SZA albums and songs sales
A promising rising star for several years, the super hyped comeback of SZA with her second effort SOS shoot her to the top of the R&B field.
The singer, real name Solána Imani Rowe, smashed in the US with her Ctrl debut, and then gained worldwide recognition from her feature on Doja Cat‘s Kiss Me More. We review her numbers.
Last sales update: December 22, 2022.
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SZA Albums Sales
Figures listed in this section reflect pure sales of long playing formats, either albums, compilations or videos. Of course, streams are excluded.
SZA Songs Sales
In this section, figures reflect all metrics of songs’ sales, these are audio streams, video streams, and sales (physical singles, downloads, ringtones).
In order to do so, these numbers are converted into Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS), according to the formula below.
( Spotify * ArtistRatio + Genie * 2.20 + AWA * 100 / 4 + Anghami + Boomplay + Audiomack ) / 1500 + ( QQ views* 50(or 5) + YouTube * 1.1 ) / 6750 + Digital sales (DL+RT) * 0.15 + Physical sales * 0.30
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SZA CSPC Results
In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.
As a reminder:
- Studio Album: sales of the original album
- Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
- Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
- Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
- Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)
Artist career totals
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Her debut album, Ctrl, cracks 5 million equivalent album sales. The 2017 record is already a modern day classic. It never left the Billboard 200 chart since its release and seems poised to stay much longer.
SOS is just getting started, but already claims 2 million sales on its own. SZA is also exploding abroad, with Kill Bill currently standing at #1 on Spotify’s global chart.
On top of her solo albums, the artist went into various side projects. Her orphan folder includes participations on many soundtracks, including Black Panther‘s All the Stars, while her features are led by Doja Cat‘s Kiss Me More and Maroon 5‘s What Lovers Do.
All in all, her career moved 13.3 million equivalent album sales so far. Will she able to hit 20 million during the year 2023?
Singles CSPC results
The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
1. 2011 – SZA & Kendrick Lamar – All the Stars [Orphan] – 1,640,000
2. 2012 – SZA – The Weekend [Ctrl] – 1,200,000
3. 2015 – Doja Cat ft. SZA – Kiss Me More [Features] – 1,000,000
4. 2015 – SZA ft. Travis Scott – Love Galore [Ctrl] – 990,000
5. 2015 – Maroon 5 ft. SZA – What Lovers Do [Features] – 950,000
6. 2015 – SZA – Good Days [SOS] – 900,000
7. 2015 – SZA – Broken Clocks [Ctrl] – 580,000
Dynamic Spotify Key Performance Indicators
Please note that numbers below are retrieved automatically, so they will evolve day by day unlike previously listed data which is valid as of the publication date of the article.
SZA
Current followers count: 19,162,938 19,000,000 followers have been reached on 04/12/24 18,000,000 followers have been reached on 02/29/24 17,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/15/24 16,000,000 followers have been reached on 11/29/23 15,000,000 followers have been reached on 10/01/23 14,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/07/23 13,000,000 followers have been reached on 06/12/23 12,000,000 followers have been reached on 04/18/23 11,000,000 followers have been reached on 02/28/23 10,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/12/23 >> Daily breakdown
SZA is #92 among the most followed artists of all-time >> Visit our Top 5,000 most followed artists ranking
Current streams count: 17,916,116,650 17,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 03/04/24 16,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/09/24 15,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/09/23 14,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 09/13/23 13,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 07/09/23 12,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 06/27/23 13,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 06/25/23 12,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 05/09/23 11,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 03/23/23 10,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 02/11/23 >> Daily breakdown
SZA is #52 among the most streamed artists of all-time Popularity Rating: /100 >> Visit our Top 1,000 most streamed artists ranking >> Visit our Top 20 highest rated artists ranking
Current monthly listeners: 69,320,050 (Trend: -3,301,233) Global chart position: #16 The artist top 50 cities come from 16 distinct countries >> Global impact breakdown
Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Discogs, Billboard.
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