It could be an understatement to say that 2024 has been the 12 months of Sabrina Carpenter. The previous Disney Channel (Woman Meets World) baby star’s sixth studio album, Brief N’ Candy, simply gave the singer her first-ever Billboard 200 No. 1 album when it debuted on the prime of the tally on the chart dated Sept. 17.
That lofty peak got here after pre-release singles “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” hit, respectively, No. 3 and No. 1 on the the Billboard Sizzling 100 singles chart, with the latter representing Carpenter’s first chart-topping single. How did the 25-year-old born in Quakerton, PA go from posting movies of herself singing songs by Adele and Christina Aguilera as a homeschooled fifth grader to dominating the charts?
The story begins 13 years in the past when Carpenter landed the primary in a collection of small TV roles that finally landed her a gig within the Disney Channel’s Woman Meets World taking part in Maya Hart, a task she reprised within the spin-off Boy Meets World. Throughout her run on Woman, Carpenter scored her Billboard chart debut in 2014 on the Children Digital Tune Gross sales chart with the present’s theme music, “Take On the World,” which she sang alongside co-star Rowan Blanchard.
After signing with Disney’s Hollywood Data, Carpenter launched her debut EP, Can’t Blame a Woman For Making an attempt, which spawned the only of the identical identify, co-written by Meghan Trainor. The singer then made her Billboard 200 chart debut in April 2015 together with her first full-length album, Eyes Huge Open, which peaked at No. 43.
Her second album, Evolution, adopted in October 2016, peaking at No. 28 on the 200 album chart and spawning her first radio hit, “Thumbs,” which topped out at No. 28 on the Pop Airplay chart. Her third album, November 2018’s Singular: Act I, featured the singles “Nearly Love” and “Sue Me,” and was adopted by its second half, Singular: Act II, in July 2019.
After leaving Hollywood Data for Island Data in 2021, Carpenter launched her first single for her new label dwelling, “Pores and skin,” which landed the star’s first Sizzling 100 charting music when it debuted at No. 48. Her 2022 follow-up LP, Emails I Can’t Ship, turned her highest-charting album so far, peaking at No. 23 on the 200 tally and scoring her first No. 1 on the Pop Airplay chart with a music she co-wrote, “Feather,” which additionally peaked at No. 21 on the Sizzling 100.
All of that was a lot to brag about, however 2024 is the 12 months that Carpenter blew up in a significant means. She kicked issues off by reserving two main gigs: first, opening for Taylor Swift on some South American dates of the pop famous person’s Eras Tour in 2023 and once more in early 2024 in Australia and Singapore after which performing a memorable set on the Coachella Pageant in April of this 12 months.
However when she unleashed the bubbly “Espresso” on followers in April, the tune she co-wrote blew up and immediately turned her signature hit and an inescapable meme on its method to the No. 3 slot on the Sizzling 100. The music catapulted the singer to a brand new profession peak, which was rapidly supplanted by her first Sizzling 100 No. 1, “Please Please Please,” whose accompanying steamy video co-starred real-life boyfriend actor Barry Keoghan (Saltburn). With the discharge of her No. 1 Brief N’ Candy album, Carpenter has cemented her spot as a fixture on the Billboard charts.
Watch Billboard Explains: Sabrina Carpenter’s Candy Success on the charts within the video above.
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