SZA Guidelines Album Chart for Ninth Week, as Rihanna Reenters Prime 10 and Paramore Roars In at No. 2

Months after its Dec. 9 launch, SZA’s “SOS” continues to be driving excessive.

This week, the 23-song set tops the Billboard 200 for the ninth week — the best tally for a female-led album in virtually seven years. The final two albums by ladies to attain 9 or extra weeks on the summit within the final decade had been Adele’s “25,” which boasted 10 nonconsecutive weeks in 2015-16, and earlier than that, Taylor Swift’s “1989” dominated for 11 weeks in 2014-15. Within the week ending Feb. 16, SZA’s sophomore launch earned 93,000 items within the U.S. and 127 million streams in keeping with information by Luminate.

Following Rihanna’s highly-anticpated return to the stage for the Tremendous Bowl halftime set on Feb. 12, the star’s 2016 launch “Anti” rebounded to No. 8 on the chart (from its prevous No. 50 place) with 36,000 album items offered. On Spotify, her streams spiked greater than 640% throughout the U.S, whereas streams for the set’s opening observe, “Bitch Higher Have My Cash,” surged by over 2,600%.

In reality, ever since Rihanna was introduced because the halftime performer final September, three of her songs (“Umbrella,” “We Discovered Love” and “Love on the Mind”) crossed the billion-stream mark on Spotify. 

New within the charts this week is Paramore’s “This Is Why,” which debuts at No. 2 on the record because the reunited pop-rock trio‘s highest-charting album in practically a decade. As one of many yr’s most-anticipated rock releases, the set enters with the equal of 64,000 items earned, with album gross sales comprising 47,000 of that sum and 21 million streams. The band’s final charting effort was 2017’s “After Laughter,” which debuted and peaked at No. 6.

The highest of the record is dominated by Swift’s “Midnights” is at No. 3 with 60,000 items earned, whereas Morgan Wallen’s unshakable “Harmful: The Double Album” is at No. 4 with 44,000 items in its 107th nonconsecutive week within the prime 10. The nation singer holds probably the most weeks within the prime 10 for an album by a single artist (the all-time prime 10 record-holder is the unique solid recording of “My Honest Girl,” with 173 weeks within the prime 10 between 1956-60).

Unhealthy Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” is at No. 5 with practically 44,000 items; Metro Boomin’s “Heroes & Villains” is at No. 6 with 43,000 items; and Drake and 21 Savage’s “Her Loss” is at No. 7 with 40,000 items. The highest 10 rounds out with two former No. 1s: Harry Kinds’ “Harry’s Home” at No. 9 (33,000 items) and Tomorrow x Collectively’s “The Title Chapter: Temptation” at No. 10 (32,000 items).