Olivia Rodrigo holds the highest average streams per track for a sophomore album on Global Spotify
#1
. “GUTS” — 5.25M (12 songs)
#2
. “SOS” — 3.04M (23 songs)
#3
. “Happier Than Ever” — 2.33M (16 songs)
GUTS is expected to:
- surpass sour’s first week sales
- surpass sour’s spotify debut
- have at least one
#1
hit
but because everyone on here is so threatened by olivia rodrigo, it’s still a ‘sophomore slump’ ?
this midnights vs. guts discourse is not that deep. if you prefer music that tops the charts and is catered to the radio, that’s completely fine. if you prefer music that’s genuinely good and an improvement in artistry, that’s completely fine as well.
“Olivia Rodrigo's Guts is critics' favourite album of 2023”
Guts was the most popular choice on 25 "end-of-year" lists surveyed by the BBC - including NME, Rolling Stone, the Times, Australia's Double J and France's Les Inrockuptibles magazine.
back to black: 35 minutes
pure heroine: 37 minutes
future nostalgia: 37 minutes
IGOR: 39 minutes
thank u next: 41 minutes
melodrama: 41 minutes
harry’s house: 42 minutes
are these all glorified EP’s?
‘bad idea right?’ by Olivia Rodrigo debuts at
#3
on Global Spotify with 5.27 million streams.
It also debuts at
#1
on US Spotify with 2.2 million streams.
vampire spotify streams
day 1 - 9.8M
day 2 - 8M (-20%)
a smaller second day drop than any taylor swift song has ever experienced, is that a better indication for you?
GUTS back in the top 10 of apple music, on par with alternative critics darlings in terms of acclaim, vampire shaping up to be her second biggest hit, and obsessed coming soon. it’s all about longevity and just some good promo, livies.
the fact that vampire is about to be her THIRD
#1
debut is enough to tell you swifties will say anything to not feel threatened by an artist younger than most of them.
Latest Female Sophomore Albums to debut with 300K+ units in the US
GUTS — 302k (2023)
SOS — 318k (2022)
21 — 352k (2011)
Born This Way — 1.1M (2011)
Fearless — 592k (2008)
‘GUTS’ and ‘SOS’ are the only albums to do so in the last 10+ years.
weeks spent in the top 10 on billboard 100:
anti hero: 27 weeks (so far)
shake it off: 24 weeks
good 4 u: 24 weeks
======BARRIER======
thank u, next: 17 weeks
7 rings: 16 weeks
positions: 17 weeks
NY Times describes ‘bad idea right?’ as a combination of the chatty call-and-response hooks of ’60s girl groups, the gum-smacking sass of Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” and the chugging guitars and elastic bass lines of early aughts pop-punk - a departure from the rock-operatic ‘vampire’
@gyztsloveraotd
@pixelyzd
they didn’t tweet that when
- nicki released a new song
- doja released a new song
- dua released a new song
- the weeknd released a new song
in the late ‘90s to early 2000s, there was avril lavigne, alanis morissette, hole, maroon 5, gwen stefani, kelly clarkson, my chemical romance, evanescence, linkin park.
in the 2020’s, there is only olivia rodrigo to carry mainstream rock.
Day 189 on Global Spotify:
vampire — 2,653,615
Anti-Hero — 2,636,831
drivers license — 2,489,915
good 4 u — 2,206,067
Easy On Me — 2,101,951
Happier Than Ever — 1,501,192
the fact that apple specifically called her up to promote their new iphone with a music video RIGHT after it was announced. they know she’s the face of gen z. if olivia got it, everyone wants it.
Olivia Rodrigo has now placed at least two songs simultaneously in the Hot 100’s Top 10 SIXTEEN (16) times, equivalent to ONE MONTH.
For reference, Billie Eilish has achieved this 0 times.
10 days on global spotify
Therefore i am - 4.523M
Everything i wanted - 4.055M
Your power - 3.521M
Lost cause - 2.439M - (4th single, no radio, queerbaiting allegations, hate train)
Bad idea right? - 2.494M (only 54k difference) 💀
Olivia Rodrigo becomes the first lead artist and first woman to earn multiple
#1
hits on Spotify’s US Weekly Songs chart this year.
•vampire
•bad idea right?
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Industry executives are increasingly more depressed about being unable to break new artists:
"Nobody knows how to break music right now. I think they're all lost."
Olivia Rodrigo and Ice Spice are named two major recent breakthrough unicorns.
🔗:
The race for
#1
on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 has tightened, as
@MorganWallen
’s “Last Night” has closed the gap on
@oliviarodrigo
’s “Vampire”, with both songs currently projected to be separated by less than five points.
“sabrina carpenter opening for the eras tour means she won!” so what does olivia rodrigo having overwhelming demand for her own worldwide arena tour mean?
GUTS (3) surpasses SOUR (2) as Olivia Rodrigo’s album with the most
#1
’s on US Spotify.
GUTS: ‘vampire’, ‘bad idea right?’, ‘all-american b*tch’
SOUR: ‘drivers license’, ‘good 4 u’
GUTS gained over 36M spotify streams on its third day (sunday update), maintaining its lead over HTE’s first day on global spotify (35.6M).
this is what happens when people get beave over a barbie song.
autoplay cheques. radio cheques. a free mcdonald’s meal for each purchase on itunes. free cars instead of free car washes. it’s time to get to work
@GeffenRecords
.
@oliviarodrigo
’s “Bad Idea Right?” is set to serve as the 2nd official radio single from “Guts”.
An official servicing & impact date at US Pop, Hot AC & Alternative Radio is expected imminently.
Olivia Rodrigo denies rumors about having a feud with Taylor Swift in a new Interview with Rolling Stone:
"I don't have beef with anyone. I'm very chill. I keep to myself. There's so many Twitter conspiracy theories. I only look at alien-conspiracy theories.”
Olivia Rodrigo will become the first artist born this century to perform 4 nights at ‘The World’s most famous arena’ MSG Square Garden.
— The venue reported an “Overwhelming demand”.
“The glue holding this genre (pop rock) Frankenstein together is Rodrigo, whose cheekily feigned innocence provides one of the best pop performances of the year.”
this is how big of a hit Last Night is in the United States. This is its week 25 comparison to “Stay” and “As It Was”, both of those songs are among Billboard’s 5 biggest Hot 100 hits of all time.
Last Night is doubling both songs up in streaming and sales.