Disney star Olivia Rodrigo released her debut single “Drivers License” on January 8 – and quickly dominated the Spotify charts. announced the streaming service On Friday, the emotional pop ballad about teenage pain broke the platform’s record for most song streams in a single week.
Spotify’s global weekly Top 200 chart revealed that the song was broadcast 65,873,080 times during the week ending January 14. The song “DÁKITI” by Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez took second place in the top, and “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd reached third place.
But most streams aren’t the only Spotify record the 17-year-old’s ballad broke last week. Spotify posted on Twitter On Wednesday, the Drivers License set the platform’s record for most streams in one day for a non-holiday song on Jan. 11 and then broke its own record the next.
The song reached 13,714,177 streams on Friday, according to Spotify charts.
The song is cleaned on other streaming platforms. The ballad broke the record for “the biggest streaming debut in the first week ever globally” on Amazon Music since its release, Amazon Music posted on Twitter on Thursday. It also broke the global record for the most requested song of all time in one day on Alexa, the company said.
It is currently the most played song on Apple Music worldwide since Sunday, according to Apple.
Rodrigo started playing the piano at the age of 7, according to her bio on Interscope Records. She learned how to play the guitar shortly after playing a role in the Disney series “Bizaardvark”, which ran from 2016 to 2019.
Rodrigo is currently starring in Disney +’s “High School Musical: The Musical – The Series” and has written a song for the show’s fourth episode, according to the site. The song, entitled “All I Want”, is certified gold and has been broadcast over 200 million times, according to Interscope.