Update (March 19): One week after sza’s SOS matched Michael Jacksons Thriller With 79 non-associated weeks each in the top 10 on the Billboard 200, the Grammy-winning Top Dawg/RCA Singer-Songwriter has broken that tie. Her SOS Now you can boast 80 weeks in Billboard 200’s Top 10. As mentioned in the original story below, no other black artist has so many or more weeks in the top 10 for a single album since Billboard 200 began publishing a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.
SZA’s 80th week in the top 10 occurs on the latest chart, dated March 22 (at No. 4 again). Thriller Spent 78 of its 79 weeks in the top 10 in the race My fair ladyWith 173 weeks in the top 10 of Billboard 200 from 1956-1960.
SOS was originally released on December 9, 2022 for immediate commercial success. The set debuted at No. 1 on Billboard 200 and spent 10 of the first 11 weeks on No. 1 and remained a regular fixture inside the top 20. The album received another wind – including two weeks to # 1 – after the release of his SOS: Deluxe Lana Edition, which fell on December 22, 2024 and added 15 new numbers. (All versions of the album are combined for tracking and mapping purposes and continues to map under the title SOS.)
“Luther,” Szas Duet with Kendrick Lamar, now has four weeks at No. 1 and breaks Lamar’s personal best. It is also Sza’s longest leading hot 100 # 1: her previous two- “Kill Bill” and as a highlighted action on Drake’s “Slime You Out” had every week on top in 2023.
Original History (12 March): SZA has hit another short milestone. The singer/songwriter SOS have tied with Michael Jacksons Thriller, Collection of 79 Collected, non -contemporary weeks each in the top 10 on Billboard 200. No other black artist has so many or more weeks in the top 10 for an album.
“My album that binds mj’s Thriller Record … got me speechless, ”told a shocked sza TMZ hip-hop After her performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday night. In his own social media post at X, Top Dawg Entertainment described president and SZA manager Terrence “Punch” Henderson briefly the big apartment with a word: “insane”, followed by two praying hands emoji.
SOS reached its 79th week in the top 10 on the latest chart, dated March 15, when it kept stable on No. 4. MJs Thriller claimed its 79th week in the top 10 when it jumped 115-7 on December 2, 2022-dated chart after its 40th anniversary.
For those who are wondering, the record in most weeks in the top 10 is reached by any album the original role crew to My fair ladyWith 173 weeks in the top 10 of Billboard 200.
Sza’s latest chart performance comes in the wake of other good news this week: “Luther,” Her duet with soon to-to-Tourmate Kendrick Lamar, celebrating his third week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100.
Lamar and Sza’s highly expected Grand National Tour starts April 19 in Minneapolis.