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On the list dated October 31, 2026, revealed on Sunday, October 25, the 2022 album steps up from No. 11 to No. 10 with 30,000 album-equivalent units for the tracking week that closed on October 22, a total that slipped by less than 1% from the week before. No hip hop or R&B album debuted inside the top 10 this week. The only new arrival up there was Zach Bryan’s eight-song Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs at No. 2, behind Olivia Rodrigo, whose you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love returned to No. 1 with 75,000 units after a new “Expectations” remix with Chappell Roan. That leaves two veterans carrying the genre in the upper reaches: SZA at No. 10 and Drake at No. 7. Drake’s Habibti cools after its reissue spike Drake’s Habibti slips from No. 6 to No. 7 with 35,000 units, down 20%. Working backward from that drop, the album earned roughly 43,750 units the previous week, so it shed close to 8,750 in seven days. That is the expected comedown from the October reissue we covered when Habibti (FOMO) sent the album to No. 1 on the R&B/hip hop albums chart; the record had jumped to No. 2 overall that week on 71,000 units, so this week’s figure is about half of that peak. SZA’s number tells the opposite story. A drop of under 1% means SOS is not riding a spike at all. It is simply holding a level of listening that most new releases never reach. How long SOS has been doing this Top Dawg Entertainment and RCA Records released SOS on December 9, 2022. Guests on its 23 songs included Travis Scott, Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and it opened at No. 1 with 318,000 units. Here is the run since then, in order: 2022 to 2023: ten weeks at No. 1, the first R&B/hip hop album to manage that many since Drake’s Views in 2016. December 20, 2024: SZA reissues it as SOS Deluxe: Lana, adding 15 songs, one with Kendrick Lamar. January 2025: the album returns to No. 1 for an 11th week, the longest gap between weeks at the top in the chart’s history, which dates back to 1956. 2025: it becomes the first album by a woman to log 100 weeks in the top 10 and passes Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the longest-running top-10 album by a Black artist. Count the days and the scale is clearer. From release day to the end of this tracking week is 1,413 days, or just under 202 weeks. An album that close to its fourth birthday is still pulling 30,000 units in a single week, about 9% of its own opening total of 318,000 and 40% of what this week’s No. 1 managed. A small share at the top Add up the top 10 and the genre’s weak week shows. The ten albums earned about 456,500 units between them: 75,000 for Rodrigo, 65,500 for Bryan, 54,000 for Morgan Wallen, 49,000 for Ella Langley, 42,000 for Taylor Swift, 40,000 and 33,000 for Noah Kahan’s two albums, nearly 33,000 for Olivia Dean, plus Drake and SZA. Drake and SZA together account for 65,000, or about 14.2% of that total, less than Rodrigo earned on her own. Earlier this month, Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine re-entered the top 10 at No. 10 on its 10th anniversary, with 32,000 units on the chart dated October 17. SZA’s return comes at a slightly lower figure, without a reissue, bonus songs or an anniversary to push it. The album has also been a fixture at awards season. It won Best Progressive R&B Album at the 66th Grammy Awards, and in November 2025 it became the most-nominated album in the history of the Grammys, with 14 nominations. SOS turns four on December 9. Further reading Wikipedia: SOS (SZA album) Wikipedia: List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2026 Image: swimfinfan from Chicago, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.", "markdown": "https://badiyaa.com/sza-sos-top-10-billboard-200-october-2026.md" }