Her new album launches as her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Sabrina Carpenter’s new studio album, Short n’ Sweet, blasts in atop the Billboard 200 (dated Sept. 7), while all 12 songs from the set hit the Billboard Hot 100.
The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 362,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States its opening week (Aug. 23-29), according to Luminate. Carpenter earns her first career leader, which opens with the third-largest debut, by units, of 2024.
Concurrently, all 12 songs on Short n’ Sweet land on the Hot 100, including three in the top five and 11 in the top 40. Here’s a recap (with all songs debuts except where noted):
- No. 2, “Taste”
- No. 3, “Please Please Please” (up from No. 9; spent one week at No. 1, becoming Carpenter’s
- first Hot 100 leader, in June)
- No. 4, “Espresso” (up from No. 7; peaked at No. 3 in June)
- No. 14, “Bed Chem”
- No. 15, “Good Graces”
- No. 21, “Sharpest Tool”
- No. 22, “Juno”
- No. 26, “Coincidence”
- No. 27, “Slim Pickins”
- No. 32, “Dumb & Poetic”
- No. 35, “Don’t Smile”
- No. 41, “Lie to Girls”
Carpenter becomes just the third woman to chart at least three songs in the Hot 100’s top five simultaneously, after Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande. The only other acts to log at least three entries in the top five simultaneously are The Beatles, 50 Cent, Justin Bieber, Drake and 21 Savage.
As “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” mark Carpenter’s first three top five Hot 100 hits, she becomes only the second act to ever chart her first three top five hits in the region simultaneously. She joins only The Beatles, who first tripled up on the chart dated March 7, 1964, with “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You” and “Please Please Me” at Nos. 1, 2 and 4, respectively.
With 10 debuts, Carpenter ups her count to 15 career Hot 100 entries. Along with “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” she previously charted with “Feather” (No. 21 peak in April), “Nonsense” (No. 56, 2023) and “Skin” (No. 48, 2021).
Plus, with 13 Hot 100 entries in 2024, Carpenter ties Grande for the third-most among women, after Swift (36; the most among all acts) and Beyoncé (23).
