Within the wake of her profession as a toddler actor on the Disney Channel, Olivia Rodrigo proved an prompt success as a pop star.
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Olivia Rodrigo‘s new third album, you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love, follows within the footsteps of its chart-topping predecessors, debuting at No. 1. However its gross sales and streaming numbers blow away the first-week performances of Bitter and GUTS — and all 13 of the brand new album’s songs land within the prime 30 of this week’s singles chart.
TOP STORY
Within the wake of her profession as a toddler actor on the Disney Channel, Olivia Rodrigo proved an prompt success as a pop star. Her first album, 2021’s Bitter, debuted at No. 1, as did her first-ever single, “Driver’s License.” A follow-up album, GUTS, additionally debuted atop the chart greater than two years later. And the primary single from GUTS, “Vampire,” did the identical.
Bitter and GUTS have by no means left the charts — they have been bouncing across the prime half of the Billboard 200 ever since their launch, and each take huge jumps this week. However the first-week numbers for her third album, you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love, are nonetheless large by comparability — greater than 60% larger than GUTS and Bitter carried out, again once they have been of their first week on the charts.
The brand new album has already pulled down a whopping 485,000 “equal album items” — that is a mixture of gross sales and streaming — together with 273,000 bodily copies offered. The streaming numbers have been sufficient to land all 13 of its tracks within the prime 30 of this week’s Billboard Sizzling 100, led by “silly tune,” which debuts at No. 3. Additionally within the prime 10: “drop lifeless” and “the treatment,” which have been singles launched within the run-up to the album’s launch, in addition to the album observe “honeybee.”
One key to Rodrigo’s success lies in her means to bridge gaps between generations, which makes it simpler for younger followers to persuade their dad and mom to spring for live performance tickets. For instance, you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love options a number of references to the commemorated band The Remedy — and even options the group’s singer, Robert Smith, within the tune “What’s Improper With Me.”
“What’s Improper With Me” is, in fact, among the many new Rodrigo songs to storm this week’s charts. At No. 17, it is the primary solo hit in Smith’s 50-year profession — to not point out one in every of 43 profession hits for Rodrigo, who’s nonetheless solely 23. All these years and all these bangers after “driver’s license,” and she or he’s nonetheless not sufficiently old to lease a automobile.
TOP ALBUMS
Olivia Rodrigo should be scaling the peaks of pop stardom, nevertheless it’s exceedingly powerful to construct and maintain success on the Billboard charts nowadays. Week in and week out, the Billboard 200 is crowded with catalog titles, greatest-hits packages, the most recent blockbusters and quite a few previous albums by stars like Taylor Swift, Drake and Morgan Wallen. There simply is not room for everybody — even established hitmakers making an attempt to keep up their previous success.
Contemplate the case of Lizzo. The singer’s 2022 album Particular peaked at No. 2 and spawned a megahit in “About Rattling Time,” which went on to win report of the 12 months on the Grammys. However after false begins, controversies and a picture makeover, Lizzo’s follow-up — Bitch, which dropped on June 5 — has didn’t a lot as crack the Billboard 200.
Nonetheless, the charts typically discover room for unlikely phenomena. Simply this week, the weird, closely costumed, largely instrumental, mysterious and nameless Quebec math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine pulls off a feat just about nobody may have predicted: It debuts two albums on this week’s Billboard 200, despite a sound that could not be much less business. Vol. II, which got here out in April, debuts at No. 44, whereas 2024’s Vol. 1 follows shut behind at No. 53.
The band’s sudden chart success could be chalked as much as easy virality, with an help from public radio: The world-class tastemakers at KEXP in Seattle printed a session with the band that is racked up 16 million views in 4 months — and helped drive followers to Angine de Poitrine’s albums.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, the singer-songwriter Oliver Tree returns to the chart for the saddest potential motive: He was one in every of six folks killed in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro on June 14. Information of Tree’s loss of life boosted streams of the singer’s 2020 debut album, Ugly Is Lovely, and this week the report re-enters the chart at No. 46.
TOP SONGS
Olivia Rodrigo makes the most important strikes on this week’s charts (see above), however even the discharge of you appear fairly unhappy for a woman so in love could not weaken the grip of the week’s prime two songs.
Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” holds at No. 1 for a second week, buoyed by big gross sales numbers, robust radio airplay, phrase of mouth from its presence within the blockbuster sequel Toy Story 5, and Swift’s personal formidable promotional machine.
Prying it free from the Sizzling 100’s prime spot will not be simple, nevertheless it’ll absolutely face challenges within the weeks to come back, significantly from Ella Langley‘s blockbuster “Choosin’ Texas.” That tune, which has spent 10 weeks at No. 1 thus far, has been 2026’s most sturdy hit — and never even 13 Olivia Rodrigo songs may shake it free from its perch at No. 2.
Decrease on the Sizzling 100, this 12 months’s World Cup makes its presence felt for the primary time, as Shakira X Burna Boy‘s “Dai Dai (FIFA World Cup Official Tune 2026)” debuts at No. 75. With World Cup matches and various festivities scheduled for the subsequent few weeks, the tune — like different FIFA-adjacent singles by everybody from Jelly Roll to Future — nonetheless has room to develop because the summer season rolls on.
