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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2021 19:07:04 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo’s excitement over Taylor Swift getting in touch with her is the most relatable reaction. Olivia Rodrigo lost it when she saw Taylor Swift share how proud she was to see her huge success with ‘Drivers License’, freaking out on Instagram after the songstress’ casual comment. The Celebrities Loving Olivia Rodrigo's 'Drivers License' As Much As You – From Taylor Swift To Hailey Bieber And in a chat on The Official Big Top 40 as she celebrated reaching Number 1, Olivia revealed just how much it meant to her to see her biggest idol even mention her name. The ‘Drivers License’ singer also credited Taylor for inspiring her to write songs, revealing she knew the words to ‘Picture to Burn’ at just four years old. She recalled even singing the lyrics: ‘Cause I hate that stupid old pickup truck you never let me drive’ in an old home video her mum captured.
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2021 6:27:05 GMT
On Jan. 7, Olivia Rodrigo, known for her acting and singing on Disney’s Bizaardvark and Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, released “drivers license,” a heartbreak song that not only immediately shot to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 but also twice broke Spotify’s record for most daily streams of a non-holiday song. The song quickly became an overnight phenomenon, with TikTok users creating millions of videos recreating the music video or explaining the drama behind it. The song’s ripped-from-the-headlines backstory only added to the public’s obsession. Rodrigo has been a Taylor Swift fan since she was a kid, and Swift’s songwriting style has clearly inspired Rodrigo, who’s mined specific details of her life to tell the universal story of love lost. “I got my driver’s license last week, just like we always talked about / ‘cause you were so excited for me to finally drive up to your house,” she sings, later crooning about seeing the guy everywhere, especially in all the white cars. Fans quickly picked up on this, pointing out that Rodrigo said in an interview that her rumored former flame (and High School Musical co-star) Joshua Bassett taught her how to drive in his white car. But maybe the most telling lyrics come when Rodrigo sings, “I bet you’re with that blond girl, who always made me doubt / she’s so much older than me, she’s everything I’m insecure about,” because as it turns out, Bassett was recently seen with a blond girl who is “so much older”—four years, which is practically a decade to a 17-year-old like Rodrigo. Enter Sabrina Carpenter, recording artist and star of Girl Meets World and Netflix’s Work It. She’s the rumored “blond girl,” because she and Bassett were spotted together at Black Lives Matter protests over the summer and dining out in California—a year after Bassett allegedly wrote a love song about Rodrigo called “Anyone Else” in his Salt Lake City apartment while filming HSMTMTS, which Rodrigo nods to with: “I guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me” in “drivers license.” Rodrigo and Bassett seemed to be on good terms through late April, when Rodrigo liked Bassett’s tweet urging his followers to “remind someone you love them right now.” But in August, Rodrigo posted on TikTok about “failed relationships.” In an attempt to tell her side of the story, the 21-year-old Carpenter released “Skin” last week, which lacks any kind of self-awareness, especially considering she’s the elder in this situation. On “Skin,” she sings, “Maybe then we could pretend there’s no gravity in the words we write / Maybe you didn’t mean it, maybe ‘blond’ was the only rhyme,” and then later, “You can try to get under my, under my, under my skin / While he’s on mine.” Bassett subsequently praised the song on his Instagram, writing, “been stuck in my head since I heard it!!!”
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2021 23:32:13 GMT
The out-of-the-box hit is the latest chart titan to boast at least twice the weekly Hot 100 points of the runner-up title. http://instagram.com/p/CKZiq7-BByd With Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" racing onto the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Jan. 23, 2021) at No. 1, the out-of-the-box pop powerhouse easily laps every potential challenger, arriving with well over twice as many Hot 100 chart points as its closest competitor, the current No. 2 "Mood" by 24kgoldn featuring iann dior. "License" is the 24th song that can claim to be at least twice as popular as any other song on the chart that week. As with any juggernaut single in recent years, streaming, of course, is the key component that separates the champions from the challengers. In the case of "Drivers License," Rodrigo's profile among teens and young adults through her work on Disney, including High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, an intriguing backstory involving a real-life love triangle, and a co-sign from Taylor Swift pushed its initial success, which then sparked an avalanche of interest around the young singer, who's drawn comparisons to Swift, Lorde and others. Whichever avenue introduced fans and observers to "License," all roads led to streams of the strong, which registered 76.1 million U.S. clicks in the week ending Jan. 14, according to MRC Data, the highest total for a female artist's first single properly promoted to radio and streaming services. Olivia Rodrigo Is Blown Away by 'Drivers License' Debuting At No. 1 on Billboard Charts: 'This Is Crazy' The fine print: The Hot 100 ranks the most popular songs of the week in the U.S. based on a blend of streaming, airplay and sales data. The chart, which launched on Aug. 4, 1958, began incorporating Nielsen Music's electronically-measured point-of-sale and radio airplay information on the list dated Nov. 30, 1991. Since that date, only 24 songs have run away with enough sales, airplay and, since 2012, streaming activity to rule with at least a two-to-one points lead. With 356 No. 1s in that span (beginning with P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"), just under 7 percent of all leaders have ballooned to such heights.
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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2021 3:50:59 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo’s hot streak continues in the U.K. where “Drivers License” (Interscope) extends its reign into a second week. The teenage California singer and actor easily takes the title with 117,000 chart sales, some three times higher than her closest rival, Anne-Marie, KSI and Digital Farm Animals' “Don’t Play” (Atlantic), the Official Charts Company reports. http://instagram.com/p/CJxou7GBvDf “Drivers License” won the race to the top in its first week, busting streaming records along the way. This week, the hit single clocks up 13.7 million streams, the biggest one-week tally for a leader in two years, while a second track from the breakthrough artist cracks the Top 40 on the current frame, “All I Want,” a cut from High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on Disney +. It’s new at No. 32.
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2021 22:22:26 GMT
As her new smash reigns for a second week, her 2020 track surges worldwide. As Olivia Rodrigo rules both of Billboard's global charts with "Drivers License," it's not her only hit on the rankings. On the latest charts, dated Jan. 30, her smash, released Jan. 8, is joined by a song of hers released a year ago, "All I Want." To recap, "Drivers License" dominates the streaming- and sales-based Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a second week each, after launching atop the Jan. 23-dated lists. It drew 138.9 million streams worldwide in the week ending Jan. 21, according to MRC Data. In territories outside the U.S., it tallied 80.1 million. A year before her new stand-alone single arrived, Rodrigo released "All I Want," from Disney+'s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, in which she starred. The song dented the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, reaching No. 90 in January 2020; comparatively, and as on the global charts, "Drivers License" has topped the Hot 100 in its first two frames. Now, with steamrolling momentum for "Drivers License," "All I Want" is enjoying a resurgence, most evident on the global rankings. "All I Want" climbs to No. 119 in its second week on the Global 200 and debuts on the Global Excl. U.S. chart at No. 148. In the week ending Jan. 21, it gained by 7% to 13.3 million streams globally and by 27% to 8.3 million outside the U.S. "Drivers License" also gained in global streams in its second week: up 7% overall and up a hefty 47% outside the U.S.
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