SZA (singer)

SZA (2017)

SZA (born November 8, 1990 in St. Louis , Missouri ; real name Solána Imani Rowe ) is an American R&B singer and songwriter .

Life

Rowe was born in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a production manager at CNN and a manager at AT&T . She grew up in Maplewood , New Jersey and was brought up in an Orthodox Muslim . She maintains the Islamic faith to this day. After graduating from school, she began studying humanities , but dropped out after a while. Her stage name is based on the rapper RZA and the Supreme Alphabet .

Career

Rowe first became known in October 2012 when she released the EP See.SZA.Run without the involvement of a music label . The EPs S (2013) and Z (2014) followed. Her debut album Ctrl was released on June 9, 2017 and received consistently positive reviews. It immediately reached number three on the Billboard 200 . The single releases The Weekend and Love Galore went platinum in the USA in 2017 . In August 2017 she started the Ctrl the Tour . The singer has been nominated several times for the Grammy Awards 2018 , including for the best urban contemporary album.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	Ctrl	-	-	CH96 (1 week) CH	UK50 silver (2 weeks)UK	US3 × 2 Double platinum (… Where.)US	First published: June 9, 2017 Sales: + 2,060,000

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2014	Z	-	-	-	-	US39 (1 week) US	First published: April 8, 2014

More EPs

• 2012: See.SZA.Run
• 2013: p

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	Love Galore Ctrl	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US32 × 4 Quadruple platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: April 27, 2017 Sales: + 4,240,000; feat. Travis Scott
	The Weekend Ctrl	-	-	-	UK55 gold (9 weeks)UK	US29 × 3 Triple platinum (25 weeks)US	First published: September 26, 2017 Sales: + 3,585,000
2018	All the Stars Black Panther: The Album	DE27 (14 weeks) DE	AT25 (13 weeks) AT	CH18 (15 weeks) CH	UK5 platinum (22 weeks)UK	US7th × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)US	First published: Jan 4th, 2018 Sales: + 3,195,000; with Kendrick Lamar
	Broken Clocks Ctrl	-	-	-	-	US82 × 2 Double platinum (4 weeks)US	First published: Jan 9, 2018 Sales: +2,000,000
2019	Power Is Power For the Throne (OST)	-	-	CH67 (2 weeks) CH	UK45 (5 weeks) UK	US90 (2 weeks) US	First published: April 19, 2019 with The Weeknd & Travis Scott
2020	The other side	DE88 (1 week) DE	-	CH47 (1 week) CH	UK44 (... weeks) UK	US61 (7 weeks) US	First published: February 26, 2020 with Justin Timberlake

More singles

• 2014: Babylon (feat.Kendrick Lamar)
• 2014: Child's Play (feat. Chance the Rapper )
• 2017: Drew Barrymore (US:gold)
• 2017: Doves in the Wind (feat.Kendrick Lamar) (US:gold)
• 2017: Go Gina (US:gold)
• 2017: Prom (US:gold)
• 2017: 20 Something (US:gold)
• 2017: Normal Girl (US:gold)
• 2017: Supermodel (US:platinum)
• 2017: Weekend (Funk Wav Remix) (with Calvin Harris ) (US:gold)
• 2018: Garden (Say It Like Dat) (US:platinum)

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	What Lovers Do Red Pill Blues	DE17th gold (26 weeks)DE	AT11 (25 weeks) AT	CH9 (29 weeks) CH	UK12 gold (19 weeks)UK	US9 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: August 30, 2017 Sales: + 4,010,000; Maroon 5 feat. SZA
	Homemade Dynamite (Remix)	-	-	-	UK82 (5 weeks) UK	US92 (1 week) US	First published: September 15, 2017 Sales: + 250,000; Lorde feat. Khalid , SZA & Post Malone
2019	Just Us Father of Asahd	-	-	CH81 (4 weeks) CH	UK66 (4 weeks) UK	US43 gold (13 weeks)US	First published: May 21, 2019 Sales: + 500,000; DJ Khaled feat. SZA
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2016	Consideration Anti	-	-	-	UK88 silver (1 week)UK	-	Chart entry: March 10, 2016 Sales: + 200,000; Rihanna feat. SZA
2018	I Do Invasion of Privacy	-	-	-	-	US23 platinum (5 weeks)US	Chart entry: April 21, 2018 Sales: + 1,000,000; Cardi B feat. SZA
2019	Staring at the Sun Hollywood’s Bleeding	-	-	-	-	US34 (2 weeks) US	Chart entry: September 21, 2019 Sales: + 40,000; Post Malone feat. SZA

Further guest contributions

• 2016: Happy Birthday (Childish Major feat.Isaiah Rashad & SZA)
• 2016: Lies (Felix Snow feat.SZA)
• 2016: Bed (Reenacted) (APSPDR + feat.SZA, Nemo Achida & Moruf)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 2018: for the single All the Stars  Denmark 2020: for the single The Weekend  Canada 2017: for the single Love Galore 2019: for the single Staring At The Sun  New Zealand 2017: for the single Homemade Dynamite (Remix)  Portugal 2018: for the single All the Stars Platinum record  Belgium 2018: for the single What Lovers Do  Brazil 2018: for the single All the Stars  Denmark 2018: for the single What Lovers Do 2020: for the single All the Stars  France 2018: for the single What Lovers Do  Italy 2018: for the single All the Stars  Canada 2018: for the single Homemade Dynamite (Remix)  New Zealand 2018: for the single All the Stars  Portugal 2018: for the single What Lovers Do  Sweden 2018: for the single All the Stars  Spain 2018: for the single What Lovers Do

2 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single Homemade Dynamite (Remix) 2019: for the single The Weekend  Canada 2018: for the single All the Stars  New Zealand 2017: for the single What Lovers Do 3 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single All the Stars  Italy 2019: for the single What Lovers Do  Sweden 2018: for the single What Lovers Do 4 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single What Lovers Do  Canada 2018: for the single What Lovers Do Diamond record  Brazil 2018: for the single What Lovers Do

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	11 × platinum11	-	770,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	45,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	-	platinum1	diamond1	200,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	225,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	-	platinum1	-	150,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	-	200,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	7 × platinum7th	-	640,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	-	105,000	nztop40.co.nz
Portugal (AFP)	-	gold1	platinum1	-	15,000	see individual evidence
Sweden (IFPI)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	-	160,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Spain (Promusicae)	-	-	platinum1	-	40,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	8 × gold8th	18 × platinum18th	-	22,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	3 × silver3	2 × gold2	platinum1	-	1,660,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	15 × gold15th	56 × platinum56	diamond1

swell

1. ↑ Who Is SZA? In: complex.com. September 8, 2013, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ SZA Talks Quitting Her Day Job Working With Holy Other & Emile Haynie. In: billboard.com. May 23, 2013, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
3. ↑ CTRL by SZA. In: metacritic.com. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: Germany Austria Switzerland UK US
5. ^ SZA Announces Tour. In: pitchfork.com. July 5, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
6. ↑ SZA Releases Moving Statement on Grammy Nominations. In: pitchfork.com. November 29, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Gold for All the Stars in Portugal
8. ↑ Platinum for What Lovers Do in Portugal ( Memento from March 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official website