SZA‘s chart success with her latest project doesn’t appear to have increased her motivation to remain in the music game — quite the opposite, if a new social media post is to be believed.
On Saturday (January 4), the singer posted to X that she intended to take a very different direction on her next two albums, and then change jobs entirely.
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“To fulfill my last 2 album requirements I think I just wanna make peaceful children’s music n get outta here,” she wrote. “Then go be a farmer n donate the produce to underserved communities.”
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To fulfill my last 2 album requirements I think I just wanna make peaceful children’s music n get outta here . Then go be a farmer n donate the produce to underserved communities.
— SZA (@sza) January 4, 2025
The message about quitting music caught some fans by surprise because SZA’s SOS had just recently returned to the top of the Billboard 200 thanks to her Lana deluxe album.
Originally released in 2022 to huge critical acclaim and commercial success, the project shot back to number one following the arrival of its 15-track deluxe on December 20, according to Billboard.
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For the purposes of the chart, all versions of the album are combined under the title SOS and the project has shifted 178,000 equivalent units in the first week of Lana‘s release.
If Lana had been released as a standalone project, it would have still debuted atop the Billboard 200 with its 15 songs amassing 105,000 units on their own — 5,000 more than Michael Bublé’s Christmas which sat at number two on that week’s chart.
Twenty two months have passed since SOS last topped the Billboard 200, making it the longest gap that any album has returned to the top spot.
SZA’s blockbuster sophomore LP has now spent 11 nonconsecutive weeks at number one and has never fallen out of the top 20 of the chart since its release two years ago.
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SZA celebrated the continued success of SOS by telling fans “thank you” on her Instagram Stories.
She also wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “If it wasn’t for Gods favor over my life this year boyyy. My parents are healthy. won 3 Grammys. went number one again. Sang on Sesame Street. Shot a movie. Shot a vogue cover. Toured the world. Got a songwriters hall of fame award. WHO JAH BLESS NO MAN CURSE!! NO MAN!!! AMEN.”
