Last week, the singer Olivia Rodrigo walked into the White House with the No. 1 album in the country. This week, having made her pitch to get young people vaccinated, she is still on top.
“Sour,” the debut album by the 18-year-old pop star and actress, earned its fourth week at No. 1 since its release in May — and its first back-to-back performance atop the Billboard 200 — thanks in part to a slow week of releases. No new album appears in the Top 10 for the first time in two months, according to Billboard, after a flurry of major releases seemed to signal a return for the music business following a year and a half of pandemic strictures.
The numbers for “Sour” were down slightly from last week, with the equivalent of 83,000 in sales — including 102 million streams — according to MRC Data, Billboard’s tracking arm. A first album by a woman has not topped the chart for four weeks since “I Dreamed a Dream” by Susan Boyle of “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2009 and 2010, Billboard said.