Olivia Rodrigo kicked off her highly anticipatedSourTour in Portland Tuesday evening — and news of the teen superstar’s surprise cover of Veruca Salt‘s 1994 single “Seether” during the show set music Twitter ablaze, with reactions from fans of the trailblazing grunge outfit ranging from enthusiastic to bewildered. Veruca Salt, however, …
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January came in the middle of our first real Covid winter: Vaccines may have been on the horizon, offering a small glimmer of hope, but many people had just spent the holidays separated from their loved ones. And after a year of disco bops ruling the charts, a song just …
Read More »In Its Fourth Week At Number One, 'Good 4 U' Is Even Bigger Than 'Drivers License'
The reign of Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Good 4 U” continues this week, as the song enjoys its fourth consecutive week atop the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs Chart. “Good 4 U” pulled in an impressive 252,700 units last week, becoming only the fourth song to pull in over 250,000 units in …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Baby, Lil Durk Grab Number One With 'The Voice of the Heroes'
Lil Durk and Lil Baby‘s collaborative album The Voice of the Heroes debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with more than 176 million streams. The success of the joint release was not surprising: Lil Baby’s last album, My Turn, was a massive hit in …
Read More »RS Charts: Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' Tops RS 200 With Biggest Debut of the Year
Olivia Rodrigo scored the biggest debut of the year on the RS 200 with her debut album Sour. The concise, 11-song set earned 302,100 album-equivalent units, surpassing the first-week total for Fearless (Taylor’s Version) by over 10,000 units. Sour was a resounding streaming success, picking up nearly 280 million streams …
Read More »Amid 'Driver's License' Craze, Spotify's Canvas Tool Launches Out of Beta
In just a couple months, Olivia Rodrigo has shattered multiple records with her breakout hit, “Driver’s License,” from scoring the biggest debut in Rolling Stone 100 chart history to netting the greatest first-day streams of any artist. So it’s fitting that “Driver’s License,” whose Canvas art on Spotify also garnered …
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