SZA celebrates her first No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B Songs chart, as "The Weekend" rises 3-1.
(The new chart, as well as all other Billboard rankings this week, is dated Wednesday, Jan. 3, instead of on a usual Saturday, as Billboard is adjusting chart and magazine issue dates.)
SZA's coronation marks the first by a woman in a lead role following a shutout in 2017. It's the first such No. 1 since Rihanna's "Needed Me" took command for three frames in October 2016.