SZA Drops ‘Lana (SOS Deluxe)’ Album: Stream It Now

SZA lastly dropped Lana, the long-awaited deluxe version of her blockbuster album SOS, on Friday (Dec. 20) by way of High Dawg Leisure and RCA Information.

Earlier this week, she formally introduced Lana with an Instagram teaser video starring Ben Stiller and that includes the observe “Drive.”

She first revealed the Lana title throughout a live performance at New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard in September 2023, saying the deluxe model of SOS “is sort of a complete ‘nother album, and it’s referred to as Lana. It’s seven to 10 songs, and it’ll be out this fall.” In a November British Vogue interview, she described Lana and the SOS deluxe as two fully completely different albums. “I believe I’m making music from a extra stunning place. From a extra attainable place versus a extra angsty place,” she informed the publication. “I’m not figuring out with my brokenness. It’s not my identification. It’s s–t that occurred to me. Yeah, I skilled cruelty. I’ve to place it down in some unspecified time in the future. Piece by piece, my music is shifting due to that, the lighter I get.”

However earlier this month, she confirmed Lana is the title of the SOS deluxe album and teased the tracklist.

The deluxe set comes greater than two years after SZA dropped SOS. The 23-song LP included 5 Billboard Scorching 100 high 10 hit singles: the No. 1 “Kill Invoice,” plus “Snooze,” “I Hate U,” “Good Days” and “No person Will get You.” It spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — essentially the most of any R&B/hip-hop album by a girl since Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut spent 11 weeks on the high in 1991. As an alternative of its impression being restricted to the ultimate weeks of 2022, SOS grew to become considered one of this and final 12 months’s greatest releases. SOS was nominated for album of the 12 months and finest progressive R&B album on the 2024 Grammy Awards, when SZA was the most-nominated artist with 9 whole nods.

Take heed to Lana under.