SZA Equals Whitney Houston Chart Record With 'SOS'

Singer SZA performs at Amazon Music’s Prime Day concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Whitney Houston set a chart record almost 40 years ago with her song “I Will Always Love You.” Now, Top Dawg Entertainment singer SZA’s second album is at the top of the Billboard 200 chart for the seventh week in a row.

‘SOS’ by @SZA becomes the first R&B album to spend its first seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 since Whitney Houston’s ‘Whitney’ in 1987. pic.twitter.com/VxLLSKvwTB

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 29, 2023

In the last week, it sold about 111,000 album-equivalent units. Since Whitney Houston’s album Whitney in 1987, SOS is the first R&B album to spend its first seven weeks at number one. When it came out, Whitney was the first R&B album by a woman to go straight to the top of the chart.

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SZA’s SOS is the first album to spend seven consecutive weeks at number one since the Encanto soundtrack in March 2022, and it is the first female album to spend its first seven weeks at number one since Adele’s 25 in 2016.