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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2021 19:20:17 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo's “Drivers License” is motoring to a fifth week at No. 1 in the U.K.
Based on the weekend’s sales and streaming activity, “Drivers License” has almost 10,000 chart sales and comfortably leads the First Look chart, the OCC reports.
Rodrigo premiered the song live last week on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Olivia Rodrigo's 'Drivers License' Speeds to Pop Airplay Chart's Top 10 Meanwhile, Dutch EDM star Tiesto could spin his way into the U.K. top five for the third time, as “The Business” lifts 11-5.
Further down the list, West London rappers Digga D & AJ Tracey could snag the week’s highest new entry with “Bringing it Back.” It’s at No. 16, and is currently the most streamed new entry of the week.
Just one place behind is Cardi B’s new track “Up,” her first since the “WAP” dominated the chart in 2020.
The Official U.K. Singles Chart is published late Friday, local time.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2021 19:31:33 GMT
On Sunday, Courteney Cox shared a piano cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s song, ‘Drivers License,’ on Instagram. http://instagram.com/p/CLAEoAqDxc3 The ‘High School Musical Series’ star was quick to chime in on Courteney’s performance in the comments. Suzanne Somers and Sting’s wife, Trudie Styler, also praised the 56-year-old ‘Friends’ star for her skills!
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2021 7:07:59 GMT
According to PopSugar, Rodrigo has been writing song since grade school, and she believes she has a unique ability to share her character’s feelings through songs. “I knew what the character was going through like no one else, which is the cool part about an actor writing a song for their character,” she said. “Because they know all of the little intricacies of what the character has gone through.” Olivia Rodrigo admires this 1 singer/songwriter for how ‘brutally honest’ she is Rodrigo appreciates music that is written from a person’s heart, and she shares that she greatly admires a performer who has made honest music about her life—Gwen Stefani. “I love No Doubt. I think that Gwen Stefani is one of my favorite songwriters ever,” Rodrigo says on The Travis Mills Show, according to PopCrush. “She’s so honest.” One song in particular that touches Rodrigo is No Doubt’s 2000 song “Simple Kind of Life,” which is about Stefani’s desire to start a family conflicting with her music career. Rodrigo gushed, “Even in this song, she’s like, ‘I always thought I’d be a mom.’ I’m like, ‘Who says that?’ That’s so great. But everyone thinks it, but nobody always just has the intelligence to put it in a song I guess. And she does it. She’s just so brutally honest and emotional and I’m obsessed with her. So this is one of my favorite No Doubt tracks.” Perhaps it is not surprising that Rodrigo seems to be following in Stefani’s footsteps. In January 2021, Rodrigo released her debut single, “Drivers License,” which is a song about her experience with a heartbreak. “I wrote the bulk of the song literally crying in my living room, and I think that it definitely has that feel to it,” Rodrigo explained, according to Yahoo. “I was driving around my neighborhood, actually listening to really sad songs and crying in the car, and I got home and I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll write a song about this, crying in the car.’” She also added that “the pain is definitely real” in the track. http://instagram.com/p/CJ33Ebbhb1t While pouring one’s heart out can be a scary experience for some people, listeners worldwide have been extremely receptive to “Drivers License.” The song quickly shot up to the no. 1 position on the Billboard’s Hot 100. It also topped charts in several other countries.
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Post by Admin on Feb 21, 2021 21:25:53 GMT
Actress-singer Olivia Rodrigo turned 18 on Saturday — and got a surprise present from the cast of “Saturday Night Live” with a sketch devoted to a breakdown of her hit song “Drivers License.” “Drivers License SNL sketch is the best birthday present ever,” she tweeted in all-caps. “Im shaking.” The sketch featured guest host Regé-Jean Page and a bunch of the show’s male cast members gathered in a pool hall as they offered a detailed exegesis of Rodrigo’s song — and its origin story in a love triangle involving Rodrigo and other members of the cast of the Disney+ show “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” DRIVERS LICENSE SNL SKETCH IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER IM SHAKING — Olivia Rodrigo (@olivia_Rodrigo) February 21, 2021 The pool hall crowd is really feeling all the Hollywood teenage drama (according to fans and have media outlets Rodrigo was dumped by onscreen love interest Joshua Bassett for another Disney actress named Sabrina Carpenter, who is older and blonder). “It’s like she ripped a page out of my diary, I mean notebook, I mean plain brown leather — I can’t read or write!” Beck Bennett’s character blurted out in an attempt to hide the fact that he, too, keeps a journal. After discussing the song’s autobiographical origins and the influence of Billie Eilish, the guys also nearly come to blows over how much a debt Rodrigo’s songwriting owes to Taylor Swift. And that’s when an old man, played by Kate McKinnon, steps in to bring them all together to “Open your hearts and listen — we’re about to get the bridge of our lives.” So, the guys then sway together to sing along to the “Red lights, stop signs” portion of the song, which debuted in January at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and broke records on Spotify and other music platforms. (The song had the biggest first week ever on both Spotify and Amazon Music.)
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2021 5:05:37 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo celebrated her 18th birthday on Saturday (Feb. 20) by looking back at some of the songs she's loved and the songwriters who have influenced her. "In honor of me turning 18, I'm going to share with you guys 18 of my favorite songs that shaped me into the girl I am today," the "Drivers License" hitmaker said in a video uploaded on YouTube on her big day. Rodrigo, who hasn't been shy about her admiration of Taylor Swift, included three Swift tracks on her list, which is heavy with music by female artists. Songs by Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Lorde and Kacey Musgraves were among Rodrigo's other picks. "'Picture to Burn' was my first favorite song," she said of the early Swift track, off of her debut album that was released in 2006, when Rodrigo was just 3 years old. "I was super young when it came out, and I remember I like wasn't allowed to say 'stupid old pickup truck' because I thought stupid was a bad word." Her more recent Swift picks were 1989's "Out of the Woods," also a favorite of her mom's -- "The bridge is just so good. I scream it at the top of my lungs" -- and Folklore's "Betty." Rodrigo opened up about her love of Lorde's "A World Alone," from Pure Heroine: "It was the first record that I remember listening to and being like, 'Oh my god, I see myself in those lyrics ... I feel seen by what she's saying," she said.
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