"OLIVIA RODRIGO - DROP DEAD"

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Drop dead.

It's out now. I love this song so much. It's the first chapter in the story of

you seeing pretty sad for a girl, so in love. You guys.

And it makes me want to skip around and roll the windows down and make out, huh?

I was lucky enough to film the music video at the Palace of Versa Sillies.

What? Versa Sillies? Oh, Versa Sillies. That's not it. That's not it at all.

All right, let's get back to it. Y'all, y'all. I'll tell you nothing now.

Place of Versa Sillies a few months ago with the wonderful Peter F. Collins.

And I'm so stoked with how it turned out.

I hope you guys love it as much as I do. Exo, exo, exo.

I like this gentleman. If you don't know who that was, that was a post,

a IG post written by the one and only Olivia Rodrigo that currently has the 48th most

play project in the world with Sauer and of course the 50th most play project in the world with

guts. But guess what? You guys. That's not what we're here to focus on for that specific,

for this specific segment. As when you look at the specific single drop dead, it is all ready.

And I mean already the fifth and the drop down one slot. That means it's holding its status right

now. It's the fifth most watched music video on YouTube. Actually, fifth most watched video period

on YouTube. And the reason why I start to bring more video statistics into my coverage is because

it's because I noticed one thing. You know, not to get on my soulbox, right? But if I was a

woman artist, right? And I took very much, you know, I took heavy pride into my art. It's

about creativity. How would I feel that the video is outperforming it? Shepard.

Nah, because you know, when it comes to the actual song, y'all saying I want to watch the video

and it weren't interesting enough. Is it okay? I got my dope on me. Certain people want to make

jokes out there like it's better on mute. You guys. See, that's the problem. Yeah, I just don't

like that, man. I just don't like it. That's what I just said. I just don't like that shit, man.

So as far as women artists out here in, you know, notoriously affected the music industry,

I wonder how do they feel when the video aspect is outperforming the single? Because of course,

I believe the drop dead track is going to do phenomenal. I believe it just released. Yeah,

just came out this past Friday. I think, let me see. So Olivia Rodrigo, the drop dead track,

I know it's out, but let me see when it actually came out. I think it was this past Friday.

So the drop dead track came out, yep, this past Friday. So I don't have any future

analysts on it just yet. But of course, John, shout out to you for joining the stream. Thank you

so much. Right now, we're getting into Olivia Rodrigo. If y'all wonder, as far as people listening

on the podcast, I'm currently live on area. So that specific single drop dead is leading into

Olivia Rodrigo's album. You've seen pretty sad for a girl. So in love, what thing? But then,

you know, I'm saying, I'm like, I'm looking. So anyways, that, you know, ties back into the post,

the IG post, I read out as far as what she wrote for the single drop dead. Because when you look

at the album, it seems as if it's going to perform the same way as the past albums. Because

2021, 2021 album still being the 48th most played project in the world as far as sour. I mean,

that's a magnificent accomplishment, right? And then you look at guts, which guts came out.

I'm not talking about gut spilled that crazy album titles. I know. I'm not talking about gut spilled

that came out of 2024. I'm talking about the original guts that came out September 8, 2023.

And with that specific album, it is still the 50th most played project in the world. Shout out to

Wolf for following. I appreciate you for following. Thank you so much. Of course, when you look at

the overall aspect of Olivia Rodrigo, safe to say longevity is not a problem.

So when we're getting into longevity, not being a problem, we do have to point out that this

particular album, I feel like as well, it's going to do pretty, it's going to do well, right?

So now, I wanted to get into her first week sales. So let me see right quick.

Yeah, Rodrigo career.

All right, so I have to do some Mickey research. Of course, I'll let me have Rodrigo. Her sales

are through the roof. She's definitely, let's just say, hey, is it okay? I got my dope on me.

She's going to have a drink like effect when she drops. Now, I know what y'all saying. That's

blasphemy. But then you have to look at her last album. Literally came out of 2021. No, I'm

tripping. 2024. So a two year wait, which is still, you know, a good amount of, it's a good

distance between your last project to notoriously affected masses. Because now they miss you, right?

They miss you. They want to come back out and support you. So having a single like drop dead,

being so dramatic, after already having certain hits in your catalog, such as, uh,

trader, uh, deja vu, driver's license. Happy, uh, good for you. I think I'll remember that good

for you track is, is, I hold them now. I know that. Who I think is this the artist that be, nah,

bro, is this the artist that be making a break up anthems shepherd? Hey, man, I say she need therapy,

man. That's all I gotta say. But anyway, it is good music. And you can say that about a lot of artists.

So, um, back to what I said, that threw me completely off. So sour, they came out 2021,

had a first week debut of 295,000 guts that came out 2023, had a first week sales of, uh,

302,000. So basically what I'm saying is when this album comes out after two, uh, two-year hiatus,

when it comes out June 11th, I think, let me see who she's under. So she's under Geffen Records.

I don't know who says something. I don't know what major label that is. You see Geffen Records,

major label. Because that, that's going to tell everything. I, I need to know who a major label is.

Okay, so she's under UMG. Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, it's up. Let me wrap that up. So,

oh, yeah, so as far as Geffen Records, that's the subsidiary of UMG. If you don't know, UMG currently

has 47% and this is the closest I've ever seen a second major label get to UMG as far as Sony

having 34%, and that's because Ella Langley currently has the most played project in the world with

Dandy Line, right? So that is why Sony is so close to UMG as far as market share. The other two,

as far as Warner and others, which is like smaller labels and independent acts, um,

they're not even close. So Warner has 16% others is a whopping 3%. So I think UMG's gonna go all out

for Olivia Rodrigo. They have no reason to not go out for her, um, as far as giving her all the

marketing promotion in the world for her album that's upcoming June 11th of this year, right? So now,

I think she could end up selling, let me go back to her first week sales. Okay, so she could end up

selling around, I'm not gonna lie to you. Going from 2021 to 2023, she didn't increase by that much,

but she did increase. So she went from 295 to 302. I think we should, we could see here going from

302 to like, I think she's gonna do around 300. Honestly, uh, I don't think it's gonna be a big jump

because I'm just looking at the history of her first week sales and obviously sales isn't

everything, but we're talking about superstars. So you know, you have to start splitting hairs

as far as comparing them to the other superstars. So when you look at her first week sales,

I can see her selling the same amount as guts. I can see it being around 300,000. So I say all that,

you know, as far as building up anticipation, I was basically like, oh, no, no. Now I think she's

gonna do around the same because, you know, Drake is about to drop. That's gonna take up a certain

amount of space in the music industry. Of course, BTS is already taking up space in the music industry,

as I think they already surpassed 1 million total units. And of course, they had the biggest first

week sales of 2026, which was like 634,000. I don't think Olivia Rodrigo, you know, respectfully.

I don't think she's close to BTS level of startup. So I would say probably half of that, probably

like I could see her doing around 300,000 again, like guts did. So yeah, it really depends on

she has a hit because she had a lot of hits for guts and hours. So that's why I think it's

gonna be around the same. So anyways, I don't think, you see, it's gonna be a tour following this

album. I don't believe it's just gonna be a tour. She's probably just completely focusing on the

album, but I want to be surprised if she announces a tour right right after a right before dropping her

album. Because once again, we have some, we have quite some time. What do we mean? We have April

19th and the album doesn't come out to June. So we have a whole month. Let me see. So yeah,

we have the rest of this month. As far as April, we have the whole May and one to two weeks of June.

So yeah, we pretty much close. This is a very interesting rollout as they are hitting the,

hey, the underground running basically. They already know what they want to do with the marketing

rollout for it being so short after the announcement of the single. So that means they expect a tour,

you know, take that with a grain of salt, but she's gonna have a magnificent marketing rollout and

just be prepared to see a lot of Olivia Rodrigo marketing promotions cross-collaborations and

a foreseeable future in the near future. So that means they click my link here in my bio. Let me know

one of my social medias. What do you think about Olivia Rodrigo's latest track drop dead? And then

of course, do you believe that Rodrigo's gonna end up selling 300,000 first week? And if you don't

want to talk about numbers, what is your favorite album out of sour and guts?