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SZA’s ‘SOS’ Surpasses Adele’s ‘21’ for Most Weeks in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Among Albums by Women

SZA's "SOS" surpasses Adele's "21" for the most weeks spent in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 among albums by women.

Albums With the Most Weeks in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 Chart: Weeks in Top 10, Artist, Title, Year First Reached Top 10 173, Original Cast, My Fair Lady, 1956158, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album, 2023109, Soundtrack, The Sound of Music, 1965106, Morgan Wallen, One Thing at a Time, 2023106, Soundtrack, West Side Story, 1962105, Original Cast, The Sound of Music, 196090, Soundtrack, South Pacific, 195887, Original Cast, Camelot, 196187, Original Cast, Oklahoma!, 195685, SZA, SOS, 202285, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter, Paul and Mary, 196284, Adele, 21, 201184, Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A., 1984(From March 24, 1956, through the April 26, 2025-dated chart) Because of how the Billboard 200 chart is now compiled, where streaming activity is blended with album sales and track sales, albums tend to spend a longer time on the list thanks to continued streaming activity. Also, a lengthy tracklist with multiple popular songs can help accrue large streaming totals, so albums like SOS, One Thing at a Time and Dangerous — each with more than 30 songs apiece — benefit from the continued weekly streams of their long tracklists.

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