This week’s race for the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart was as heated as it gets, but Sabrina Carpenter managed to come on top. Short n’ Sweet became her first album No. 1 album after beating Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo by just 1,000 album units to claim the top spot.
It’s pretty rare to see the Billboard 200 results delayed, but that’s exactly what happened this week, with Carpenter and Scott going neck to neck until the last minute. Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet eventually debuted at No. 1 with 362,000 equivalent album units, just 1,000 units ahead of Scott’s Days Before Rodeo with a little over 361,000 equivalent album units.
Carpenter managed to score the third-largest week for an album in 2024, behind Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. Short n’ Sweet is her first album to hit No. 1 in the U.S., in addition to topping the charts in the UK, Australia, and beyond.
Carpenter also hit No. 2, 3, and 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week with “Taste”, “Espresso”, and “Please Please Please”, joining The Beatles as the only artist to chart her first three top five hits simultaneously. She previously made history as the first female artist to simultaneously score the No. 1 album and single in the UK, where “Taste” hit the top spot this week.
