Olivia Rodrigo Streaming Crown

Olivia Rodrigo’s *SOUR* is now Spotify’s highest-streamed album by a female artist, and Spotify’s new all-time ranking places it at No. 4 overall. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify published the all-time list on April 23, 2026, as part of its 20th-anniversary release. The company ranked Bad Bunny’s *Un Verano Sin Ti* first, followed by The Weeknd’s *Starboy*, Ed Sheeran’s *÷ (Deluxe)*, and then Rodrigo’s 2021 debut. (newsroom.spotify.com) Billboard’s report on the same Spotify list also placed *SOUR* fourth and identified Taylor Swift’s *Lover* at No. 8, making Rodrigo’s album the highest female-led title in Spotify history. (billboard.com) Third-party stream tracker Kworb listed *SOUR* at 16,955,091,442 Spotify streams as of April 21, 2026, still adding about 8.7 million streams a day. Guinness World Records had already recognized it as the female record-holder at 14.58 billion streams on April 9, 2025. (kworb.net) (guinnessworldrecords.com) That total is unusual for a catalog album released nearly five years ago, on May 21, 2021. Spotify said its anniversary rankings reflect global listening “as of April 2026,” which means *SOUR* kept climbing long after its debut cycle ended. (newsroom.spotify.com) (guinnessworldrecords.com) The album started with blockbuster numbers. Billboard reported that *SOUR* opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 295,000 equivalent album units in the United States, the biggest album week of 2021 at that point. (billboard.com) Its streaming base was built on songs that kept traveling beyond the album release. Spotify said “drivers license” was the platform’s top song of 2021 globally with more than 1.1 billion streams that year alone, and Rodrigo also landed “good 4 u” in Spotify’s year-end global top five. (newsroom.spotify.com) (musicweek.com) By May 2024, Universal’s uDiscover said *SOUR* had already become Spotify’s most-streamed album by a female artist. The same report said the album spent a full year in the Billboard 200 top 10, extending its chart life well beyond a standard debut run. (udiscovermusic.com) Spotify’s all-time top 20 albums list includes only four female-led studio albums in the top 11: *SOUR*, SZA’s *SOS*, Taylor Swift’s *Lover*, and Billie Eilish’s *WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?* Rodrigo now sits highest among them. (newsroom.spotify.com) Five years after release, *SOUR* is still posting millions of daily streams and holding a top-four spot in Spotify history. The album that opened 2021 with “drivers license” is still piling up plays in April 2026. (kworb.net) (newsroom.spotify.com)