fun trivia: Olivia's 1981 hit "Physical" is the biggest,most successful song of the entire 80s decade.It spent 10 weeks at Number One.The song was originally offered to a few other artists (Rod Stewart,Tina Turner) who turned it down.

SoulAlive said:

fun trivia: Olivia's 1981 hit "Physical" is the biggest,most successful song of the entire 80s decade.It spent 10 weeks at Number One.The song was originally offered to a few other artists (Rod Stewart,Tina Turner) who turned it down.

I had heard and read about that too. It was because Olivia had the same manager/representation as Tina at the time and it was passed to her. Also something people should know about Olivia was her taking MCA to court in 1978 over albums owed and promotion, back in the day the contracts signed specified how many albums and how many a year you had to do in some cases. Olivia had a four album deal, which was only two years, she had to do two a year BUT if she was late the label could force her into staying longer after the two years. What happened was as she was working on GREASE she was delayed from delivering an album and the label wanted to hold on to her obviously because she had this huge fame bigger than even her hits prior, so they went to court, and what transpired from this was after this ALL contracts stated ONLY how many albums you owe no time frame, so if you sign for ten albums, you are not going anywhere till we get ten. Some may think her old deal was crazy but thats what was pretty universal for deals. Harry Chapin who was signed around the same time as her in 1971, him being with Elektra, he was in a bidding war, they won and got him for eight years eight albums, it was at the time one of the biggest deals because labels were very into the singer songwriter at the time.

Her streaming is up 614% since her death.

TrivialPursuit said:

Her streaming is up 614% since her death.

Her very first album is getting a deluxe issue on cd and vinyl on September 9th I have heard that vinyl advance orders have already pushed this to back order. Physical also got a color vinyl issue this already happened but the pressed more, so glad I purchased the deluxe physical release on CD that had two discs, and a 3rd dvd. It quickly has disappeared and already folks cashing in on it at ebay