Olivia Rodrigo broke all records on Spotify with her hit phenomenon "Drivers license". His first album, Four, has just been released and at 18 years old, this star of young audiences will impress you!
The debut of this young pop star with Disney Channel
Olivia Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003 in California. Her parents of Filipino, German and Irish descent, enrolled her in acting and singing classes when she was just 6 years old. It was in 2015 that she made her debut in a commercial for the Old Navy brand and then in the video film Grace, the best pastry chef. But it was in 2016 that she began her career at Disney Channel, starting with her role as Paige Olvera in the sitcom Frankie and Paige for 3 seasons, then in New Girl. In February 2019, she got the lead role in the musical series High School Musical: The Musical, the series. This parody documentary is the spin-off of the iconic musical of our 2000s: High School Musical. It is with Disney, in the same way as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, that she will move from film sets to recording studios. Indeed, she composed All I Want for the series during the first season, title which will then be released as a single. But also Just for a Moment co-created with Joshua Basset. In addition to her compositions, her audience sees her cover great hits as with the cover of Breaking Free, the famous song by Troy and Gabriella in High School Musical !
How did Drivers License explode with over 17.5 million streams in just 24 hours?
This is a record for this song! More than 213 million views in 4 months for her clip on Youtube, she also holds the record for the most streams in a day (not counting Christmas songs) on Spotify on January 11, 2021, but also that of the largest number of streams in a week! The song was streamed 65,873,080 times in the week ending January 14, according to Spotify's Global Weekly Top 200. Fascinating figures that make this young woman a music superstar surpassing the biggest pop artists such as Taylor Swift and The Weekend. This buzz was also fueled with the social network TikTok, with a challenge that quickly went viral! The challenge is to take a video with a sad look and then "fall" and get up with a much more glamorous and trendy style! All over the world, users have covered the song by performing it via various videos. The tag with the title of the song made it one of the most viral titles of the moment. Today, there are 1.8 million videos with the Drivers License music on TikTok.Definitely, Olivia Rodrigo makes incredible figures on all platforms!
Love songs told by Olivia Rodrigo
Drivers License, like many of his music, deals with love stories. Her global hit is about a young girl who got her driver's license when she is just coming out of a difficult breakup. One might think that she is talking about herself, many fans have thought of a reference with her former relationship with the other icon of the High School Musical series: the series, Joshua Basset. The two stars did not provide answers but what is certain is that Olivia Rodrigo loves to sing sad songs, which her fans love just as much! In her interview with the famous newspaper The Guardian, Olivia Rodrigo opened up about why her music is about love: "I'm a teenager, I write about things that I feel really intensely – and I'm heartbroken and I feel a deep desire – and I think it's authentic and natural. It is also his personality that his fans love, very sensitive and romantic as we can see in his hits. We can also see that the titles of his music also evoke love, and more precisely on the break and this, from his first album, Sour where we can find: Brutal, Traitor, 1 step forward 3 steps back, Good 4 u, Jalousy Jalousy or Hope your ok. It is indeed this sensitivity so gentle to listen and so powerful in his writings that pleases, they are nevertheless filled with bitterness, but the vocal sweetness counterbalances everything and makes it a perfect happy medium. It is also her "teenager" character in the Disney Channel series and even through social networks that makes her a young lover, young girls necessarily identify with it , at a time when the first heartaches arise. Olivia Rodrigo knows how to place words where they need to be.
Olivia Rodrigo, a diligent and congratulated personality
This young celebrity combines home classes, filming and recording studios! Yes yes, at 18, she goes through all that. She is also waiting to enter university where she will study at the same time as she will surpass herself to write many songs as she did since her title Drivers Licensee had risen to the top of the rankings. She was also filming the second season of High School Musical: the series at the same time, which did not prevent many tracks from her new album from being in the top 50 worldwide Spotify. This young woman is breathtaking and a true source of inspiration. Big fan of Taylor Swift, the American singer recognized worldwide has publicly praised her, it is also on Instagram that the two stars have been very complicit!
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In short, Olivia Rodrigo is starting a great and beautiful career, we wish her to beat many more records and to flourish in her life as a young star! We leave you with a playlist of his new album, good listening!
