{"id":2286,"date":"2021-05-30T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T16:44:35","slug":"olivia-rodrigos-sour-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-albums-chart-with-2021s-biggest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018Sour\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 2021\u2019s Biggest Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Twenty One Pilots and 42 Dugg debut in top 10.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-rodrigo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a>&nbsp;captures the biggest week of 2021 for an album, as her debut release,&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>, opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 27, according to MRC Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;also launches with the second-largest streaming week ever for a non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop album, and second-biggest for an album of any genre by a female artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sour<\/em>\u00a0is the singer-songwriter and actress\u2019 debut album, and was preceded by a trio of top 10 hit singles on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0earlier in 2021, including two No. 1s: \u201cDrivers License\u201d and \u201cGood 4 U.\u201d Before \u201cDrivers License\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9512983\/olivia-rodrigo-drivers-license-number-one-hot-100-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at No. 1<\/a>\u00a0on the Hot 100 in January, Rodrigo broke through with roles on Disney Channel\u2019s\u00a0<em>Bizaardvark<\/em>\u00a0in 2016 and Disney+&#8217;s\u00a0<em>High School Musical: The Musical: The Series<\/em>\u00a0in 2019 \u2013 along with contributions to those shows\u2019 soundtrack albums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on&nbsp;multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 5, 2021-dated chart (where&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&#8216;s website on Wednesday, June 2 (one day later than usual due to the May 31 Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>Sour<\/em>\u2019s 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending May 27, SEA units comprise 218,000 units (equaling 300.73 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 11 tracks), album sales comprise 72,000 (making it the top-selling album of the week) and TEA units comprise 4,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;was released on May 21 via Geffen Records\/Interscope Geffen A&amp;M (IGA). It\u2019s the second No. 1 for Geffen this year, following&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rod-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Wave<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>SoulFly<\/em>&nbsp;(Alamo\/Geffen\/IGA, April 10-dated chart).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biggest Week of 2021 for an Album:&nbsp;<\/strong>With 295,000 units,&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;surpasses 2021\u2019s previous biggest-week, tallied by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>&nbsp;when it bowed 291,000 units (April 24-dated chart). (Swift herself has a writing credit on&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>, as the track \u201c1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back\u201d samples the Swift-penned \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day,\u201d from Swift\u2019s 2017&nbsp;<em>Reputation<\/em>&nbsp;album.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dominant Debut:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Sour<\/em>&nbsp;captures the largest week, by units, for an act\u2019s debut charting effort since the Billboard 200 transitioned from an album-sales only ranking to an equivalent album units-based chart on the Dec. 13, 2014 survey. It beats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/cardi-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cardi B<\/a>\u2019s debut studio set, and first Billboard 200 entry,&nbsp;<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>, which opened at No. 1 on the April 21, 2018 chart with 255,000 units. Rodrigo is also the first woman to see her debut charting album open at No. 1 since&nbsp;<em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second-Largest Streaming Week for a Non-R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Album:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Sour<\/em>\u00a0starts with 218,000 SEA units \u2013 totaling 300.73 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s 11 tracks. That marks the second-largest streaming week for both a non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop album and second-biggest for an album by a woman of any genre.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Thank U, Next<\/em>\u00a0continues to hold the record for the largest streaming week for a non-R&amp;B\/hip-hop set, and any album by a woman, with 307.07 million streams for its 12 tracks in its first week (chart dated Feb. 23, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Sour<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2019s Short and Sweet Arrival:<\/strong>&nbsp;With just 11 tracks in total on&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>, the album is the shortest No. 1, by track count, since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/bts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BTS<\/a>\u2019 eight-track&nbsp;<em>Be<\/em>&nbsp;debuted at No. 1 on the Dec. 5, 2020-dated chart. It\u2019s fairly unusual for such a short album to crown the Billboard 200.&nbsp;Of the 27 No. 1 albums in the past 12 months (from June 6, 2020-onwards), 20 of them had at least 15 tracks in their opening week, and 11 of those had at least 20. (Some albums will garner a reissue in their first week of release, adding further tracks beyond their standard core tracklist. And many albums typically get reissued weeks and months later, with additional tracks. So far,&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>&nbsp;only has 11 tracks across all retailers and streamers.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One last note on&nbsp;<em>Sour<\/em>\u2019s debut: It brings just the second person named Olivia to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Before Olivia Rodrigo, the only Olivia to top the chart was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/olivia-newton-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olivia Newton-John<\/a>, with two No. 1 albums in 1974 and 1975 (<em>If You Love Me Let Me Know<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Have You Never Been Mellow<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/j-cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J. Cole<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Off-Season<\/em>&nbsp;falls 1-2 in its second week on the Billboard 200 with 92,000 equivalent album units earned (down 67%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/twenty-one-pilots\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty One Pilots<\/a>\u00a0score their third top five-charting Billboard 200 entry, as the rock act\u2019s latest studio album,\u00a0<em>Scaled and Icy<\/em>, bows at No. 3 with 75,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 51,000, SEA units comprise 24,000 (equaling 33 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks) and TEA units comprise less than 1,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s former No. 1&nbsp;<em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>&nbsp;is a non-mover at No. 4 with 55,000 equivalent album units (up 4%), while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/moneybagg-yo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moneybagg Yo<\/a>\u2019s previous chart-topper&nbsp;<em>A Gangsta\u2019s Pain<\/em>&nbsp;falls 3-5 with 49,000 units (down 12%).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pooh-shiesty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pooh Shiesty<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Shiesty Season<\/em>&nbsp;returns to the top 10, vaulting 32-6 with 35,000 units (up 97%) after the album was reissued on May 21 with four additional tracks. The album was initially released on Feb. 5 with 17 tracks and peaked at No. 3 on the March 20-dated chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/dua-lipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dua Lipa<\/a>\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Future Nostalgia<\/em>&nbsp;slips 5-7 on the Billboard 200 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned (down 16%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/42-dugg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">42 Dugg<\/a>&nbsp;scores his first Billboard 200 top 10, and second charting album, as&nbsp;<em>Free Dem Boyz<\/em>&nbsp;bows at No. 8 with 32,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 31,000 (equaling 43.56 million on-demand streams of the album\u2019s tracks), album sales comprise 1,000 and TEA units comprise a negligible total. The album features his recent Hot 100 hit \u201c4 Da Gang,\u201d with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rodd-ricch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roddy Ricch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the new top 10 on the Billboard 200 are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2019s former leader\u00a0<em>Justice<\/em>\u00a0(7-9 with 31,000 equivalent album units; down 10%) and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop-smoke\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Smoke<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon\u00a0<\/em>(holding at No. 10 with 30,000 units; down 1%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2286\" data-postid=\"2286\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2286 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Twenty One Pilots and 42 Dugg debut in top 10. 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