Olivia Rodrigo set to score Official Chart Double with debut album SOUR
Olivia Rodrigo is set to go straight to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart with her debut album SOUR.
Leading today’s Official Albums Chart Update (May 24), SOUR is already 7,500 chart sales ahead of its closest competition, and the most-streamed album of the week so far.
If the album stays on track Olivia could also be set to score the coveted Official Chart Double, as her latest single from the collection, Good 4 U, sits at Number 1 on the latest Official Singles Chart update.
At Number 2 at the midweek point, Gary Numan’s 22nd studio album Intruder could become his seventh total Top 5 album, including Tubeway Army’s 1979 Number 1 Replicas. Intruder is currently the biggest physical release of the week so far. Gary will join this week’s Record Club with Bowers & Wilkins livestream to talk all about the collection.
Elsewhere in this all-new midweek Top 5, Twenty One Pilots are on track for their third Top 10 with Scaled And Icy (3) while Pink’s concert film companion album All I Know So far: Setlist (4) is the most downloaded release of the week so far. The star’s 2010 Greatest Hits… So Far!!! Could also make a Top 40 return, currently up 28 places at 39.
MORE: The Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2021 so far
Rounding off the Top 5 is My Bloody Valentine, with their 1991 album Loveless (5) thanks to a full catalogue reissue which dropped on CD and vinyl on May 21. The band’s other two studio albums also feature in the midweek Top 10; their 1988 debut Isn’t Anything (8) and 2013’s MBV (10).
Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys starts at Number 7 with latest solo effort Seeking New Gods, while American pop-rock band Waterparks’ fourth album Greatest Hits could land a Top 20 debut at Number 14.
Finally, Bristol-based musician Penfriend – real name Laura Kidd – is at Number 36 at the halfway point with her first album under the moniker, Exotic Monsters.
This week's Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 in full
View the Official Singles Chart Update Top 100 here
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Drewmor Has It...
liv haters are some of the saddest people these days
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
tell me about it, i have to put up with one of these haters on a daily basis... 😭
Joshua Sombra
Not Olivia Rodrigo having an Official Chart Double. I don't really think her album is that good considering it is her debut album but I still don't like it. You guys are not going to change my opinion on her.
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Louise
No I agree, it's rubbish. Someone is pulling some string behind the scenes. She's not good enough to be this successful. You're not the only one that thinks that.
IB
Ivan Balja
well at least someone agrees with me! this girl is so overrated!
Drewmor Has It...
3 nasty boomers above me
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Louise
Wow, payola strikes again. Daddy and Mummy must be a rich couple, buying her all these number one hits. I can write better songs than the stuff on her album.
Insonio Insone
so why didnt you?
Küll
Loveless is a masterpiece.
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
GO ON OLIVIA!!! ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!
afrog
bit of an overreaction to one of the worst albums of the year
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It’s like a 5-6/10, it’s not that bad. 😭
🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜
this comments an overreaction too.
afrog
wtf how
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I’m surprised the gap isn’t bigger to be honest. :O
Good to see all 3 My Valentine albums in Top 10, didn’t think the reissues would do that well.
Alfred Lock
Never underestimate the Indie old school crowd with one of the sonic Wall of sound influences that is My Valentine..I vaguely remember them I the early 90s when watching MTV'S 120 MINUTES show.
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So true, they’re a great band. :)