Sour’s Sweet Start
Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album, Sour, captures the biggest week of 2021. It arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 295,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 27, according to MRC Data. It surpasses the year’s previous high, when Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) debuted at No. 1 with 291,000 units on the April 24 chart.
Sour nabs the largest week for an act’s debut charting album since the Billboard 200 switched from an album sales-only ranking to a units-based list (with the chart dated Dec. 13, 2014). It beats Cardi B’s debut studio set (and first entry), Invasion of Privacy, which opened at No. 1 on April 21, 2018, with 255,000 units.
Of Sour’s 295,000 units, 218,000…
