Sabrina has debuted at number 1! Though she is no stranger to the #1 spot on many charts with her singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please”, Sabrina has just received her first number 1 album with Short n’ Sweet. The full article from Billboard can be read below.

Sabrina Carpenter achieves her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Sept. 7), as her new studio album, Short n’ Sweet, debuts atop the tally. The set earned 362,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Luminate — marking her best week ever, and the year’s third-largest debut. The set, which is also her first top 10-charting effort, was announced on June 3, and its Aug. 23 release was preceded by a pair of top three-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit songs: “Espresso” (No. 3) and “Please Please Please” (No. 1).

Carpenter’s and Scott’s debuts were both aided by social media chatter about them potentially vying for No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The two artists also had promotional help on social media from some very famous friends. Among the endorsements: Taylor Swift shouted out her former Eras Tour mate Carpenter in her Instagram story on Aug. 23, writing, “Short. Sweet. Has made an extraordinary album… Go support our girl!” Carpenter’s rumored boyfriend and “Please Please Please” video co-star, Academy Award-nominated actor Barry Keoghan, shared a link to buy the album in his own Instagram story on Aug. 29. That same day, Ye (formerly Kanye West) shared a link to buy Scott’s album in his Instagram story.

While Carpenter’s and Scott’s albums lead the top 10 action, they aren’t the only debuts in the region. Country singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson notches her first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200, as Whirlwind blows in at No. 8 in its opening week.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 7, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Wednesday, Sept. 4 (a day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday in the U.S. on Sept. 2). For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet starts with 362,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 184,000 (her biggest sales week ever and the fifth-largest sales debut of 2024), SEA units comprise 176,000 (equaling 233 million on-demand official streams of the 12 songs on the streaming edition of the album; her largest streaming week ever and the fourth-largest streaming debut of 2024) and TEA units comprise 2,000.

Short n’ Sweet also opens at No. 1 on the Streaming Albums chart.

Short n’ Sweet is Carpenter’s seventh charting album but first to reach the top 20. Her first visit to the chart came in 2015 with Eyes Wide Open, peaking at No. 43. Until this week, Carpenter’s best chart rank came with the 2022 release Emails I Can’t Send, which debuted and peaked at No. 23. The album includes “Nonsense,” which marked her first top 10-charting hit on the Pop Airplay chart. She followed it up with “Feather,” a bonus track added to a deluxe edition of Emails. “Feather” floated to No. 1 on Pop Airplay and marked her first top 40-charting song on the Hot 100.

The Short n’ Sweet campaign began brewing on the charts with its lead single, “Espresso,” which reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in June and No. 1 on Pop Airplay in July. A second single, “Please Please Please,” followed, and it hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its second week on the list in June, and tops the Sept. 7-dated Pop Airplay chart. The set’s third promoted song, “Taste,” debuts at No. 34 on the Sept. 7-dated Pop Airplay ranking.

The official music videos for “Please” and “Taste” are also starry affairs, with the former co-starring Keoghan and the latter featuring actress Jenna Ortega.

Short n’ Sweet’s sales were bolstered by its availability across nine vinyl variants, five CD editions, two cassettes and four digital album download variants. Vinyl sales combined totaled 105,000 – Carpenter’s best week on vinyl and the second-largest sales week of the year for a vinyl album. Short n’ Sweet also debuts at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart.

As for the rest of the album’s first-week sales, it sold 33,000 on CD; 45,000 digital download albums; and 2,000 cassettes.

Among Short n’ Sweet’s vinyl variants were some exclusively sold through Carpenter’s official webstore, including one variant with a bonus track, a picture disc and a signed edition. Her webstore also exclusively carried a signed CD.

There were also exclusive editions of her physical album sold through the likes of Amazon (a color vinyl and a CD with alternative packaging), Target (a color vinyl, and a CD containing a poster) and Urban Outfitters (a color vinyl).

As for its digital download variants, Short n’ Sweet was initially issued widely through digital retailers (including her webstore) as a standard 12-song album. The set did not garner additional variants until Aug. 28-29, the final days of the tracking week. Carpenter issued one variant in the evening of Aug. 28, followed by a second variant in the afternoon of Aug. 29, with a third arriving around 10 p.m. ET on Aug. 29. All were exclusively sold via her webstore for $4.99 each (the minimum price required for chart eligibility), and all contained the standard album’s 12 songs, plus one bonus track each. (The standard digital album was also discounted to $4.99 on Aug. 29 in both her webstore and in the iTunes Store.)

Of the additional variants, first came the Bonus Track Digital Album edition, with the extra song “Needless to Say”. Then the Short n’ Sweet(er) edition was second, and it came with the bonus track “Busy Woman”. The final variant was the Short n’ Sweet(est) edition with a demo recording of “Taste” as its bonus track.

The three alternative variants became unavailable to purchase on Aug. 30.

With both Short n’ Sweet and Day Before Rodeo each launching with over 360,000 equivalent album units earned, it’s the first time that two albums have earned at least 360,000 units in the same week in over eight years. It last happened on the May 14, 2016-dated chart, when Beyoncé’s Lemonade bowed at No. 1 with 653,000 and Prince’s The Very Best of Prince earned 391,000 units at No. 2 (shortly after his death). The latter title, first released in 2001, had re-entered at No. 1 the previous week.

As both Day Before Rodeo and Short n’ Sweet are debuts – the last time the chart housed two debuting titles earning at least 360,000 units came on the Dec. 5, 2015-dated chart, when Justin Bieber’s Purpose premiered with 649,000 and One Direction’s Made in the A.M. launched at No. 2 with 459,000.

Source: Billboard