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Olivia Rodrigo Holds Billboard 200 No. 1 for Second Week After Career-Best Debut

Olivia Rodrigo Holds Billboard 200 No. 1 a Second Week
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Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week, following a 485,000-unit debut that ranks as the largest week of 2026 for any solo artist and Rodrigo’s career best.

Olivia Rodrigo Extends Her Billboard 200 Reign Into a Second Week

On the latest Billboard 200, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love earned 180,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate figures reported by Billboard, a total that stands as the biggest second week for a female artist in 2026. The hold, down from the opening 485,000 units, kept Olivia Rodrigo ahead of Drake’s ICEMAN at No. 2. Streaming again carried the frame, with the album drawing more than 137 million on-demand streams. Released June 12 via Geffen Records, the album is Rodrigo’s second to lead the chart for more than one week; her 2021 debut SOUR ruled for five weeks, while GUTS spent one week on top in 2023.

The Debut Week Reset Olivia Rodrigo’s Commercial Ceiling

The second-week hold followed an opening that reset Olivia Rodrigo’s own benchmarks. The 485,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending June 18 marked her largest week by that measure and the biggest of 2026 for any album by a soloist, per Luminate. Pure album sales accounted for 273,000 of that total, Rodrigo’s strongest sales week and the largest sales week for a woman in 2026. Streaming equivalent albums contributed 211,000 units, representing roughly 218.41 million on-demand official U.S. streams, the largest streaming week of 2026 by a woman. Physical demand drove much of the figure: the album shipped in more than 15 variants, including two signed editions, and vinyl alone accounted for 164,000 sales, Rodrigo’s biggest week for the format.

Three Albums, Three No. 1 Debuts Place Olivia Rodrigo in Rare Company

The chart-topping run extends a pattern that has defined Olivia Rodrigo’s catalog. Each of her three studio albums has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and produced at least one Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single. SOUR arrived alongside “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U” in 2021, GUTS with “Vampire” in 2023, and You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love with “Drop Dead,” which opened atop the Hot 100 in May as the first of four top-10 entries from the set. Billboard noted the sequence places Rodrigo alongside Beyoncé as one of the few acts to open a career with three consecutive studio albums that each led the Billboard 200 and yielded a Hot 100 chart-topper. All 13 tracks on the album also landed inside the top 30 of the Hot 100 during its debut frame, underscoring the release’s streaming breadth.

International Charts Mirror the U.S. Performance

Olivia Rodrigo’s second week at No. 1 was not confined to the United States. The album secured a second consecutive week atop both the U.K. Official Albums Chart and Australia’s ARIA Albums Chart. Its U.K. debut of 103,000 chart units, per Billboard, was the biggest opening week for an international album in Britain in 2026 and more than doubled the first-week U.K. totals of SOUR (51,000) and GUTS (60,000).

The Unraveled Tour Gives the Album a Live Runway

The commercial momentum arrives ahead of a touring cycle that gives the release a runway well into 2027. Olivia Rodrigo will open The Unraveled Tour on Sept. 25, 2026, in Hartford, Connecticut, with dates currently routed through at least May 10, 2027, in London. The schedule positions the album’s singles for sustained live exposure long after the chart peak, a pattern that has helped Rodrigo’s earlier records linger on the Billboard 200 for years rather than months.

With a second week at No. 1 built on the largest solo debut of 2026, Olivia Rodrigo has turned You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love into the strongest commercial statement of her career to date.

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