SZA has announced that she will tour in support of her latest album, SOS, and Omar Apollo will join her.
On Tuesday, December 13, the Top Dawg Entertainment diva unveiled the dates for her 2023 SOS Tour, which is fittingly named and will be her first stadium tour.
The tour’s 17 dates begin on February 21 in Columbus, Ohio. Before wrapping up in Los Angeles on March 22, SZA will go to further cities like Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Atlanta, and Dallas.
On Friday, December 16, at 12 p.m. local time, tickets go on sale at szasos.com.
Only a few days had passed after the long-awaited release of SZA’s sophomore album SOS on December 9 before the tour announcement was made. The 23-track album featured collaborations with artists including Travis Scott, Don Toliver, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, as well as the hits “Good Days,” “I Hate U,” and “Shirt.”
The five-year wait for SOS seems to be paying off, as the album debuted in the top 10 on the American Apple Music chart right away. With 13 top 10 singles, SZA matched Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy’s record as the female album with the most top 10 hits in American Apple Music history.
According to Chart Data, SOS on Spotify smashed the record for the most R&B album streams in a single day in the platform’s history with 68 million.
With between 275,000 and 300,000 album-equivalent units expected to be sold in its first week, the project is expected to make its No. 1 Billboard 200 debut, giving SZA her first No. 1 album and her biggest sales total to date.
The New Jersey native recently discussed SOS with Glamour, stating that she was completely unapologetic throughout the record.
“It’s about heartbreak, it’s about revenge, it’s about being pissed,” she said. “I’ve never raged the way that I should have. This is my villain era, and I’m very comfortable with that. It is in the way I say no, it’s in the way I’m deciding what I’m taking, and what I’m not taking. It’s in the fucked up things that I don’t apologize for.
”She continued: “I am a bitch — it’s not all the time, but when I am, that’s okay. I don’t have to spend my whole life trying to be a nice girl. It’s just not who I am. But I am a good person.”
SZA’s 2017 debut, Ctrl, which included Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Isaiah Rashad, and James Fauntleroy, was nominated for a Grammy. SOS is the follow-up to that song.
