{"id":547229,"date":"2026-06-21T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/547229\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:30:12","slug":"olivia-rodrigos-you-seem-pretty-sad-bows-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/547229\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘You Seem Pretty Sad’ Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOlivia Rodrigo<\/a> achieves her third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200<\/a> chart as her third studio release, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, launches atop the list dated June 27. The set bows with 485,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending June 18, according to Luminate \u2014 marking Rodrigo\u2019s biggest week ever by units, and the largest week of 2026 for any album by a soloist.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo also topped the Billboard 200<\/a> with her two previous studio albums, GUTS (in 2023) and SOUR (2021).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new album was preceded by a pair of top five-charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100: its lead-off track \u201cdrop dead\u201d (No. 1 in May) and \u201cthe cure\u201d (No. 5 in June).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new June 27, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s website on June 23. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X and Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love\u2019s 485,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, album sales comprise 273,000 (Rodrigo\u2019s best sales week and the largest sales week for a woman in 2026; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 211,000 (equaling 218.41 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s tracks, the largest streaming week of 2026 by a woman; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album\u2019s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across more than 15 physical variants (including two signed editions). Of the album\u2019s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprised 164,000 \u2014 Rodrigo\u2019s biggest week on vinyl and the largest week of 2026 by a woman.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo will embark on The Unraveled Tour beginning on Sept. 25 in Hartford, Conn., and continuing through at least May 10, 2027, in London.<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo\u2019s new album is the only debut in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200. Drake<\/a>\u2019s ICEMAN cedes the No. 1 slot after spending its first four weeks atop the Billboard 200, as the set dips 1-2 in its fifth week on the list (105,000 equivalent album units earned, down 21%). Four former No. 1s follow ICEMAN, as Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s Dandelion falls 2-3 (84,000, down 4%), Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem is down 3-4 (78,000, down 2%), Noah Kahan<\/a>\u2019s The Great Divide slips 4-5 (71,000, up 5%) and Michael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s Thriller is a non-mover at No. 6 (53,000, down 4%).<\/p>\n

\n\tJackson\u2019s Number Ones rises a spot to No. 7 on the Billboard 200 (49,000 equivalent album units earned, down 4%), Wallen\u2019s former leader One Thing at a Time climbs 9-8 (39,000, down 4%), Olivia Dean\u2019s The Art of Loving is up a spot to No. 9 (35,000, down 1%) and BTS\u2019 chart-topping ARIRANG ascends 11-10 (34,000, down less than 1%).<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n


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