Miley Cyrus and SZA.Photo: getty (2)
Miley Cyrusis givingSZAher “Flowers” in light of a new milestone.
Earlier this week, SZA earned the first No. 1 hit of her career on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her catchy single “Kill Bill.” Shortly after the announcement, Cyrus congratulated the Grammy winner on the news.
“Congrats to Sza for going #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100,” Cyrus, 30, wrote on Twitter. “Love you!”
Cyrus' smash “Flowers” spent eight non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 earlier this year.
The single from her latest album,Endless Summer Vacation, was released on Jan. 12 along with an accompanying music video. Fans immediately began to speculate that thenew song features several referencesto herhigh-profile relationshipwith ex-husbandLiam Hemsworth.
Meanwhile, SZA, 33, releasedSOS, her second studio album, on Dec. 9. Days later, she appeared on theRolling StoneMusic Nowpodcast andopened up about how she feltwatching her newly released record top the musical charts — and make her Spotify’s No. 1 artist globally.
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“I never thought in a million years that people would like it,” SZA (whose real name is Solána Imani Rowe) told the outlet. “My dad’s visiting right now, with my mom. Everybody came down to make sure I didn’t lose my mind if the album went bad once it came out. And now we’re just hanging out, ‘cause it didn’t go badly!”
Later in the interview, the “I Hate U” singer revealed that she felt doubt ahead of its release — but was determined to get it over with.
SZA opened up to PEOPLE about the LP shortly before its release, in a conversation surrounding herlatest Crocs collection.
“The sound is a little bit ofliterallyeverything,” she told PEOPLE at the time. “It’s a little angry as an overview, but some of it is really beautiful and soft and heartfelt. It’s about heartbreak, it’s about being lost, it’s about being pissed.”
source: people.com
