Billboard 200: SZA’s ‘SOS’ Makes HISTORIC Return to #1 Thanks to Deluxe Edition ‘LANA’

As predicted, SZA‘s blockbuster sophomore album ‘SOS‘ has not only returned to the top of the Billboard 200 thanks to its highly anticipated deluxe edition ‘LANA‘ but has done so in a MAJOR way.

SZA’s ‘LANA’

First-Week Sales (SPS): 178,000 units

First-Week Sales (Pure): 10,000 units

Billboard 200 Position: #1

After ample teasing, ‘LANA’ (albeit delayed) finally arrived to digital shelves on Friday morning (December 20).

By the end of its inaugural tracking week, the deluxe project had soared to sales of 178,000 units total – a figure comprised of 167,000 units garnered by streaming (derived from 220.22 million on-demand official streams) while the other 11,000 is made up of traditional album and track equivalent sales.

The numbers above were enough needed to top this week’s Billboard 200 – a feat that’s accompanied with some historic news.

“With its return to No. 1, the set collects an 11th nonconsecutive week atop the list, and its first since the March 4, 2023-dated chart. That 22-month gap between weeks at No. 1 is the longest for any album since the Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956,” reports Billboard.

As if that isn’t enough to celebrate, SZA promised her fans even more new music will hit digital shelves before the end of the year.