SZA :: The ‘SOS’ Era

[jjavier1978]

Czech Republic

16 (-02) 02 SOS

Slovakia

12 (+03) 02 SOS

[Mugen]

[theMathematician]

Switzerland

[03] (10) 04 SOS *new peak*
23 (66) 04 Kill Bill

Any idea why the album is doing so well in Switzerland? It's doing much better than in Germany and Austria but also France, which are usually the countries of reference for Swiss taste in music...

[Nost]

[Bennyyyyyy]

She’s really slaying left and right!

Super smart to release the video for „Kill Bill“ so fast after it took off as well.

Would be great if she would release physical versions of the album soon as well.

[Nost]

[jjavier1978]

Austria

14 (26) 03 SOS

39 (NEW) 01 Kill Bill

[Bennyyyyyy]

Spotify Global


7,840,759 streams (+ 1,043,985)

[Nost]

[Nost]

Australia :

#1 (+1) Kill Bill GOLD (35,000)
#41 (+2) Nobody Gets Me

#2 (=) SOS

[Bennyyyyyy]

Germany

29 (63) Kill Bill - SZA *new peak*

[thebigham]

https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-h...source=twitter

SZA Drops Four-Track ‘Kill Bill’ Bundle
By Gil Kaufman
01/13/2023

The EP features the original, a sped-up version, as well as instrumental and vocal takes.

SZA has quadrupled down on the success of her hit “Kill Bill.” On Friday (Jan. 13), the singer dropped a four-track “Kill Bill” bundle featuring the original song, as well as a sped-up version, instrumental and vocal takes. The track from the singer’s Billboard 200 No. 1 album SOS leapt to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart this week, marking her first chart-topper on the list.


“Kill Bill” raced to No. 1 from No. 11, surpassing its prior No. 5 high set upon its debut three weeks earlier. The song marks the first No. 1 for the St. Louis-born, New Jersey-raised singer-songwriter, among three top 10s.


The quad-song release came just days after SZA dropped the blood-drenched video for the fictitious murder-confession song directed by Christian Breslauer. The cinematic clip pays homage to Quentin Tarantino’s early aughts revenge film of the same name, and features a cameo from Vivica A. Fox, who played the kick-ass character Vernita Green opposite Uma Thurman’s sword-wielding Bride. The high-octane mini action movie blends anime, fantasy and buckets of blood.

“I love Vivica A. Fox’s character. I love Lucy Liu’s character. I even love Bill because he’s super complex,” SZA told EW of the original 2003-2004 films. “I feel like he doesn’t understand why he did what he did. He’s void of emotion, but he loved The Bride so much that he couldn’t stand her to be with anyone else. That was really complex and cool to me. It’s a love story. I just watched it again for inspiration for the music video that we’re gonna shoot for ‘Kill Bill.’”

[Nost]

UK :

#3 (+1) Kill Bill
#27 (-2) Shirt
#33 (-4) Nobody Gets Me

#2 (=) SOS total: 58,125 units

[jjavier1978]

New Zealand

01 (01) 05 SOS (GOLD)
01 (01) 05 Kill Bill (GOLD)
38 (NEW) 01 Low

[jjavier1978]

Finland

14 (12) 05 SOS
17 (NEW) 01 Kill Bill

[jjavier1978]

Norway

01 (01) 05 SOS
05 (05) 05 KIll Bill

[jjavier1978]

Netherlands

01 (01) 05 SOS
17 (25) 05 Kill Bill

[jjavier1978]

Italy

35 (48) 05 SOS

[jjavier1978]

Switzerland

05 (03) 05 SOS
17 (23) 05 Kill Bill

[Nost]

[Nost]

[Mugen]

[jordi_89]

How is she doing so well outside the US? I didn't know she was that popular overseas.

[Nost]

France :

#59 (+17) Kill Bill

#38 (+5) SOS

[thebigham]

http://www.billboard.com/music/chart...rt-1235199592/

SZA’s ‘SOS’ Spends Fifth Straight Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200
By Keith Caulfield
01/15/2023

SZA’s SOS spends a fifth consecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 21). It earned 125,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Jan. 12 (down less than 1%), according to Luminate.

Only four albums have spent at least five weeks at No. 1 since the start of 2022: in order from most recent, SOS, Taylor Swift’s Midnights (five), Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti (13) and the Encanto soundtrack (nine).

SOS is the first album to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 since Adele’s 30 ruled the list for its first six weeks (its total run at No. 1) from Dec. 4, 2021-Jan. 8, 2022.

The last R&B album by a solo woman with five weeks at No. 1 was Mariah Carey’s Daydream, which notched six nonconsecutive weeks from Oct. 21, 1995, to Jan. 13, 1996 (although, the last R&B album by an all-female act to have five weeks at No. 1 was FanMail by the trio TLC, with five nonconsecutive weeks in charge in 1999 [March 13-May 8]).

And, the last R&B album by a woman to spend its first five weeks at No. 1 was Janet Jackson’s janet., which topped the list for its first six frames (June 5-July 10, 1993). (R&B albums are defined as those that have hit or are eligible for Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.)