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Why Olivia Rodrigo’s Debut Single, “Driver’s License,” Is Making Music History · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Seacrest. If you follow popular music by now,
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Speaker 1: you've probably heard Olivia Rodrigo's Driver's License. It's transformed her
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Speaker 1: into a mainstream pop star almost overnight. It's debuted at
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Speaker 1: number one on Billboard Hot one hundred. Only forty seven
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Speaker 1: songs in chart history have started at number one. But
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Speaker 1: what makes her achievement even more impressive is that it's
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Speaker 1: her very first major release. Olivia also broke multiple streaming records,
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Speaker 1: and Amazon revealed it's now the most requested song on
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Speaker 1: Alexa ever for a single day. Granted, Olivia does already
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Speaker 1: have a media presence and fan base from her time
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Speaker 1: as a Disney star, but this kind of debut is unprecedented,
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Speaker 1: and Olivia is everywhere. Her life is forever changed, sort of.
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Speaker 1: She tells Billboard. I have always amazing opportunities now, and
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Speaker 1: so many people that I look up to have reached
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Speaker 1: out and expressed their love for the song, which is
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Speaker 1: absolutely surreal. But I'm truly just the same seventeen year
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Speaker 1: old girl doing statistics homework in my bedroom. Driver's License
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Speaker 1: is out now. That's direct from Hollywood.