Sour Still Sizzling

Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour is back at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a third nonconsecutive week, as the set lifts 3-1 with 88,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 8 (down 6%), according to MRC Data. The album debuted at No. 1 on the June 5 chart, led again on the July 3 tally and has yet to leave the top three in its seven weeks on the list. Only one other album in 2021 has spent its first seven weeks in the top three: Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping Dangerous: The Double Album, which held in the top three for 11 straight weeks. The last album by a woman to hang in the top three for its first seven frames was Ariana Grande’s No. 1-debuting thank u, next, which in 2019 spent eight weeks in the top three on the charts dated Feb. 23 through April 13.