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Sophie (album)
Sophie is the second and final studio album by the British producer SOPHIE (Sophie Xeon), released posthumously on September 27, 2024 via Transgressive and Future Classic.
SOS (SZA album)
SOS is SZA's second studio album, released December 9, 2022 on TDE/RCA; 23 tracks, Metacritic 90, first Billboard 200 number one for SZA, Grammy Best Progressive R&B Album, expanded as SOS Deluxe: LANA in 2024.
Sound & Fury (Sturgill Simpson album)
Sound & Fury is Sturgill Simpson's fourth studio album, a synth-heavy Southern rock record released September 27, 2019 on Elektra/Atlantic with a companion Netflix anime film directed by Jumpei Mizusaki.
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, also shortened to Seventh Trumpet, is Avenged Sevenfold's 2001 metalcore debut album on Good Life Recordings: 13 tracks, 52 minutes, raw production, with 'Warmness on the Soul' as its piano ballad.
Sounds Good Feels Good
Sounds Good Feels Good is the second studio album by Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer (2015, Capitol), produced by John Feldmann; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, UK, and ARIA charts, scoring 67 on Metacritic.
Sounds of Silence
Sounds of Silence is Simon & Garfunkel's second studio album, released by Columbia January 17, 1966. Built around the Tom Wilson-overdubbed electric folk-rock hit single "The Sounds of Silence", a #1 in January 1966.
Sour (album)
Sour is Olivia Rodrigo's debut album, released May 21, 2021 on Geffen Records. Written by Rodrigo and produced by Dan Nigro, it topped charts in 17 countries and won three Grammys.
South of Heaven
South of Heaven is Slayer's fourth studio album, released July 5, 1988 on Def Jam and produced by Rick Rubin. It slowed the tempos of Reign in Blood, peaked at #57 on the Billboard 200, and was RIAA-certified gold in 1992.
Southern Accents
Southern Accents: sixth 1985 studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a troubled loose concept album about the modern South on MCA, produced by Petty, Jimmy Iovine, Mike Campbell, Dave Stewart, and Robbie Robertson, best known for "Don't Come Around Here No More" and its title track.
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is OutKast's debut album, released April 26, 1994 on LaFace Records. Produced entirely by Organized Noize, it reached number 20 on the Billboard 200, went platinum within a year, and helped Southern rap gain mainstream acceptance.
Souvlaki (album)
Souvlaki is Slowdive's second album, released 1 June 1993 on Creation Records. Recorded across three studios after roughly 40 scrapped songs, with Brian Eno guesting, it became a shoegaze classic despite poor initial reviews.
Speak & Spell (album)
Speak & Spell is the 1981 debut studio album by Depeche Mode, released on Mute Records; the only one written mostly by Vince Clarke, featuring Just Can't Get Enough, recorded at Blackwing Studios, and followed by Clarke's departure.
Speak English or Die
Speak English or Die is the 1985 Megaforce debut album by crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), the Anthrax side project of Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Dan Lilker, and Billy Milano: 21 songs in under 29 minutes, recorded in three days.
Speak Now
Speak Now is Taylor Swift's third studio album, released October 25, 2010 on Big Machine; all 14 songs written solo, over one million first-week US sales, No. 1 on the Billboard 200, re-recorded as Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in 2023.
Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is Taylor Swift's July 7, 2023 re-recording of her 2010 album Speak Now, the third of six Taylor's Versions, with six vault tracks, Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams duets, and a revised Better Than Revenge lyric.
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is OutKast's 2003 double album pairing Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and André 3000's The Love Below; it sold 11.4 million copies, topped the Billboard 200 for seven weeks, and became the second hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner.
Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)
Speaking in Tongues (1983, Sire) is Talking Heads' fifth studio album and first self-produced record, a funk-driven commercial breakthrough yielding "Burning Down the House," the band's only Top 10 single, and closing with "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, Kid Cudi's fifth studio album (December 4, 2015, Republic/Wicked Awesome), a 26-track double album of lo-fi grunge and alternative rock with Beavis and Butt-Head skits, debuting at number 36 on the Billboard 200.
Spiceworld (album)
Spiceworld, the Spice Girls' second studio album (Virgin, 3 November 1997), recorded largely during the Spice World film shoot; three weeks at UK No. 1, No. 1 in eleven other territories, and over 14 million copies sold worldwide.
Spiderland
Spiderland is the 1991 second and final album by Louisville band Slint, produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders, released on Touch and Go, and later credited as a foundation of post-rock.
Spirit (Depeche Mode album)
Spirit (2017) is the fourteenth studio album by Depeche Mode, produced by James Ford and released 17 March 2017 on Columbia/Mute. Its most politically direct album since the 1980s; last with Andy Fletcher; number 1 in Germany, number 5 in UK and US.
Spirit of Eden
Spirit of Eden (1988) is Talk Talk's fourth album, written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, recorded improvisationally in darkness at Wessex Studios and edited digitally; a commercial failure that became a foundational post-rock record.
Splat! (album)
Splat! is Deep Purple's 24th studio album, released July 3, 2026 on earMUSIC, produced by Bob Ezrin, second album with guitarist Simon McBride, a 13-track concept album by Ian Gillan on humanity's end as transformation.
Sprained Ankle (album)
Sprained Ankle is Julien Baker's debut solo album, released October 23, 2015 on 6131 Records after a 2014 independent digital release. Nine sparse guitar and piano songs about depression, substance abuse, and faith, recorded at Spacebomb Studios.
Squeeze (Squeeze album)
Squeeze (also released as U.K. Squeeze) is the 1978 debut album by English new wave band Squeeze on A&M Records, produced by John Cale, who made the band rewrite most songs; singles were Take Me I'm Yours (UK 19) and Bang Bang (UK 49).
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) is Happy Mondays' 1987 debut album on Factory Records (FACT 170), produced by John Cale; early pressings carried "Desmond", later replaced by "24 Hour Party People".
SremmLife
SremmLife is the 2015 debut album by Mississippi hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, released January 6 on Eardruma/Interscope, produced mainly by Mike WiLL Made-It, debuting at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 units and later certified Platinum.
St. Anger
St. Anger is Metallica's eighth studio album, released June 5, 2003 on Vertigo. Recorded amid Jason Newsted's exit and James Hetfield's rehab, with Bob Rock on bass, no guitar solos, a Grammy-winning title track, and famously divisive raw production.
Stage Girl (album)
Stage Girl is the 2025 debut album by American trans pop singer Eli, released via Zelig Music/RCA on October 31, 2025. A ten-track, roughly 30-minute pop/R&B concept record built around a fictional American Idol-style talent show, it was expanded in May 2026 as Stage Girl (Not a Dream Anymore).
Stained Class
Stained Class: Judas Priest's fourth studio album, released 10 February 1978 on CBS/Columbia, first with drummer Les Binks and the band's iconic logo; produced by Dennis MacKay, home of 'Exciter', a cited speed/thrash prototype.