The 'Drivers License' hitmaker becomes the youngest solo artist to score a No. 1 album and single in the same week and she garners the biggest sales week of 2021 so far.
- May 30, 2021
AceShowbiz - Olivia Rodrigo has become the youngest solo artist ever to land a U.K. number one album and single in the same week.
The 18 year old's debut, "Sour", has rocketed to the top of the charts thanks to the success of hits "Drivers License" and "Good 4 U", which also landed at number one on Friday (28May21).
With 51,000 opening-week sales, Olivia also scores the biggest sales week of 2021 so far and "Sour" is the biggest first week for a debut album since Lewis Capaldi released "Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent" in May 2019.
The album also overtakes Capaldi's release on streaming charts, racking up 45.7 million track streams over the past seven days.
Olivia Rodrigo pushed aside last week's champion Paul Weller who previously debuted at No. 1 with "Fat Pop (Volume 1)". With just over 26,000 units, of which 91 per cent were in physical sales, he scored his sixth number one on the U.K. albums chart.
In the U.S. Billboard, Olivia Rodrigo also made history. She ruled Hot 100 with "Good 4 U", just over two months after she dominated the chart for eight weeks with her debut release "Drivers License".
According to Billboard, the feat makes Rodrigo the first artist with a debut album to boast two number one Hot 100 entries since Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 2012 project "The Heist".
She credited Covid-19 lockdown with speeding up her album. "Had I been going to press junkets, and performing on late night (TV), I wouldn't have had the confidence in writing the record that I did," she claimed.
