After much anticipation from her fanbase, Lana has finally arrived.
SZA released SOS Deluxe: LANA, a new, extended version of her sophomore album, on Friday, Dec. 20, following various delays. The 38-track project includes 14 brand-new songs, in addition to the previously-released “Saturn” and all 23 songs from the original SOS.
Originally set to drop at midnight on Dec. 20, the “Good Days” singer, 35, said one say beforehand that the “full deluxe drops first thing tomorrow AM.”
“(Had to get my mixes right lol ! All songs are delivered and Ingesting into the system as we speak🙂↕️ pls be kind .. we been up for days ),” she wrote on Instagram alongside a moody visualizer to her deluxe song “Drive.”
When the morning arrived, fans wondered why it hadn’t dropped and shared their thoughts on social media.
Then, at 10:27 a.m. PT, Terrence “Punch” Henderson of SZA’s Top Dawg Entertainment label revealed the deluxe album would drop at “12 pm” PT in a post shared to X. “It’s my fault,” he wrote.
Fans flooded the social media site with memes as they waited for the album’s arrival. One fan shared their feelings with a video of Adele looking unamused at a basketball game. “Me acting like Idc about Lana so it comes faster,” the X user wrote.
Another user shared a compilation of Sarah Hyland‘s character posing for mugshots in Modern Family and captioned the post: “me if opening Spotify every hour on the hour to check in SZA dropped Lana was a crime.”
Another user shared a gif of a woman looking confused and made a reference to the artist’s 2017 hit “Broken Clocks,” writing, “so SZA is those clocks broken ?? #LANA.”
SZA — who’s going on tour with Kendrick Lamar in 2025 — first teased LANA in December 2023.
One year later on Dec. 16, she officially confirmed LANA would be out Dec. 20. She made the announcement alongside a clip of Ben Stiller in the video for her then-unreleased track “Drive,” which appears on the project.
In December 2023, SZA celebrated the one-year anniversary of SOS by reflecting on the milestones she’s reached since its release.
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“a day late but Happy 1 year anniversary to an album that is ACTIVELY CHANGING MY LIFE .. like rn currently changing my life,” she began. “I haven’t processed this year AT ALL cause it’s still happening. this is beyond my wildest dreams . I never imagined we’d accomplish a fraction of the accolades that came from this.”
“It often doesn’t feel real and it’s funny cause I swore I’d know what to do if it ever happened 😂 turns out I I froze .. I know the perils of drinking the koolaid so I won’t dabble,” SZA continued, adding that she had to “express the immense GRATITUDE I have for every person that made this possible . Every person that’s been apart of this journey,”
SOS spent ten weeks atop the Billboard 200, and the single “Kill Bill” became her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album earned her three Grammy Awards in February.
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