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Reporter Lee Jae-hoon = American pop star Olivia Rodrigo, a ‘Generation Z icon’ who has won three Grammys, releases a new full-length album in two years and four months.
According to music distributor Universal Music on the 29th, Rodrigo will release his second regular album ‘GUTS’ on September 8th.
Prior to the release of the album, the pre-release single ‘vampire’, which is a b-side song, will be released on the music platform on the 30th. I collaborated with Dan Nigro, the producer of Rodrigo’s debut album ‘SOUR’. Nigro is a star producer who worked together on Rodrigo’s representative songs ‘drivers licenses’ and ‘good 4 u’. At the ’64th Grammy Awards’ last year, he and Rodrigo received the category of ‘Best Pop Vocal Album’.
About this album, Rodrido foreshadowed, “For me, this album is about growing pains and trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life.”
Shortly after the release of his debut single ‘Driver’s License’ released in January 2021, Rodrigo took first place on Billboard’s main single chart ‘Hot 100’ for 8 weeks in a row and became a ‘monster rookie’. His debut album ‘Sour’, released in May of the same year, topped the Billboard main album chart ‘Billboard 200’. The b-side song ‘Good For You’ also reached the top of the ‘Hot 100’.
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In particular, Rodrigo is an artist who decorated 2021. ‘Driver’s License’ holds the record for the most streamed song in 2021. “Sour” also surpassed 5 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the most streamed album of 2021.
Rodrigo won three crowns at the ’64th Grammy Awards’ and established himself as a trending artist. He won the ‘Best New Artist’ category, one of the four main awards, as well as the ‘Best Pop Solo Performance’ and ‘Best Pop Vocal Album’ categories.
In addition, it swept awards ceremonies around the world. At the Billboard Music Awards, she won seven awards, including ‘Top Female Artist’, ‘Top Hot 100 Artist’ and ‘Top New Artist’. At the American Music Awards, she was named ‘New Artist of the Year’. At the Apple Music Awards, she won three crowns, including ‘Breakthrough Artist of the Year’, and at the Brit Awards, she won ‘International Song of the Year’ for ‘Good For You’. .