Julia Rodrigo

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Chapter 1: Who is Julia Rodrigo

Julia Rodrigo is a pop, pop rock, teen pop singer who was born July 27, 200 . At 21 years old, Julia was on her way to great heights as she signed with DNA Productions with her manager Dan Nigro. On August 30th, 2021 she released her record breaking debut single to the industry “build a boy”. Build a boy is a pop ballad that was the first lead single to her album "Bitches W Broken Hearts". The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the most streams and sales ever for a first week in North America, it was also at the top of the charts for a consecutive 6 weeks becoming the highest selling song in the US in 2021. After "build a boy" had a total reign of 32 weeks of charting. Julia Rodrigo was destined to prove that she was here to stay as a pop crown holder as she released her second lead off her album on January 31st, 2022 titled "Y U Gotta Be Like That'' the song was a commercial success debuting at #8 and next week reaching its highest peak #7. It failed to become a Top Ten hit in the US but Julia still remained the hottest new pop singer.
 

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Chapter 2: Scratching The Surface

Julia went onto try a new and improved sound, on April 18th, 2022 Julia released her final lead off her album called "Misery 4 U" with a pop and punk infused sound this became Julia 2nd ever #1 debut and stayed #1 for a non consecutive 9 weeks (with only 7 weeks being consecutive) while the week after those following weeks the song fell to #2 only to return back to its peak a week later and reign casually at the top of the charts for 2 weeks. This song became the highest selling single in 2022 and the most streamed with 1.6B streams in a year.
 

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Chapter 3: Stardom
2 months after the smash hit "Misery 4 U''. Julia Rodrigo album "bitches w brokenhearts" was released on October 24th, 2022. The album generated 83,404 first week and lasted 7 consecutive weeks at the top of the BB Hot 200 debuting a #1 making it Julia's first ever project to peak and debut #1. In within it's sixth week at the top of the US Billboard Hot 200 it became the highest selling #1 album with 134,284 copies sold within that week. This album had no collaborations and was produced by Dr.Dre. It also became the 2nd highest selling album of 2022 closing out the year with a "Best Pop Album" Grammy. While the success was flooding in Julia wrote songs for her sophomore album later titled "Naked". Julia wanted to show that she wasnt in a sad place in her career by making a sexual and smooth R&B and pop infused project with features from Ariana Grande, The Weekend, Frank Ocean, Shawn Mendes, and lastly Bruno Mars