Sabrina Carpenter Tops Albums Chart With Third Biggest Debut of 2024, Beats Travis Scott in Tight Race for No. 1
variety.comThania Garcia Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” has won the race for No. 1 on the latest Billboard 200 albums chart, shutting out stiff competition from Travis Scott and his 2014 mixtape “Days Before Rodeo.” The set opens with 362,000 equivalent album units, per Luminate, as Carpenter’s highest-charting effort of her career — her first to reach the Top 20 of the albums chart.
It’s also the year’s third-largest debut overall behind Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” (debuted with 407,000 units) and Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” (2.61 million units, also the second-biggest debut of all time).
With the album available for purchase across multiple physical formats, “Short n’ Sweet’s” sales comprised 184,000 units (her biggest sales week ever and the fifth-largest sales debut of 2024) of the overall total, while the 12-song LP was streamed 233 million times.
It’s the No. 1 album on both the streaming chart and vinyl sales chart (vinyl sales combined totaled 105,000 – the second-largest sales week of the year for a vinyl album).
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