Sabrina Carpenter” Please Please Please”
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Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’ Becomes Her First Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The song ascends from No. 2 in its second week on the survey.
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week after it debuted at No. 2. It becomes the first leader on the list for the pop singer-songwriter and actress.
The song, on Island Records and promoted to radio by Republic Corps, drew 50.9 million official streams (up 1%) – Carpenter’s best career streaming week for a song – and 3.2 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 502%) and sold 7,000 (down 10%) in the United States in the June 14-20 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The single spends a second week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and holds at No. 7 in its second frame on Digital Song Sales. (It’s as yet bubbling under the Radio Songs chart.)
“Please Please Please” was released June 7, alongside its official video starring Carpenter’s significant other, Oscar-nominated Barry Keoghan, and she performed it during her set at New York’s Governors Ball the following day. On June 18, acoustic, a cappella, instrumental, sped-up and slowed-down versions of the song were released. On June 20, Carpenter announced her 29-date Short n’ Sweet Tour, set to start Sept. 23 in Columbus, Ohio. (She opened on the South American run of Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in August-November 2023 and rejoined Swift this February-March for dates in Australia and Singapore.)
The track, along with “Espresso,” at No. 4 on the Hot 100 a week after reaching No. 3, introduces Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet, due Aug. 23.
Carpenter’s First Hot 100 No. 1
Carpenter, from Quakertown, Pa., first hit the Hot 100 in February 2021. She initially reached the top 40 this February with “Feather” and first entered the top 10 in April upon the debut of “Espresso.”
Here’s a look at Carpenter’s Hot 100 history, with songs ranked by peak position:
No. 1 (one week to date), “Please Please Please,” June 29, 2024
No. 3, “Espresso,” June 22, 2024
No. 21, “Feather,” April 27, 2024
No. 48, “Skin,” Feb. 6, 2021
No. 56, “Nonsense,” Feb. 4, 2023
Carpenter Co-Wrote Her New Leader
Carpenter wrote “Please Please Please” with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff, the latter of whom solely produced it. As Carpenter earns her first Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer, Allen adds her second, after she co-penned Halsey’s “Without Me,” which led for two weeks in January 2019.
Antonoff achieves his seventh Hot 100 No. 1 as both a a singularly billed writer and producer. He first led as a co-writer of “We Are Young” by his former band fun. (which as a group co-produced the song) for six weeks beginning in March 2012. His other No. 1s as a writer were recorded by Swift, all of which he co-wrote: “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Anti-Hero,” “Cruel Summer,” “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) [From the Vault]” and “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone. His résumé of No. 1s as a producer also includes Swift’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version).”
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