Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Manchild” has debuted atop Billboard’s Sizzling 100, the publication confirmed Monday, marking Carpenter’s second chart-topping music in her profession.
“Manchild,” the lead single off Carpenter’s upcoming seventh album Man’s Greatest Good friend, debuted with 27.1 million streams, per Billboard, whereas it bought 20,000 items. It dethroned rising Atlantic act Alex Warren’s “Strange,” which had spent the previous two weeks atop the Sizzling 100. The primary opening comes virtually precisely a yr after Carpenter landed her first primary final June with “Please Please Please.”
The new begin is a optimistic signal as Carpenter seems to lock within the music of the summer time for an additional yr, after her breakthrough hit “Espresso” grew to become one of many largest songs of 2024. Elsewhere on the songs chart, Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s “What I Need” fell to No. 3, and Wallen’s “Simply in Case” got here in fourth. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which spent 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 this yr, rounded out the Prime 5 this week.
En path to her newest No. 1, Carpenter had picked up some controversy on-line for the lately revealed album paintings on Man’s Greatest Good friend, together with for her Rolling Stone cowl, the place she posed bare aside from a pair of lace white stockings. In that cowl story, Carpenter addressed critique about sexualization in her music.
“It’s all the time so humorous to me when folks complain. They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this.’ However these are the songs that you just’ve made standard,” Carpenter instructed the journal. “Clearly you like intercourse. You’re obsessive about it. It’s in my present. There’s so many extra moments than the ‘Juno’ positions, however these are those you publish each night time and touch upon. I can’t management that.”
On the album’s aspect, Wallen locked in a fourth consecutive week at No. 1 for I’m The Downside, staving off Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter VI, which debuted at No. 2 this week with about 108,000 items. Ok-Pop group Enhyphen’s Want: Unleash debuted at No. 3, whereas TikTok influencer turned pop star Addison’s debut album Addison took fourth.