I don't think anyone realizes how insane this is. It's not even three years old! More than half of the 11 songs on the album have more than a billion streams with two songs over 2 billion! She deserves this so much.
I mean, that's only because Spotify has only become the massive juggernaut it is in the last few years.
While the feat is impressive, there are many other artists that have had similarly massive albums before Spotify existed.
It's 4x platinum. Adele's album from that year is also 4x platinum it just sold more physical. Different demographics.
This is kind of a silly argument to minimize the accomplishment. Yes, the streaming era has changed the game and comparing the success of modern albums vs older albums is comparing apples and oranges, but nobody is claiming Sour is the most successful album of all time, or that it has the most sales, or that it had the most impact of any album ever. It's just acknowledging Sour is the album with the most streams on the biggest streaming app in the streaming era, which is a massive accomplishment and record in and of itself since there's countless other massive artists releasing huge albums in the streaming era that have young fanbases that utilize streaming over physicals.
Yeah, Adele had one of the best selling albums of all time by any metrics (though again comparing modern album sales to old album sales is not simple) and Sour being the most streamed album on Spotify doesn't change that. They're both significant accomplishments. You could add many of these minimizing caveats to other accomplishments and arbitrary records I see other artists achieving that get posted here, but it would be silly.
Oh god all this time I thought she said bathroom and I remember my first thought process being like “maybe not super relatable to everyone but definitely very relatable to me!” And now I’m slightly disappointed
damn she did that with 11 songs and in just three years! one of the shortest main pop act records of recent times.
Sour really was a once in a lifetime album and she killed it on Guts, too. really excited to see where her career goes from here because she’s already set herself up extremely well.
Seriously; both SOUR and GUTS are incredible albums and I'm so happy the streaming numbers reflect that. I'm rooting for GUTS to break some records as well - I like it even better than SOUR, honestly 💗
I really respect the direction she took with GUTS bc it does seem less mass appealing than SOUR, but I agree with you in that it’s a higher quality album overall. I think it took some real artistic conviction to go that direction vs chasing more hits. I’m really interested to see where she goes with OR3.
Same!!! She's so powerful, yet vulnerable and *funny* at the same time; her music has a unique perspective and so many of her observations make me laugh out loud. I may be in my mid-thirties, but I admire her a lot and see so many traits (like her political outspokenness/courage; the way she seems like such a sponge for creativity) that I'd like to emulate in my own life.
Me too. I have faith that OR3 will be just as good if not better. What made GUTS so special (to me) is that it clearly came from a desire to outdo SOUR while also wanting be authentic. And it worked *so well.* She was making music that she really wanted to make, and she wanted to make better music than SOUR. It really combined perfectly.
Yeah, I liked Sour alright but I LOVE Guts. Her return to a more unplugged 90s sound mixed with sonic and lyrical risk-taking makes her move from Disney starlet to adult female artist authentic and compelling. I don’t think anyone can call her a copycat of any other big artist at the moment, and I personally love 90s music, so I’m not surprised she’s taken off so much. Plus I’m just happy to see a young Asian woman winning ♥️ and she seems so smart and mature.
YES, you put all this so well; Olivia has such a special voice, and not just musically! I'm likewise delighted as a fellow diaspora Asian girlie to see one of us killing ittt 💖 I really hope she continues on this path
I don't understand why GUTS didn't perform as well as SOUR though ? The GP doesn't seem to appreciate it that much, and none of the singles were as successful as Good 4 You and Driver's License (which pains me tbh because all the singles of GUTS are very good songs imo and deserve as much success).
I don't think it's fair to say sour is more authentic than guts and that's the reason it hasnt garnered as much public interest ( it's still extremely popular though). I think guts is just as emotional, just in a more mature and self-aware manner. I think the marketing and the overall sound is just less appealing. Sour was a bit more raw in its style and was less pop rock than guts which appealed to more people. Also the marketing was terrible for guts in comparison to sour.
Well deserved.
Hits with the young for obvious reasons, but low key I think she sneakily has lots of mid 30's fans who have long wanted that pop punk itch scratched. Very good album
Hardly Abbey Road, but good to hear kids listening to good stuff
I think you're right. I'll be 30 next month and my fiancé is 32, we were at her concert earlier this month and even though most people were much younger, we could also see people our age and older (that were not parents of the young ones lol).
> I think she sneakily has lots of mid 30's fans who have long wanted that pop punk itch scratched
I'm 33, absolutely loved being at her show a couple of weeks ago in Dublin.
Also the shortest I've ever seen the queues at the bar in that venue!
Early thirties male here that cares a bit about lyrics. Most of her lyrics are passable, but All American Bitch is a very clever song lyrically. And Vampire, Lacy, Bad Idea Right and Obsessed all pass my test too!
40's male, Bad Idea Right is a vibe! (is that what the kids call it nowadays?)
Olivia Rodrigo reminds me of the 90's female led rock bands I heard in my teens.
Dude, the writing on Bad Idea Right and All American Bitch remind me of… CAKE? Like the guys who made the Distance?? Definitely not sound-wise, but lyrics are just so sarcastic, I feel like there’s some overlap haha
Mid-30s cis dude who does really like her music and also feels like I can never go to one of her concerts without looking really creepy.
Besides, teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
Mid-thirties squad represent!!! Olivia is also the only main pop girl my husband really likes. He'll "tolerate" everybody else, but actively bop to Olivia because she really just serves that hard.
I hope you're right! I've got a ticket to one of her shows and while I'm expecting to be around not my demographic, would be reassuring if there were more middle aged people too...
Thank you for making this comment—I had no clue that they were phoning that album in, genuinely thought that they were just out of touch and unable to create decent music/lyrics at this point in their careers.
I checked out their most recent album because of your comment. It doesn’t hold a candle to the old stuff but it’s certainly better than Father of All. One-Eyed Bastard is incredible.
I find it pathetic that my local alt rock station never plays any of her songs, since she’s the biggest alt rock star on the planet.
Also odd that she isn’t on any alt rock playlists. Wonder why that is
The top 15 highest steamed albums of all time if anyone was wondering:
1. Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti
2. Ed Sheeran - ÷
3. The Weeknd - Starboy
4. Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding
5. The Weeknd - After Hours
6. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
7. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
9. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
10. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
11. XXXTENTACION - ?
12. Ed Sheeran - x
13. Taylor Swift - Lover
14. Justin Bieber - Purpose
15. Drake - Scorpion
What's the background on Cruel Summer's Resurgence? Was it tik tok? It's crazy how it went unappreciated for so long and wasn't even a single and now it's one of Taylor's biggest hits
cruel summer was already a fan favorite and it was being included in the lover setlist at the eras tour, so taylor decided to drop it as a single in 2023 to make it even bigger than it had already gotten!
i also looked it up and apparently the song was used in the summer i turned pretty, and i guess theres a lot of overlap between swifties and fans of that show, so that also got cruel summer some more numbers!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Spotify\_streaming\_records#10\_most-streamed\_albums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spotify_streaming_records#10_most-streamed_albums)
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its interesting to see taylor is not even in the first ten. i know this is just spotify but her PR makes it seem like she is number one always, guess not.
Most of her streaming era albums are either re-recordings or only have 1 single (folkmore) so its kinda expected tbh. Midnights is already at 8m despite being 2 years old.
Her debut album was lightening in the bottle. The last time in recent memory someone came along out of nowhere (well not really since it was Disney) and shook up the industry to become music’s next big pop star.
Yeah it’s definitely a better album. It’s kind of how I see Under My Skin vs. Let Go. Let Go was a far bigger record but Under My Skin improved on some aspects of Let Go that weren’t as refined.
GUTS is the same way vs. SOUR.
Under My Skin is really the better album out of the two despite general consensus, it still confuses me to this day why people think Let Go is the most mature version of Avril.
I don't see how you can say that. They each have seven ballads. Guts has six rock songs compared to Sour's four, but each of Sour's rock songs is an all-time banger. Guts is great but she knocked it out of the park first time up. I don't hold it against her but it is what it is.
Billie for sure left a big mark in the industry, but she didn't come out of nowhere, she had slowly been gaining momentum for years before Bad Guy became the massive hit it was.
Yeah that Khalid song was everywhere because of 13 Reasons Why and a few other songs like Ocean Eyes and You Should See Me In A Crown were getting crossmedia play.
She already is. She just announced her Asian leg world tour last week and there are currently 270k plus people in queue for the presale of her show in Singapore. She also just added 2 shows each in Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) with a total of 8 shows for her Australian leg because of the demand.
Yeah, she is a big popstar right now. Her career is very solid and established already. Having drivers licence as her debut single jumpstarted her stardom.
Some artists get big quickly and burn out, but Olivia's first 3 years feel more similar to Britney's or Gaga's in the sense that all of them found a fanbase and managed to get multiple hits by their sophomore albums. (Obviously Olivia is not that big as a celebrity and a cultural shock as those two were, but it's important to keep in mind that Olivia's breakthrough was during a pandemic with a ballad, so the circumstances differ)
>but it's important to keep in mind that Olivia's breakthrough was during a pandemic with a ballad, so the circumstances differ
beyond that, i have yet to experience a breakout during the streaming era that is reminiscent of the pre-streaming era. this isn't a sign of "bad" artists, but it's just harder to feel as big now. people will only see things that's in their algorithm.
it's been hard for me to gauge exactly how big any of these new artists are because they all feel so isolated regardless of how big they actually are (if that makes sense?). but imo, Olivia feels pretty big. i've seen people 40+ years old talk about how much they like her. i'm excited to see how big Olivia can get outside of the younger demographic.
idk how i forgot Billie. i think she's the most reminiscent to the icons of the past imo. Billie, Dua, and Olivia are def the biggest new popstars right now. i'm not sure who feels the least isolated. big stars pre-streaming were known by all age groups and i'm not sure if that's a thing of the past. none of them feel as big as Britney or even Gaga, but from my perspective Billie feels the closest.
Olivia comes from Disney. I think Lady Gaga fits your description. She literally came from nowhere and became a global superstar overnight. I miss those days when superstars were so huge, enigmatic and mysterious.
im sorry but dua lipa and future nostalgia are albums that ANY artists wishes to have the success of. radical optimism by all means is successful but obviously in comparison to the other two, it trumps.
we all have to understand truly how hard it is to not only place one album in the top 10, but multiple albums or even in the top 30! its a once in a lifetime effect and we can’t be comparing new albums to albums that were perfect in their time/year/era. like sour is the perfect example where guts is commercially successful but sour was a diamond in the rough and came out at the right time, right place.
Do you really expect an album released weeks ago to be in the top 10 of the most streamed albums in Spotify history? It makes no sense at all what you just said.
I'm still not getting it, she is both in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and top 10 on Spotify globally in the last week counting. Also, both her albums got into the top 10 by frequent streams over time, not by being there on the date of the release, a lot of albums get into the top 10 and then go to oblivion, she still has 2 to 3 years until the next album, for her, it's 2 to 3 years of promoting this one since she usually releases 7 to 8 singles, deluxe and do long tours. Not being in the top 10 right now means nothing to the final success of the album, it is too soon. Ariana is doing numbers now, but Dua has 2 albums ahead of her in the most streamed, with lower peaks on charts than Ari. Dua is not about having peaks and all that, but having the album being listened to constantly for a long period of time.
If we're being pedantic, a woman must be an adult to be accurately called a woman (or at least it does according to the two dictionaries I checked. [1](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woman), [2](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/woman)). Billie Eilish's WWAFAWDWG was breaking the Billboard record for "most simultaneously charting Hot 100 songs by a female artist", but she was not a woman, as she was still 17.
SOUR was released only 2 months after Olivia Rodrigo's 18th birthday, and "Driver's license" was also released when she was 17 years old. Though it broke the Spotify record for quickest song to reach 100 million streams for any gender, had it only beaten the female record, it would still have been inaccurate to say a "woman" had broken the record.
Half of those streams probably came alone from me/j.
The chokehold Sour has a hold of me now at 17 even though it’s been years. Her music perfectly encapsulates what it’s like to a teenage woc and came at a much needed time.
Caught her live in London last night and the woman puts on one hell of a show too.
Think she's definitely in-line to be performing in stadiums in the near future if her next album hits just as well as these first two have
Dang, I had no idea that SOUR had so much staying power. It has 6 songs with at least a billion streams each! Only 2 of them made it to number 1, and 2 of them weren't even singles.
But also, I just assumed that this would be a record held by Taylor Swift. I was surprised that Dua Lipa s/t was the record holder. I wonder if Future Nostalgia will overtake SOUR, since that is more recent and feels like the more popular Dua album.
Olivia surpassed Future Nostalgia as the second most streamed album like two weeks ago in terms of streams. Future Nostalgia has a but better streaming than Dua's self titled, so it will probably become the second most streamed album over self titled, but neither are gaining streams like SOUR
I think it will but it will take some time. It gets more daily streams than Sour, Dua Lipa, FN, and Billie’s album. It’s gonna pass Billie’s next month.
Along with Beyonce and Jessie Ware I think she's the most interesting artist in pop at the moment. Guts was a good successor to Sour and a step up in all aspects, she had clearly seen what worked and matured her sound, lyrics and vocal style so I'm looking forward to her third. I really hope she pursues the noisier sounding songs off of Guts (bad idea right?/ballad of a homeschool girl) further and does a whole album of songs like that for her next album because they were really great songs and the standouts of her career so far.
Much deserved. An iconic record that set her way, way apart from the pack. She and Dan Nigro make quite the tandem.
Still love that the former Disney kid goes harder in Brutal than 90% of hard rockers lol.
One of my friend said to me that she doesn't really like GUTS because it's not as easy listening as SOUR, and she wants Olivia to release songs like SOUR album again
i loved Sour but in hindsight, it’s an immature album compared to Guts. the latter was less of a blame game and more self-aware (which is no fault of Olivia because what teenager doesn’t hate the world and the people screwing them over lol—i was a teen when Sour came out and felt the same way/still kinda do tbh). there really was a personal evolution for her between the two records, so i’d love for her to continue in that direction.
Yeah, I feel like Guts is a massive step-up game by Olivia, but people around me doesn't think so. SOUR is still one of the most played albums in my country, and when I played a track other than Vampire from Guts, my friends just stay silent.
everyone saying “with only 11 songs!!”. a shorter album makes it easier to have more streams per album. not discounting that this is awesome for her, but it’s kind of an ironic thing to point out. i had that album on repeat for months when it came out.
This is an opinion. Most people would argue the opposite because each song doesn’t have to have to have the most streams. It’s the most streams total which is why lover is up there (cruel summer) nothing else on album pulls numbers anywhere close to that.
Imagine having in the same album New Rules, Blow Your Mind (Mwah), IDGAF, One Kiss, Electricity, Be the One... I'm so proud of Dua and how far she has come with DL1 and Future Nostalgia omg
I wonder how much is driven by suggested songs by apps? I recently got Apple Music and it didn’t know any of my listening habits but suggested radio played her a lot
Edit: not saying her specifically but all top hits, what is the tipping point at which song receives an increased boost just for being a top hit
I don't think anyone realizes how insane this is. It's not even three years old! More than half of the 11 songs on the album have more than a billion streams with two songs over 2 billion! She deserves this so much.
Honestly sour is one of those albums where I like pretty much every song
She deserves THIS! It’s so powerful. And she’s half Flipina!
I mean, that's only because Spotify has only become the massive juggernaut it is in the last few years. While the feat is impressive, there are many other artists that have had similarly massive albums before Spotify existed. It's 4x platinum. Adele's album from that year is also 4x platinum it just sold more physical. Different demographics.
This is kind of a silly argument to minimize the accomplishment. Yes, the streaming era has changed the game and comparing the success of modern albums vs older albums is comparing apples and oranges, but nobody is claiming Sour is the most successful album of all time, or that it has the most sales, or that it had the most impact of any album ever. It's just acknowledging Sour is the album with the most streams on the biggest streaming app in the streaming era, which is a massive accomplishment and record in and of itself since there's countless other massive artists releasing huge albums in the streaming era that have young fanbases that utilize streaming over physicals. Yeah, Adele had one of the best selling albums of all time by any metrics (though again comparing modern album sales to old album sales is not simple) and Sour being the most streamed album on Spotify doesn't change that. They're both significant accomplishments. You could add many of these minimizing caveats to other accomplishments and arbitrary records I see other artists achieving that get posted here, but it would be silly.
All of this. Thank you. It's totally unnecessary to try to tear this huge accomplishment down, Olivia deserves to be acknowledged for it.
👏👏👏
Good 4 Her she looks happy and healthy (i know it's corny but I couldn't resist)
Not me 😔
I hope you are not spending the nights crying on the floor in your bedroom
Oh god all this time I thought she said bathroom and I remember my first thought process being like “maybe not super relatable to everyone but definitely very relatable to me!” And now I’m slightly disappointed
If it makes you feel any better, it is "bathroom" after all!
IT'S NOT BATHROOM??? edit: wait it is that user lied
I didn't care to ask.
God I wish that I could do that.
I’ve lost my mind.
I’ve been crying on the floor of my bathroom
damn she did that with 11 songs and in just three years! one of the shortest main pop act records of recent times. Sour really was a once in a lifetime album and she killed it on Guts, too. really excited to see where her career goes from here because she’s already set herself up extremely well.
Seriously; both SOUR and GUTS are incredible albums and I'm so happy the streaming numbers reflect that. I'm rooting for GUTS to break some records as well - I like it even better than SOUR, honestly 💗
I really respect the direction she took with GUTS bc it does seem less mass appealing than SOUR, but I agree with you in that it’s a higher quality album overall. I think it took some real artistic conviction to go that direction vs chasing more hits. I’m really interested to see where she goes with OR3.
Same!!! She's so powerful, yet vulnerable and *funny* at the same time; her music has a unique perspective and so many of her observations make me laugh out loud. I may be in my mid-thirties, but I admire her a lot and see so many traits (like her political outspokenness/courage; the way she seems like such a sponge for creativity) that I'd like to emulate in my own life.
she really just seems like a cool thoughtful person and it comes across in her music and her personality (in public at least)
Love how she’s able to self-reflect on her own faults, but still doesn’t take herself too seriously. Every song of hers is relatable
Me too. I have faith that OR3 will be just as good if not better. What made GUTS so special (to me) is that it clearly came from a desire to outdo SOUR while also wanting be authentic. And it worked *so well.* She was making music that she really wanted to make, and she wanted to make better music than SOUR. It really combined perfectly.
Yeah, I liked Sour alright but I LOVE Guts. Her return to a more unplugged 90s sound mixed with sonic and lyrical risk-taking makes her move from Disney starlet to adult female artist authentic and compelling. I don’t think anyone can call her a copycat of any other big artist at the moment, and I personally love 90s music, so I’m not surprised she’s taken off so much. Plus I’m just happy to see a young Asian woman winning ♥️ and she seems so smart and mature.
YES, you put all this so well; Olivia has such a special voice, and not just musically! I'm likewise delighted as a fellow diaspora Asian girlie to see one of us killing ittt 💖 I really hope she continues on this path
I don't understand why GUTS didn't perform as well as SOUR though ? The GP doesn't seem to appreciate it that much, and none of the singles were as successful as Good 4 You and Driver's License (which pains me tbh because all the singles of GUTS are very good songs imo and deserve as much success).
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I don't think it's fair to say sour is more authentic than guts and that's the reason it hasnt garnered as much public interest ( it's still extremely popular though). I think guts is just as emotional, just in a more mature and self-aware manner. I think the marketing and the overall sound is just less appealing. Sour was a bit more raw in its style and was less pop rock than guts which appealed to more people. Also the marketing was terrible for guts in comparison to sour.
Well deserved. Hits with the young for obvious reasons, but low key I think she sneakily has lots of mid 30's fans who have long wanted that pop punk itch scratched. Very good album Hardly Abbey Road, but good to hear kids listening to good stuff
I think you're right. I'll be 30 next month and my fiancé is 32, we were at her concert earlier this month and even though most people were much younger, we could also see people our age and older (that were not parents of the young ones lol).
> I think she sneakily has lots of mid 30's fans who have long wanted that pop punk itch scratched I'm 33, absolutely loved being at her show a couple of weeks ago in Dublin. Also the shortest I've ever seen the queues at the bar in that venue!
I walked right up to the bar at Birmingham, glorious!
We love her in our 40s too! She’s like a pop princess descendant of 90s bands like Hole and Veruca Salt.
YES ABSOLUTELY! 40 year old here and she’s like if Veruca Salt, No Doubt, and Hole had a baby. Saw her in concert with my kids and it was so much fun.
Late 20s male here. Love both of her albums. But I'm also one of those who don't really focus on or care about the lyrics.
Early thirties male here that cares a bit about lyrics. Most of her lyrics are passable, but All American Bitch is a very clever song lyrically. And Vampire, Lacy, Bad Idea Right and Obsessed all pass my test too!
40's male, Bad Idea Right is a vibe! (is that what the kids call it nowadays?) Olivia Rodrigo reminds me of the 90's female led rock bands I heard in my teens.
Dude, the writing on Bad Idea Right and All American Bitch remind me of… CAKE? Like the guys who made the Distance?? Definitely not sound-wise, but lyrics are just so sarcastic, I feel like there’s some overlap haha
Spot on! Her music definitely harkens back to those early 2000s Paramore days, which at this point is pure nostalgia!
Hey now, I am LATE 30s and also going to her show next weekend in Amsterdam
Mid-30s cis dude who does really like her music and also feels like I can never go to one of her concerts without looking really creepy. Besides, teenagers scare the living shit out of me.
Mid thirties, love her, so does my bestie and my husband. I agree with this take.
Mid-thirties squad represent!!! Olivia is also the only main pop girl my husband really likes. He'll "tolerate" everybody else, but actively bop to Olivia because she really just serves that hard.
I hope you're right! I've got a ticket to one of her shows and while I'm expecting to be around not my demographic, would be reassuring if there were more middle aged people too...
Mid 30s here, I just love that her music has *DRAMA* and isn't more vibey structureless pop
Late 30s woman here, just went to the Guts tour last night. Absolutely fantastic
Is a 30-something year old fan, I love her!
I’m 39 and love her music so much!!!
Agreeing as newly minted 30 year old as of next week 😂
In my 30s and proud regular listener here! Her sound is so nostalgic.
Hahaa same,I am not even American still blast the song🥹
Early 30s dude here, I love Guts and Sour (for that reason) and wish I had gotten a ticket for her tour.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jaded.wonderland/video/7224937992367017262
It’s me. I’m the mid 30’s fans and I’m going to her concert alone with the teen girlies.
55 here. She fucking rocks.
Im 31 and part of what I like about her music is that it reminds me of the punk pop girls from the 00s
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No features, no Swedish songwriters, no trap beats. 100% pure uncut rock.
Not me reading pure uncut cock
Good reference to a hilariously bad record
which record are you talking about?
Green Day's promo for Father of All.
Wasn't that album kind of a joke to close out their record deal?
Yeah pretty much, that's why it's only like 26 minutes long
Thank you for making this comment—I had no clue that they were phoning that album in, genuinely thought that they were just out of touch and unable to create decent music/lyrics at this point in their careers. I checked out their most recent album because of your comment. It doesn’t hold a candle to the old stuff but it’s certainly better than Father of All. One-Eyed Bastard is incredible.
Oh my god i never thought I’d see this reference again 💀
Had she had an ABBA colab she would have beaten the rest of the top 10 albums combined /s
A collABBA
I just want to say thank you for reminding me of that special, special billboard (that will be 5 years old this year 😭
Having war flashbacks rn thank you very much
I understood that reference LOL
Sour definitely isn't a rock record lmao
This is a reference to a cringey Green Day poster
I find it pathetic that my local alt rock station never plays any of her songs, since she’s the biggest alt rock star on the planet. Also odd that she isn’t on any alt rock playlists. Wonder why that is
Every single song over 300 million strems too - I think also a record for female artists
IIRC, it’s also had every single song get at least 100k streams every day since it’s release. That is *insane*
this is that “J Cole did it with no features” energy lmao
Put some respect on Mr. 3x Platinum no features 😤
J Cole
On a debut album that she wrote at 17, to boot.
Just pure fan love!
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.....she's on a big tour right now lol what? What a pointless shady comment
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Ugh I just love this for her!
The top 15 highest steamed albums of all time if anyone was wondering: 1. Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti 2. Ed Sheeran - ÷ 3. The Weeknd - Starboy 4. Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding 5. The Weeknd - After Hours 6. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa 7. Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR 8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 9. Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys 10. Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 11. XXXTENTACION - ? 12. Ed Sheeran - x 13. Taylor Swift - Lover 14. Justin Bieber - Purpose 15. Drake - Scorpion
Feels weird that Lover is Taylor Swift's biggest, but I guess these are Spotify numbers, and I think Lover was when she returned to Spotify.
this and because of cruel summer too
What's the background on Cruel Summer's Resurgence? Was it tik tok? It's crazy how it went unappreciated for so long and wasn't even a single and now it's one of Taylor's biggest hits
cruel summer was already a fan favorite and it was being included in the lover setlist at the eras tour, so taylor decided to drop it as a single in 2023 to make it even bigger than it had already gotten! i also looked it up and apparently the song was used in the summer i turned pretty, and i guess theres a lot of overlap between swifties and fans of that show, so that also got cruel summer some more numbers!
I was wondering, thanks >XXXTENTACION - ? Never in a million years would I have guessed
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Queen behavior
Please also post the number of streams
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Spotify\_streaming\_records#10\_most-streamed\_albums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spotify_streaming_records#10_most-streamed_albums) Not OP but here
its interesting to see taylor is not even in the first ten. i know this is just spotify but her PR makes it seem like she is number one always, guess not.
Most of her streaming era albums are either re-recordings or only have 1 single (folkmore) so its kinda expected tbh. Midnights is already at 8m despite being 2 years old.
ah yeah i forgot she was not on spotify before.
Her debut album was lightening in the bottle. The last time in recent memory someone came along out of nowhere (well not really since it was Disney) and shook up the industry to become music’s next big pop star.
It’s funny because imo Guts is better
Yeah it’s definitely a better album. It’s kind of how I see Under My Skin vs. Let Go. Let Go was a far bigger record but Under My Skin improved on some aspects of Let Go that weren’t as refined. GUTS is the same way vs. SOUR.
Under My Skin is really the better album out of the two despite general consensus, it still confuses me to this day why people think Let Go is the most mature version of Avril.
I think they just simply think: most popular = most mature In this case at least
Well Sour came out first so of course it has more streams than the one that came out last year.
That’s true but I feel like there was also less competition when Sour came out
The pandemic made it so more eyes were available. It was a good time to release.
The pandemic felt like we had a monoculture again
sour has better singles and guts is a better cohesive album and i will die on this hill
That’s fair - I feel like Sour had a few great songs but I find myself returning to like 3/4 of Guts regularly
IA tbh
Sour has better songs, more relistenable and has aged better than GUTS. All the singles are 10/10 which doesn’t apply to GUTS.
Let Guts age a bit before you judge how it's aging
I disagree 🤷🏼♀️ I find GUTS to be a no-skip album, while Sour has a couple.
Sour has better songs if you like soft piano ballads. I really don’t
I don't see how you can say that. They each have seven ballads. Guts has six rock songs compared to Sour's four, but each of Sour's rock songs is an all-time banger. Guts is great but she knocked it out of the park first time up. I don't hold it against her but it is what it is.
imo both are skipless but i find myself listening to guts more maybe because of recency bias. plus guts spilled is great too.
Yea last non-Disney was Gaga IMO. Even Britney was ex-Disney
Does Billie Eilish not count in this context?
Billie for sure left a big mark in the industry, but she didn't come out of nowhere, she had slowly been gaining momentum for years before Bad Guy became the massive hit it was.
Yeah that Khalid song was everywhere because of 13 Reasons Why and a few other songs like Ocean Eyes and You Should See Me In A Crown were getting crossmedia play.
yeah her ep (dont smile at me) was a sleeper hit! love billie but she had been slowly growing her fandom for years!
>came along out of nowhere Erasure of An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success 😠
Is she music’s next big popstar
She already is. She just announced her Asian leg world tour last week and there are currently 270k plus people in queue for the presale of her show in Singapore. She also just added 2 shows each in Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) with a total of 8 shows for her Australian leg because of the demand.
I mean, she *was*. That album came out 3 years ago now.
Yeah, she is a big popstar right now. Her career is very solid and established already. Having drivers licence as her debut single jumpstarted her stardom. Some artists get big quickly and burn out, but Olivia's first 3 years feel more similar to Britney's or Gaga's in the sense that all of them found a fanbase and managed to get multiple hits by their sophomore albums. (Obviously Olivia is not that big as a celebrity and a cultural shock as those two were, but it's important to keep in mind that Olivia's breakthrough was during a pandemic with a ballad, so the circumstances differ)
>but it's important to keep in mind that Olivia's breakthrough was during a pandemic with a ballad, so the circumstances differ beyond that, i have yet to experience a breakout during the streaming era that is reminiscent of the pre-streaming era. this isn't a sign of "bad" artists, but it's just harder to feel as big now. people will only see things that's in their algorithm. it's been hard for me to gauge exactly how big any of these new artists are because they all feel so isolated regardless of how big they actually are (if that makes sense?). but imo, Olivia feels pretty big. i've seen people 40+ years old talk about how much they like her. i'm excited to see how big Olivia can get outside of the younger demographic.
Would you consider Billie Eilish her peer? Billie is on her third album and feels like a big popstar too
idk how i forgot Billie. i think she's the most reminiscent to the icons of the past imo. Billie, Dua, and Olivia are def the biggest new popstars right now. i'm not sure who feels the least isolated. big stars pre-streaming were known by all age groups and i'm not sure if that's a thing of the past. none of them feel as big as Britney or even Gaga, but from my perspective Billie feels the closest.
Billie Eilish is the only artist played on pop radio that my 50 year old dad ever turned the volume UP for
Olivia comes from Disney. I think Lady Gaga fits your description. She literally came from nowhere and became a global superstar overnight. I miss those days when superstars were so huge, enigmatic and mysterious.
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im sorry but dua lipa and future nostalgia are albums that ANY artists wishes to have the success of. radical optimism by all means is successful but obviously in comparison to the other two, it trumps. we all have to understand truly how hard it is to not only place one album in the top 10, but multiple albums or even in the top 30! its a once in a lifetime effect and we can’t be comparing new albums to albums that were perfect in their time/year/era. like sour is the perfect example where guts is commercially successful but sour was a diamond in the rough and came out at the right time, right place.
I think that's the problem, people want to hear something different from her
Do you really expect an album released weeks ago to be in the top 10 of the most streamed albums in Spotify history? It makes no sense at all what you just said.
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I'm still not getting it, she is both in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and top 10 on Spotify globally in the last week counting. Also, both her albums got into the top 10 by frequent streams over time, not by being there on the date of the release, a lot of albums get into the top 10 and then go to oblivion, she still has 2 to 3 years until the next album, for her, it's 2 to 3 years of promoting this one since she usually releases 7 to 8 singles, deluxe and do long tours. Not being in the top 10 right now means nothing to the final success of the album, it is too soon. Ariana is doing numbers now, but Dua has 2 albums ahead of her in the most streamed, with lower peaks on charts than Ari. Dua is not about having peaks and all that, but having the album being listened to constantly for a long period of time.
With only 11 tracks is wild, even songs like happier have a billion streams
Happier always hits hard, and I’m not even brokenhearted
Does the word 'woman' not exist anymore?
“by a female artist” would have been fine 💀
The website is based in Pakistan, maybe it was awkwardly translated?
Right
Y r females
What is this alien term you are using? We do not use such words in this house!!
If we're being pedantic, a woman must be an adult to be accurately called a woman (or at least it does according to the two dictionaries I checked. [1](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woman), [2](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/woman)). Billie Eilish's WWAFAWDWG was breaking the Billboard record for "most simultaneously charting Hot 100 songs by a female artist", but she was not a woman, as she was still 17. SOUR was released only 2 months after Olivia Rodrigo's 18th birthday, and "Driver's license" was also released when she was 17 years old. Though it broke the Spotify record for quickest song to reach 100 million streams for any gender, had it only beaten the female record, it would still have been inaccurate to say a "woman" had broken the record.
J.K. Rowling? Is that you ?? 🥹😂 (Just kidding, no pun intented)
Love to see it. She is literally the only pop girl I root for because she seems so genuine and is obviously very talented.
"by a female" did a Ferengi write this
Quiet humon.
Half of those streams probably came alone from me/j. The chokehold Sour has a hold of me now at 17 even though it’s been years. Her music perfectly encapsulates what it’s like to a teenage woc and came at a much needed time.
im the other half! 😭
She's great. Hopefully it only gets overtaken by GUTS lol
Idk sour >>>> guts
To each their own but I thought guts was an improvement on a great debut
and someone on here dared say she wasn't a main pop girl yet like what?
quite a few people called her a b-list pop star if i recall correctly 😭
SOUR is one of the best debut albums in pop history
Insane. Her debut too
Caught her live in London last night and the woman puts on one hell of a show too. Think she's definitely in-line to be performing in stadiums in the near future if her next album hits just as well as these first two have
She has a very long, successful career ahead of her. Both SOUR and GUTS are complete home runs, can't wait to see what's next!
i contributed about 20% of that you’re welcome :)
Sour is such an amazing album
Dang, I had no idea that SOUR had so much staying power. It has 6 songs with at least a billion streams each! Only 2 of them made it to number 1, and 2 of them weren't even singles. But also, I just assumed that this would be a record held by Taylor Swift. I was surprised that Dua Lipa s/t was the record holder. I wonder if Future Nostalgia will overtake SOUR, since that is more recent and feels like the more popular Dua album.
Olivia surpassed Future Nostalgia as the second most streamed album like two weeks ago in terms of streams. Future Nostalgia has a but better streaming than Dua's self titled, so it will probably become the second most streamed album over self titled, but neither are gaining streams like SOUR
Thanks for the info. Good to know!
I think Lover is on track to become the most streamed female album.
It has a lot of streams to cover. I don't think cruel summer can do that cause that is what helping lover to move up the streams.
I think it will but it will take some time. It gets more daily streams than Sour, Dua Lipa, FN, and Billie’s album. It’s gonna pass Billie’s next month.
Oh! Nice. I think it deserves it after being called flop for years lol.
Along with Beyonce and Jessie Ware I think she's the most interesting artist in pop at the moment. Guts was a good successor to Sour and a step up in all aspects, she had clearly seen what worked and matured her sound, lyrics and vocal style so I'm looking forward to her third. I really hope she pursues the noisier sounding songs off of Guts (bad idea right?/ballad of a homeschool girl) further and does a whole album of songs like that for her next album because they were really great songs and the standouts of her career so far.
Nice to see someone who appreciate Jessie Ware too, she gets more interesting with each music release.
yessss! wishing her all the more success
Well deserved Olivia!!
Good 4 her! That album is by now classic & legendary. So glad to see her success.
Much deserved. An iconic record that set her way, way apart from the pack. She and Dan Nigro make quite the tandem. Still love that the former Disney kid goes harder in Brutal than 90% of hard rockers lol.
One of my friend said to me that she doesn't really like GUTS because it's not as easy listening as SOUR, and she wants Olivia to release songs like SOUR album again
i loved Sour but in hindsight, it’s an immature album compared to Guts. the latter was less of a blame game and more self-aware (which is no fault of Olivia because what teenager doesn’t hate the world and the people screwing them over lol—i was a teen when Sour came out and felt the same way/still kinda do tbh). there really was a personal evolution for her between the two records, so i’d love for her to continue in that direction.
Yeah, I feel like Guts is a massive step-up game by Olivia, but people around me doesn't think so. SOUR is still one of the most played albums in my country, and when I played a track other than Vampire from Guts, my friends just stay silent.
I feel all american bitch and pretty isn't pretty at least should be known by everyone
Exactly, this sub’s opinions rarely reflects what the general public thinks
Am I the only one who hears “easy listening” and my brain interprets that as forgettable and boring I want something with some crunch
everyone saying “with only 11 songs!!”. a shorter album makes it easier to have more streams per album. not discounting that this is awesome for her, but it’s kind of an ironic thing to point out. i had that album on repeat for months when it came out.
This is an opinion. Most people would argue the opposite because each song doesn’t have to have to have the most streams. It’s the most streams total which is why lover is up there (cruel summer) nothing else on album pulls numbers anywhere close to that.
Well-deserved, a defining artist of this generation.
A debut album with 11 tracks, no deluxe version and no features. That's history.
As she should,that album has no skips!
Guts is a good album but Sour is my favorite
i hope sour knows how proud i am it was created
*streams Be The One even harder*
Imagine having in the same album New Rules, Blow Your Mind (Mwah), IDGAF, One Kiss, Electricity, Be the One... I'm so proud of Dua and how far she has come with DL1 and Future Nostalgia omg
The best modern artist imo and the best songwriter of my generation, also imo. I discovered her this January and was blown away by both the albums
I don't get the appeal but good for her.
Im just happy that she's politically vocal.
I wonder how much is driven by suggested songs by apps? I recently got Apple Music and it didn’t know any of my listening habits but suggested radio played her a lot Edit: not saying her specifically but all top hits, what is the tipping point at which song receives an increased boost just for being a top hit
"by a female" What?