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Short n’ Sweet, the new studio album by former Disney Channel star Sabrina Carpenter, has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with all 12 of its songs on the Billboard Hot 100.
Carpenter’s sixth studio album had sales of 362,000 in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate, the third-best opening week of the year behind Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. Short n’ Sweet marks Carpenter’s first time at No. 1 on the chart, edging out rapper Travis Scott’s re-released Days Before Rodeo, which marked sales of 361,000.
The opening week (Aug. 23-29) also saw three of the Carpenter album’s tracks landing in the chart’s top five, a feat achieved by only two women previously (Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande) and just seven previous artists overall: In addition to Swift and Grande, the other acts to place three songs in the top five simultaneously are The Beatles, 50 Cent, Justin Bieber, Drake and 21 Savage.
Also noteworthy: With three of the album’s songs – “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” – in the chart’s upper reaches, Carpenter becomes only the second act to ever chart her first three top five hits simultaneously. That puts her on the same turf as The Beatles, who charted with “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You” and “Please Please Me” on March 7, 1964.
The #1 album’s 12 songs and their positions on the chart, according to Billboard, are:
No. 2, “Taste”
No. 3, “Please Please Please” (up from No. 9; spent one week at No. 1, becoming Carpenter’s first Hot 100 leader, in June)
No. 4, “Espresso” (up from No. 7; peaked at No. 3 in June)
No. 14, “Bed Chem”
No. 15, “Good Graces”
No. 21, “Sharpest Tool”
No. 22, “Juno”
No. 26, “Coincidence”
No. 27, “Slim Pickins”
No. 32, “Dumb & Poetic”
No. 35, “Don’t Smile”
No. 41, “Lie to Girls”
