{"id":508412,"date":"2026-06-19T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:28:13","slug":"olivia-rodrigos-you-seem-pretty-debuts-at-no-1-on-u-k-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/508412\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018You Seem Pretty\u2019 Debuts at No. 1 on U.K. Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/olivia-rodrigo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> has earned her career-best opening week as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/olivia-rodrigo-new-album-you-seem-pretty-sad-tracks-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love<\/a> soars to No. 1 on the U.K.\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/albums-chart\/\">Official Albums Chart<\/a> (June 19).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tYou Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love flies straight to No. 1 to give the 23-year-old her third consecutive No. 1 album following Sour (2021) and Guts (2023). This week\u2019s 103,000 chart units doubles Sour\u2019s 51,000 units and Guts\u2019 60,000 units in their respective opening weeks. It is also the U.K.\u2019s biggest opening week for an international album release in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpeaking on her accomplishments to the Official Charts Company, Rodrigo said: \u201cThank you so much for this Number 1 album award! It means so much to me. I wrote so many of these songs in the U.K., so it makes it extra special. Thank you all for listening, I appreciate it so much. I can\u2019t wait to put this on my mantle!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/michael-jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s The Essential collection holds its position at No. 2, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/harry-styles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a>\u2019 Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally is up nine places on last week to No. 12. Styles kicked off his 1<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/harry-styles-setlist-wembley-stadium-best-moments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-night residency run<\/a> at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium on Friday (June 12) and performed at Meltdown Festival on Tuesday (June 16) with a set of covers and deep cuts. 2022\u2019s Harry\u2019s House (30) and 2019 LP Fine Line (34) also see bumps on the charts as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/olivia-dean\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a>\u2019s The Art of Loving holds its position at No. 4 while Embrace\u2019s Avalanche closes at No. 5, their highest position since 2018\u2019s Love Is A Basic Need. Sonny Fodera scores a maiden top 20 placement with Can We Do It All Again? At No. 20 and Zac Byran\u2019s With Heaven on Top \u00a0re-enters the top 40 (No. 40) following the U.K. leg of his stadium tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"c-logo lrv-a-unstyle-link u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-width-100p  u-max-width-100 u-height-26 u-max-width-130px@mobile-max u-margin-t-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/\" title=\"Billboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-tagline  a-font-accent-l@desktop u-font-size-1205 a-font-accent-xs@mobile-max u-font-size-15@mobile-max u-line-height-22px@mobile-max lrv-u-text-align-center@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0030@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-t-025 lrv-u-margin-a-00 u-padding-t-0125@mobile-max u-padding-b-0063@mobile-max\">Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-button lrv-u-cursor-pointer lrv-u-display-inline-flex lrv-u-background-color-brand-primary lrv-u-background-color-black:hover lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover u-padding-lr-0.875 u-padding-tb-10 lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-align-items-center a-font-basic-fancy-xs u-margin-t-0.188 u-margin-b-0188 u-margin-b-040@mobile-max\" href=\"https:\/\/preferences.mail.billboard.com\/preferences\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\tSign Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo has earned her career-best opening week as You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[13573,69751,93,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-508412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billboard-uk","tag-billboard-uk-charts","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}