{"id":543226,"date":"2023-01-25T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/szas-sos-is-close-to-breaking-record-set-by-ushers-confessions\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T05:30:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T02:30:03","slug":"szas-sos-is-close-to-breaking-record-set-by-ushers-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/szas-sos-is-close-to-breaking-record-set-by-ushers-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"#SZA\u2019s \u2018SOS\u2019 Is Close To Breaking Record Set By Usher\u2019s \u2018Confessions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fc26f61bfb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2fc26f61bfb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/szas-sos-is-close-to-breaking-record-set-by-ushers-confessions\/#%E2%80%9CSZAs_%E2%80%98SOS_Is_Close_To_Breaking_Record_Set_By_Ushers_%E2%80%98Confessions%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;SZA\u2019s \u2018SOS\u2019 Is Close To Breaking Record Set By Usher\u2019s \u2018Confessions\u2019&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSZAs_%E2%80%98SOS_Is_Close_To_Breaking_Record_Set_By_Ushers_%E2%80%98Confessions%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;SZA\u2019s \u2018SOS\u2019 Is Close To Breaking Record Set By Usher\u2019s \u2018Confessions\u2019&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2023\/01\/szas-sos-is-close-to-breaking-record-set-by-ushers-confessions-1200x675.png\" alt=\"SZA\u2019s \u2018SOS\u2019 Is Close To Breaking Record Set By Usher\u2019s \u2018Confessions\u2019\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\"><span>Jemal Countess\/Getty Images | <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>\/NPR Music<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy js-entry-text \" itemprop=\"articleBody\">SZA has continued her reign on top of the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 200 album chart for the sixth consecutive week, putting her within reach of a record set by Usher in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Her sophomore album\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0landed at the No. 1 position on the chart released by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-sos-number-one-billboard-200-sixth-week-1235203694\/\"><em>Billboard<\/em><\/a> on Monday (January 23), after earning an additional 119,000 equivalent album units for the week ending January 19. Those figures include about 160.1 million streams of the album\u2019s 23 tracks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit200\" class=\"adUnits\" inserted=\"shortcode\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>With this latest chart victory, SZA is now the only woman other than Adele and Taylor Swift to have spent six weeks at the top of the chart since\u00a0<em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> sensation Susan Boyle did the same with her debut album between December 2009 and January 2010. This week, SZA and Swift h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to also be the only two women in the Top 10 on the Hot 200 chart, which also includes the latest projects by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and Drake &amp; 21 Savage.<\/p>\n<p>SZA is now one week away from beating a record set by Janet Jackson in 1993. Additionally,\u00a0<em>SOS\u00a0<\/em>has now become the only R&amp;B album by any act to spend this many consecutive weeks at No. 1 since.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SZA\u2019s &#8220;SOS&#8221; is close to breaking record set by Usher\u2019s &#8220;Confessions&#8221;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/52WCdDsvQr\">https:\/\/t.co\/52WCdDsvQr<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFTe3rlWnX\">pic.twitter.com\/fFTe3rlWnX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HipHopDX\/status\/1618064123203551233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The next two benchmarks for SZA would be to eclipse the records set by Usher, whose\u00a0<em>Confessions<\/em> was the last R&amp;B album to hit No. 1 nine times, though not during consecutive weeks; and Drake who hit the top spot on the Hot 200 for 13 non-consecutive weeks with\u00a0<em>Views<\/em> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Top Dawg Entertainment president\u00a0Terrence \u201cPunch\u201d Henderson reflected on the commercial success of\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em> with a heartfelt tweet thanking everyone involved with making SZA\u2019s long-awaited follow-up to 2017\u2019s <em>Ctrl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit300\" class=\"adUnits\" inserted=\"shortcode\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMan. Sitting here thinking about all of the success and conversation surrounding\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s truly a surreal moment. Wanted to take time and say thank you to every person who was\/is involved in making this thing go! You are truly appreciated!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since delivering her second LP on December 9, SZA has celebrated a number of career milestones. In addition to becoming\u00a0her first No. 1 album,\u00a0<em>SOS<\/em>\u00a0landed the \u201cShirt\u201d singer at the top of\u00a0 Spotify\u2019s Top Artists Global daily chart on the day it was released. She knocked Bad Bunny out of the spot, becoming the first Black female artist to top the fan-driven chart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit400\" class=\"adUnits\" inserted=\"shortcode\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The songs from\u00a0<em>SOS\u00a0<\/em>have also earned SZA some accolades to add to the project\u2019s success. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/sza-debuts-20-songs-from-sos-hot-100-rules-artist-100-1235189798\/\">Twenty of the project\u2019s 23 tracks debuted on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Hot 100 chart<\/a>, with \u201cKill Bill\u201d and \u201cNobody Gets Me\u201d landing in the chart\u2019s top ten positions,\u00a0during the album\u2019s first week of release.<\/p>\n<p>On January 11, SZA delivered a\u00a0<em>Kill Bill-<\/em>themed video for her song of the same name. Directed by Christian Breslauer, the clip opens with SZA getting a break-up letter from her boyfriend, who also called on his crew to shoot up the trailer home they were living in.<\/p>\n<p>The singer survives the attack and gets a ride from co-star\u00a0Vivica A. Fox \u2014 a nod to her role in the original film \u2014 who helps SZA recover at an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>The TDE singer then gets her affairs in order and loads up on weapons to kickstart her revenge tour. She obliterates a team of sword-wielding gangsters before getting to her boyfriend in an animated scene where she gets the last laugh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit500\" class=\"adUnits\" inserted=\"shortcode\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video for \u201cKill Bill,\u201d which also features a snippet of \u201cSeek &amp; Destroy\u201d and scenes of a naked SZA tied up and hanging in a room while she sings the song\u2019s lyrics, has earned 13 million views on YouTube since its release.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Tai Saint-Louis\">by Tai Saint-Louis<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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