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

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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.

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Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Discogs, Billboard.

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