Sabrina’s newest single, “Manchild” debuts at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart! This is Miss Carpenter’s first song to debut as number 1. Her previous hit, “Please Please Please” did spend a few weeks on top, but did not debut in that spot. Mainchild marks Sabrina’s 4th song to be on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The other songs include, “Espresso”, “Please Please Please” and “Taste”. Billboard helped share the news today (June 16) on their website. The full article can be read below.

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The song is her second leader, and first to enter at the summit.

Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” soars onto the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 1. The song is her second leader, and first to debut on top. Her “Please Please Please” spent a week atop the ranking in June 2024, rising from the runner-up spot in its second week on the chart.

“Manchild,” also Carpenter’s fourth Hot 100 top 10, introduces her next album, Man’s Best Friend, due Aug. 29. “i can’t wait for it to be yours x,” she wrote of the set on Instagram on June 11; it is scheduled to arrive just more than year since her prior LP, Short n’ Sweet, which was released Aug. 23, 2024.

Carpenter notched her first three Hot 100 top 10s from Short n’ Sweet, with “Please Please Please” preceded by the No. 3-peaking “Espresso” and followed by “Taste”, which hit No. 2. As those three songs charted in the top five together upon the debut of “Taste”, she became the second act ever to chart her first three top five hits in the region simultaneously – joining only The Beatles for the feat.

Meanwhile, Carpenter is the only woman artist with multiple Hot 100 No. 1s dating to the coronation of “Please Please Please”. She is also the only woman to reign with a nonseasonal song and with no billed collaborators in that span.

“Manchild”, on Island Records and being promoted to radio by Republic, is the 1,182nd No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 66-year history, and the 85th to debut at the summit – and the first No. 1 entrance for Island. Carpenter co-produced the song with Jack Antonoff and co-wrote it with Antonoff and Amy Allen. (The trio also co-wrote “Please Please Please,” which Antonoff produced).

“Manchild” Streams, Airplay & Sales

Released late on June 5, “Manchild” tallied 27.1 million official streams, 14 million radio airplay audience impressions and 20,000 sold in the United States June 6-12.

The track debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, where it’s Carpenter’s third leader, following “Taste” (three weeks on top) and “Please Please Please” (two). It opens at No. 3 on Digital Song Sales with 6,000 downloads sold; it also sold 14,000 copies on 7-inch vinyl, on which it was released with the exclusive instrumental B-side, “Inside of Your Head When You’ve Just Won an Argument with a Man.” (“Manchild” is the top-selling song of the week overall). As it bubbles under the Radio Songs chart, “Manchild” launches at No. 22 on Pop Airplay and No. 24 on Adult Pop Airplay.

Oh, ‘Man’ (& ‘child’)

“Manchild” is the 19th Hot 100 No. 1 with the word “man” (or a variation) in its title. Here’s a look at all such man-ly hits:

• “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter, 2025
• “Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)”, Post Malone & Swae Lee, 2019
• “When I Was Your Man”, Bruno Mars, 2013
• “When a Man Loves a Woman”, Michael Bolton, 1991
• “All the Man That I Need”, Whitney Houston, 1991
• “Because I Love You (The Postman Song)”, Stevie B, 1990
• “Man in the Mirror”, Michael Jackson, 1988
• “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)”, John Parr, 1985
• “Maneater”, Daryl Hall John Oates, 1982
• “I’m Your Boogie Man”, KC and the Sunshine Band, 1977
• “Listen to What the Man Said”, Wings, 1975
• “Please Mr. Postman”, Carpenters, 1975
• “The Candy Man”, Sammy Davis, Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation, 1972
• “Sunshine Superman”, Donovan, 1966
• “When a Man Loves a Woman”, Percy Sledge, 1966
• “Mr. Tambourine Man”, The Byrds, 1965
• “Walk Like a Man”, The 4 Seasons, 1963
• “Please Mr. Postman”, The Marvelettes, 1961
• “Travelin’ Man”, Ricky Nelson, 1961

 

“Manchild” is also the fourth Hot 100 No. 1 with “child” in its title, and the first since a rock classic 37 years ago:

• “Manchild”, Sabrina Carpenter, 2025
• “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, Guns N’ Roses, 1988
• “Hot Child in the City”, Nick Gilder, 1978
• “Love Child”, Diana Ross & The Supremes, 1968

Source: Billboard