Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts soars in at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts dated Sept. 23.
In the Sept. 8-14 tracking week, the singer-songwriter’s second LP earned 302,000 equivalent album units, a new personal weekly best, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 151,000 each are via album sales and streaming equivalent units.
Guts boasts the biggest week on Top Rock & Alternative Albums since the chart moved to a consumption model in 2017. It’s also the biggest week for any album since the chart became more inclusive in mid-2022 of albums with an alternative lean that aren’t necessarily core rock.
The previous biggest No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums since the list began incorporating streams and track sales into its methodology was Dave Matthews Band’s Come Tomorrow, with 292,000 units upon its June 2018 debut.
Overall, Guts has the largest week for any title on Top Rock & Alternative Albums since Coldplay’s Ghost Stories, which launched in June 2014 with 383,000 copies sold.
On Top Alternative Albums, Guts logs the fourth-biggest week since the chart began using a consumption model, following Taylor Swift’s Folklore (846,000 units; Aug. 8, 2020) and Evermore (329,000; Dec. 26, 2020) and Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (313,000; April 13, 2019).
Concurrently, as previously reported, Guts bows at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200, Rodrigo’s second ruler, following her debut collection Sour for five weeks beginning in June 2021.
Six of the new album’s 12 songs appear on the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ranking, led by “Bad Idea Right?,” which jumps 5-2 (after debuting at No. 1 on the Aug. 26 list). The track tallied 22.1 million official streams, 16.2 million radio audience impressions and 2,000 downloads sold in the U.S. Sept. 8-14. It’s followed by Guts songs at Nos. 3-6 and 8, paced by “Get Him Back!,” the chart’s top debut, with 21 million streams and 1,000 sold.
All six songs also claim the top six spots on Hot Alternative Songs, the first time in the chart’s three-year history that an artist has monopolized the top six. Post Malone and Swift both held five of the top six on Aug. 12, 2023, and Aug. 8, 2020, respectively. On the latter list, Swift swept the top three, the biggest haul from No. 1 on down until this week.
The six Guts tracks also fill out the top six of Alternative Streaming Songs, with “Bad Idea Right?” at No. 1. That’s likewise a record over the list’s three years of existence, besting five of six achieved by both Eilish (Aug. 14, 2021) and Swift (Aug. 8, 2020, and Dec. 26, 2020).
Finally, three songs from the new set rank on Alternative Digital Song Sales, led by “Get Him Back!” at No. 5.
