The Year in Charts 2021: Olivia Rodrigo Is the Top New Artist

The Top New Artists categories ranks the best-performing new acts of the year based on activity on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100 charts, as well as Billboard Boxscore , for the 2021 tracking period.

Rodrigo’s debut album Sour spent five weeks atop the weekly Billboard 200 in June-July and launched a pair of Hot 100 No.

Thus, Rodrigo has four songs among the year-end top 40 biggest Hot 100 hits of the year – the most of any artist in 2021.

Rodrigo is also No.

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