world tour in 2024

Among the new generation of pop stars, she is the only one who can resist the excessive power of Taylor Swift. The numbers say what it does Olivia Rodrigo a formidable opponent for a record-breaking pop star. New album Guts, released last Friday worldwide two and a half years after its 20 million-copy debut with Sour, has racked up 626.6 million streams on Spotify in just one week, 60 of those in its first twenty-four alone of the year. hours of publication (the tenth-biggest debut on the platform for an album by a female artist): forecasts are already crowning it as one of the best sellers of the just-begun recording season.

Who is Oliver Anthony, the farmer singer topping the US charts and lashing out at US politicians?

LOUD

“This album represents the difficulties of approaching adulthood and trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life,” she says. That she was on track to repeat the runaway success of her first album – all 11 songs from the album entered the top 30 of Billboard’s Hot 100, the weekly chart of the most successful singles in the US, making Olivia the first female artist. placing eleven songs in the top thirty at the same time was already intuitive when, on July 10 last year, the single Vampire rocketed to the top of the US chart seven days after its release, making Rodrigo the first artist in history to reach number one with both lead singles from their first two albums (even Drivers License, the first from Sour, hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2021). Not only that, but Vampire’s top spot in the UK charts last week made the 20-year-old former Disney starlet the artist with the most number one singles in the UK this decade.

DISAPPOINTMENT

It’s okay that at Tuesday’s MTV Video Music Awards she managed to win only one of the six awards for which she was nominated – for best editing of the Vampire video (on stage she recreated the video for a song in which the production of one of her fake performances was destroyed fire: those who didn’t see the video thought it was a live accident) and Taylor Swift cemented her dominance with 9 awards won: Olivia Rodrigo will do it again next year. The line in “Vampire” in which he refers to a “leech” who was trying to profit from his success is said to be aimed specifically at Swift, who first allowed her to quote a passage from her “Cruel Summer” in “Déjà Vu” and then stated that she was credited with co-writing the song that caused Olivia to give up millions in income: “There’s nothing to say,” she snaps in an interview with Rolling Stone.

CALIFORNIA

The world tour, during which he will bring Guts songs to fans, begins on February 23 in Palm Springs, California. In Italy – from today, radio stations in our country will also begin broadcasting the third single from the album Get Him Back! – will arrive on June 9, 2024 at the UnipolArena in Bologna. Anti-Piracy Sale: To purchase tickets, you must register on Olivia Rodrigo’s official website (you have until Sunday), after which fans will receive a code to access the actual sale starting September 21st. The tour will be a tribute to the Filipino-born star, who grew up listening to No Doubt and Green Day in her bedroom and found success with the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark.

ROCKSTAR

The New York Times described her as a “true rock star”: if she had already brought guitars back into pop music with the songs on Sour, she raised the bar a little more with Guts. The 12 songs, from All-American Bitch to Teenage Dream, reference the alternative rock music (from Beck to the Smashing Pumpkins) and the feminist punk that Jennifer’s mother forced her to listen to as a child. Guts means “boldness” but also “courage”: “While I was writing Sour, I was a broken-hearted newbie: I would sit for hours at the piano and feel overwhelmed by what I wanted to express. With this album I focused more on the writing, avoiding taking myself too seriously and being more bold with my words.”

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