Melissa Kacar

Olivia Rodrigo has continued to be such a unique force in the streaming era of music. As of May 2026, Olivia has surpassed a billion streams on Spotify for nine different songs, making her one of the top artists on the platform. For an artist that has debuted just under five years ago and has only released two (soon to be three) albums, that is a monumental accomplishment. Several of these tracks have even surpassed the rare two billion stream mark too - for someone with a catalog of currently about thirty songs total, the scale of her impact is major. Since her debut in 2021 with her first single, "drivers license" , Olivia has been a defining voice of her generation and one of the artists most responsible for shaping the sound of this decade. Very few have made an impact as seismic and immediate as she has. In fact, she became the first artist in history to debut her first three singles - "drivers license", "deja vu" , and "good 4 u" - in the ...

Following the announcement that Taylor Swift has officially purchased the master recordings of her first six albums, a pursuit widely publicized since 2019, her journey to reclaim her music has reached a defining milestone. This moment, along with the path she took to get here, marks a significant turning point in Taylor's career. She has been very vocal about re-recording her first six albums as a way to reclaim ownership of her early work after the rights to the original master recordings were sold by Big Machine Records CEO Scott Borchetta to Scooter Braun and his company, Ithica Holdings in 2019 for $300 million. In a 2019 letter, Taylor says she was never given the option to buy the rights back to her albums, and the masters being sold to Scooter Braun was her "worst case scenario". She continued by saying, "This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term 'loyalty' is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that ...