them in Billboard's own chart report.

Which SOS track has aged best for you: "Kill Bill," "Snooze" or "Good Days"? Send this to the friend who still has it on repeat.