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Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ Notches Fourth Week Atop Billboard 200
Olivia Rodrigo’s *you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love* returned to No. 1 on the US Billboard 200, giving it a fourth nonconsecutive week at the top. It has remained in the chart’s top five throughout its 21 weeks, while Michael Jackson’s *Thriller* made a major Halloween-season jump to No. 2, its highest position in more than 40 years.
Rodrigo’s album earned 57,000 equivalent album units in the week ending 5 November, down 10% and the smallest weekly total for a No. 1 album in more than a year. *Thriller* rose from No. 13 with 55,000 units, up 89%, including 22,000 sales; 19,000 were vinyl purchases, its largest vinyl sales week since tracking began in 1991. New top 10 entries included ILLIT’s *BREAK EVEN* at No. 6, BigXthaPlug’s *Better Over Time* at No. 7 and Queens of the Stone Age’s *Perfecth* at No. 10.
In short
- Rodrigo returned to No. 1 for a fourth week.
- *Thriller* climbed to No. 2 with 55,000 units.
- *Thriller* sold 19,000 vinyl copies in one week.