Sabrina Carpenter formally has her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
On Tuesday, Billboard introduced that the 25-year-old singer’s newest launch, Brief N’ Candy, had debuted at No. 1 on this week’s chart. The accomplishment marks Carpenter’s first No. 1 album of her profession.
Carpenter’s newest single “Style” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, along with her pre-release singles “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” snagging the third and fourth spots. She joins Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande as the one girls to chart not less than three songs on the chart’s prime 5 concurrently, in line with Billboard.
The 12-track album had the yr’s third-best opening week, in line with Billboard, with 362,000 equal album models. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division (2.61 million equal album models) and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter (407,000 equal album models) maintain the No. 1 and No. 2 spot, respectively.
Brief N’ Candy had been extremely anticipated forward of its launch. Carpenter shared a snippet of “Style” through Instagram the day earlier than its launch utilizing the social media platform’s newest replace that enables customers so as to add a track to their profile.
The “Style” music video made fairly a splash on-line. The clever but gory music video kicks off with a content material warning earlier than exhibiting Carpenter selecting from an assortment of weapons, hauntingly singing “Rock-a-bye child, cosy in your mattress / Proper now you might be sleeping / And shortly you’ll be… lifeless.” The pop star then takes a second to use lipstick within the reflection of a giant knife.
All through the delightfully campy video, Carpenter and Jenna Ortega, fairly actually, battle to the loss of life over what seems to be Ortega’s present boyfriend and Carpenter’s ex. A refrain of “Heard you’re again collectively and if that’s true / You’ll simply must style me when he’s kissing you” set the scene whereas the 2 younger starlets attempt to take one another out utilizing shotguns, knives, chainsaws, voodoo dolls and extra.
Carpenter and Ortega even share a kiss within the video, resulting in the loss of life of the boyfriend. The duo, wearing all black, stand in entrance of his casket, earlier than ultimately strolling off collectively as friends, laughing and ingesting milkshakes.
The 25-year-old singer scored her first No. 1 single on the Billboard Scorching 100 in June with the viral monitor “Please Please Please,” which serves as Brief n’ Candy‘s second single. The primary single, “Espresso,” has been on the chart for 20 weeks, having peaked at No. 2 earlier in the summertime.
Carpenter can also be anticipated to carry out on the upcoming MTV VMAs, which have moved to Sept. 11 from its beforehand introduced Sept. 10 air date. The transfer is an effort to forestall the award present from airing concurrently the upcoming presidential debate.
The pop star’s sold-out Brief n’ Candy Tour will kick off this fall in Columbus, Ohio. Los Angeles would be the North American tour’s final cease, with a present on the Crypto.com Enviornment on Nov. 15 and two reveals on the Kia Discussion board on Nov. 17 and 18.