Sabrina Carpenter Achieves Her First No. 1 Album with ‘Short n’ Sweet’ – Hollywood Life

Sabrina Carpenter has made fairly an impression.

On Tuesday, Billboard introduced that the pop singer’s newest launch, Brief N’ Candy, had debuted at No. 1 on this week’s chart, with all 12 of its songs showing on the Billboard Scorching 100.

This accomplishment marks the 25-year-old’s first No. 1 album of her profession. The opening week additionally noticed three of Carpenter’s tracks touchdown within the chart’s high 5, making her considered one of solely three girls — alongside Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande — to chart at the least three songs within the high 5 concurrently, in accordance with Billboard.

Carpenter’s sixth studio LP debuted with 362,000 items, in accordance with the monitoring service Luminate, edging out rapper Travis Scott’s re-released 10-year-old mixtape Days Earlier than Rodeo, which bought 361,000 items. It was additionally the third-best opening week of the yr, behind Swift’s Tortured Poets Division with 2.61 million equal album items and Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter with 407,000 equal album items.

Carpenter’s recognition has surged considerably since she opened for the folklore artist on the Eras Tour and has turn into one of many greatest rising pop acts since Olivia Rodrigo, particularly with her hit “Espresso,” launched in April. The one, stuffed with intelligent wordplay and catchy melodies, unlocked a brand new degree of stardom for Carpenter, adopted by one other infectious observe, “Please Please Please,” which turned her first No. 1 on the Scorching 100.

In a June 17 interview with Rolling Stone, “Please Please Please” collaborator Jack Antonoff—who additionally produced half of her album Brief N’ Candy—praised her method to pop music.

“The way she puts things, I’m immediately right there with her,” he mentioned. “And for anyone who’s gotten to see her live, let alone record her, she’s an unbelievable singer. When you’re in the presence of that kind of voice, all you want to do is capture it.”

Carpenter—who has been releasing music for a decade—generated excessive anticipation for the Brief N’ Candy launch by sharing a snippet of ‘Taste’ on Instagram the day earlier than it dropped. The music video, that includes a playful but gory, blood-soaked theme, starred Jenna Ortega and included a kiss between the 2 former Disney Channel stars.