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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2021 22:47:29 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour returns for a fifth week nonconsecutive, and total, week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, following its vinyl LP release on Aug. 20. It continues to have the second-most weeks at No. 1 in 2021, behind only Morgan Wallen’s 10-week run with Dangerous: The Double Album.
In the tracking week ending Aug. 26, Sour earned 133,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. (up 133%), according to MRC Data. Of that sum, album sales comprise 84,000 (up 1,201%), with vinyl LP sales equaling 76,000 of that figure (the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album since MRC Data began electronically tracking sales in 1991).
Also in the new top 10, the latest efforts from Trippie Redd and Lorde debut in the top 10, while deluxe reissues of Rod Wave’s SoulFly and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Chaos Chapter: Freeze return to the to the region, and Aaliyah’s long out-of-print 1996 album One In a Million hits the top 10 for the first time following its reissue on Aug. 20.
Like Evermore, Sour’s debut on vinyl came months after the album’s initial release via other formats. Evermore as bowed digitally and through streamers on Dec. 11, 2020, but its vinyl edition was not issued until May 28. Sour arrived via streamers and on CD, cassette and digital download on May 21, but did not hit vinyl until Aug. 20. By the time both Evermore and Sour were released on vinyl, they had months of pre-orders fueling their initial vinyl sales.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2021 21:54:01 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (Geffen) rebounds to No. 1 in the U.K. for a fifth non-consecutive week at the summit. Sour enjoys a burst of life following its release on vinyl, relegating Lorde’s new album Solar Power (EMI) to a No. 2 start on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. According to the OCC, Sour racks up the most sales and most streams of any album in the U.K. last week, including 7,800 units on wax. That sum means Sour is the fastest-selling female debut album on vinyl since 2000, eclipsing Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. http://instagram.com/p/CS-fwIppiMT Despite missing out on top spot, Lorde’s No. 2 start is her strongest chart debut in the U.K. to date, beating 2013’s Pure Heroine (No. 4) and 2017’s Melodrama (No. 5).
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2021 4:04:09 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo was just called out by an artist on social media for sharing her work on a recent Instagram post without crediting them, and Olivia has taken note. Artists have turned production problems caused by growing demand and supply-chain shortages into new release strategies. For the first time since 1986, U.S. vinyl record sales could reach $1 billion this year, which already has the top four biggest sales weeks for the format since MRC Data began tracking music sales in 1991: Taylor Swift’s evermore (102,000 sold), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour (76,000), Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever (73,000) and Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (67,000). Even more surprising, three of those four weeks happened months after the albums hit streaming services. Partly as a result of the pandemic, which has kept music fans home and prevented them from spending money on concert tickets, vinyl sales have skyrocketed -- unit sales in the United States grew 46.2% in 2020 and another 81% so far in 2021, according to MRC Data. But this growing demand has also caused delays in manufacturing, which have been exacerbated by global supply-chain problems and shortages of raw materials like PVC and paper products.
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2021 4:26:53 GMT
With the “drivers license” singer seemingly a shoo-in for best new artist, how are labels approaching a category unlike any other? http://instagram.com/p/CVTl3qJB5No This story is part of Billboard’s 2022 Grammy Preview issue, highlighting the artists, issues and trends that will define awards season. Read our cover story on Halsey, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross here. "This has been the most magical year of my life,” Olivia Rodrigo said in September at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she was named best new artist. And given the kind of planets-aligning commercial and critical success she has neatly achieved in this calendar year, it’s probably not the last award of that name she’ll claim in the coming months. http://instagram.com/p/CVS4nj_JUdp Few times in Grammy Awards history has there been such an obvious frontrunner for the category as Rodrigo. She is the first artist to debut her first three singles inside the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including two No. 1s: “drivers license” and “good 4 u,” both off her debut album, Sour, which has topped the Billboard 200 for five nonconsecutive weeks. Her meteoric rise has drawn comparisons to that of Billie Eilish, who swept the Big Four awards at the 2020 ceremony — the first time since Christopher Cross in 1981, and perhaps the only other time in the past decade where the best new artist winner has been so predictable. So what does that mean for everyone else? Multiple industry sources tell Billboard that labels typically do not take the potential competition into consideration when deciding which artists to submit, since those decisions are made early in the year. “We set our mantra at the top of the year,” says one label source, “and we follow it through all year long.” But strategy does come into play, given that even a nomination in the category has the potential to greatly change an act’s career. “Mumford & Sons were nominated [in 2011] and they did not win, but I think it motivated them,” says Glassnote Records founder/president Daniel Glass. “The next time they got nominated, they won for album of the year.” Artists and executives have long complained about the ambiguity of the best new artist rules, which have changed several times in the past decade. The award goes to the act that “achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and notably impacted the musical landscape” during the eligibility year, according to the Recording Academy rulebook. Every year, an official screening committee reviews the list of submissions — which can run from 500 to 1,000 names long, according to a source — to determine who is eligible. Last year, the Recording Academy scrapped a rule that disqualified artists who had released either 30 songs or three albums — better reflecting how artists release music today, but making eligibility even more subjective. Most labels and their artists’ teams identify that “breakthrough” by looking at factors including multiple hit singles, strong airplay, magazine covers and placement in artist programs like YouTube’s Artist on the Rise. “We look at live attendance and merch sales,” says Glass. “You know you’re developing fans when they buy your T-shirt.” Another label source’s method? “My test is people who are not in the industry,” she says. “I’ll say to my friends and family, ‘Do you know [this artist]?’”
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2021 2:36:04 GMT
Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license (Live From Austin City Limits)
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