SOS
by SZA
SZA bestography
SOS is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by SZA on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by SZA is Ctrl which is ranked number 914 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,909.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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SOS track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/05/2026 13:08 | TonySayers61 | 25,007 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/29/2026 06:10 | Exist-en-ciel | 14,680 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/20/2026 20:49 | sweetness | 1,127 | 79/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2026 11:55 | fabm0 | 7,010 | 58/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 16:57 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.9/100, a mean average of 71.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2024 Grammys. the winner was Midnights by Taylor Swift
corenfro 09/01/2023 16:39 | #298931
This is another album to just not look at the BEA ratings on because this is not the type of record the people on this site will understand.
“SOS” is a big mess. The center of the album is filled with forgettable tracks. The themes of rejection and longing are muddled between the songs. It doesn’t help that a lot of the instrumentals stay in an unambitious blend of trap percussion and acoustic loops. It’s a chore to find the differences or grasp any signs of individual uniqueness. During this run, SZA also delivers some pretty weak melodies. The chorus on “Nobody gets me” sounds beleaguered and not in the intended way. Despite these shortcomings, there are some real highs. SZA’s voice remains full and lends a lot of pathos when in the right places. “Kill Bill” is a great song that uses dark humor to effectively communicate the desperation she is going through. “Good Days” has an absolutely sublime instrumental with an entrancing pentatonic scale. Its theme of embracing the present and moving forward has tremendous weight after listening through all the pining and regret of the record. While hearing Ol Dirty on “Forgiveless” was a treat, “Good Days” should have been the closer. “SOS” needed less for its strengths to truly shine.
Come on, what on earth is the point of clogging up these comment sections with a copy paste of the album's tracklist? With or without your personal rating of each song, it just goes against the design of the website.
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Ahhh how I’ve longed for the follow up after first hearing ‘Ctrl’ all those years ago and, for the most part, I believe ‘SOS’ to be a worthy successor, if perhaps not being quite as tight or slick an overall package
VictorVale 12/25/2022 17:13 | #292209
Grande nome contemporâneo.
HoldenM 12/10/2022 01:51 | #291867
NEVER IN DOUBT, BABYYYY!!!
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