Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 hit “deja vu” has surpassed two billion streams on Spotify. It’s the pop star’s fourth track to attain the milestone, becoming a member of “driver’s license,” “traitor,” and “good 4 u.”
The observe as much as Rodrigo’s record-breaking debut single “driver’s license,” “deja vu” was recorded in 2020 and launched on April 1st, 2021. Like “driver’s license,” the track was written by Rodrigo and Dan Nigro—the 2 accomplished the monitor over the course of a single day in August 2020. After its launch, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and St. Vincent additionally acquired writing credit for the monitor’s interpolation of Swift’s 2019 track “Cruel Summer.”
Upon its launch, “deja vu” debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Scorching 100, making Rodrigo the primary artist in historical past to debut their first two solo singles inside the chart’s high 10. The monitor is at the moment licensed 4x platinum by the RIAA. A music video for the monitor, directed by Allie Avital and starring Rodrigo and Talia Ryder, premiered alongside the monitor. It has since garnered practically 550 million views on YouTube.
Talking to the inspiration behind the monitor in 2021, Rodrigo informed Folks: “I get déjà vu all the time. So I thought it would be a cool play on words to use déjà vu as a metaphor for this very universal thing that happens when you break up with someone and they get with somebody else, and see them living the life that you lived.”
Rodrigo launched her most up-to-date album, GUTS, in 2023—she launched a deluxe version with 4 extra tracks, GUTS (spilled), in 2024. In assist of the album, she launched into a world tour which prolonged into 2025. A documentary on the tour premiered on Netflix in late 2024. At this yr’s Glastonbury Pageant within the UK, Rodrigo was additionally one of many headlining acts, and invited The Treatment’s Robert Smith onstage for a rendition of the band’s “Just Like Heaven.”
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