Olivia Rodrigo becomes the youngest solo artist to score UK chart double
Olivia Rodrigo has become the youngest solo artist to top both the UK singles and album chart at the same time.
The 18-year-old's debut album Sour enjoyed the biggest opening week of 2021, setting a streaming record.
It attracted the highest number of streams for a debut album in its opening week, overtaking previous record holder Lewis Capaldi.
Meanwhile, her single Good 4 U is the year's biggest number one, notching up 117,000 chart sales across seven days.
That figure includes 13.5 million streams, according to The Official Charts Company, who called the US singer "the year's biggest breakthrough artist".
Rodrigo's debut single Drivers License topped the UK charts in January.
That song broke Spotify's record for the most streams in one day, peaking at 17 million streams on 12 January.
Sour's 51,000 sales - including streams, sales and downloads - make it the biggest opening week for a debut album in two years, since Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent in May 2019.
Rodrigo's album achieved 45.7 million streams of individual tracks over the past seven days (30,945 streaming-equivalent sales), the Official Charts Company said.
She is also the first artist for six years to top both charts on the release of their debut album. The last was Sam Smith in 2015 with the album In The Lonely Hour and single Lay Me Down.
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