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Welcome to Keeping It Z, ESSENCE’s column where we touch on and analyze all things Generation Z. In this piece, writer Malik Peay talks about SZA’s debut album, ‘Ctrl’ and what it means to ...
Before Ctrl took the crown, Taylor Swift’s 1989 held the record for the longest-charting female album, a massive achievement in its own right. But SZA’s Ctrl has now edged out 1989 with 378 ...
And to think she didn't even believe in this project... In a recent cover story with The Fader, the songstress spoke candidly about her insecurities regarding her first studio album. “I didn’t ...
SZA is marking the fifth anniversary of Ctrl by dropping a deluxe edition of her impressive 2017 debut studio album.The set includes seven new songs. As she indicated in a tweet about the record ...
SZA’s ‘CTRL’ Album Finally Gets A Release Date. by: Emilee Lindner May 25, 2017. Getty Image. We now have a date on the calendar for SZA’s oft-delayed CTRL.
On June 9, SZA released the deluxe version of her 2017 debut album, Ctrl, featuring seven unreleased tracks. Listen to the album here.
SZA goes 6x platinum with “Ctrl” SZA has taken the music world by storm. Over the past seven years, she has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the biggest artists in the industry.
While we wait for SZA’s highly-anticipated follow-up to her massively successful debut album, the singer is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Ctrl with a deluxe edition. Earlier today, she ...
On June 9, SZA dropped a deluxe version of her 2017 album 'CTRL' with seven additional tracks, including previously unreleased music.
Her Ctrl has been named the best album of 2017 by Time magazine. Time stated about the New Jersey-bred singer-songwriter, “She may be one of a kind, but she’s speaking the truth of a whole ...
SZA posted to Instagram. Thankgod4cody produced “Love Galore,” “The Weekend,” and “Broken Clocks” on SZA’s latest album, Ctrl . View this post on Instagram ...
With the release of Ctrl, SZA’s music became a global phenomenon, selling over 1,000,000 units.The reach of the album tied Whitney Houston’s own debut album, and soon after became the longest ...