the fastest since Gaga.

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/sabrina-carpenter-manchild-number-1-pop-airplay-chart-1236054668/

 

Sabrina Carpenter scores her sixth No. 1 on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart as "Manchild" rides to the top spot on the radio ranking dated Sept. 6.

 

 Carpenter has collected her six Pop Airplay No. 1s in a span of exactly one year and five months, dating to the coronation of "Feather" on the chart dated April 6, 2024. She's the first act with six leaders that quickly in more than 15 years, since Lady Gaga launched with six No. 1s over one year and two months in 2009-10, from "Just Dance," featuring Colby O'Donis, through "Telephone," featuring Beyoncé.

Meanwhile, "Manchild" is the first Pop Airplay No. 1 that Carpenter co-produced. She has co-written all six of her leaders at the format.

 

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Future legend tbh! Aren't they all solo too? 🤩 

Very impressive. She's here for the long run I think. 

 

And I have no doubt that Tears will eventually go #1 as well.

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Now thats impressive 

 

I think "Tears" might be her "Alejandro" and break the streak. It's quite racy for radio.

She is really the moment

 

22 minutes ago, D.M.F said:

Future legend tbh! Aren't they all solo too? 🤩 

Yep 

Pop radio darling, super duper impressive, oh wow, the demand is real when it comes to Miss Carpenter. She's collection Pop #1 hits as if they were pokemon cards. 

 hence why Atrl has been fuming 

2 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

 hence why Atrl has been fuming 

there favorites are not getting #1's. 

She's a threat! 

Very impressive but the hits certainly aren't as consistent as Gaga's leaders. Feather and BC are both middling hits at best with great airplay. All of Gaga's songs were genuine hits/smashes. 

39 minutes ago, MatiRod said:

I think "Tears" might be her "Alejandro" and break the streak. It's quite racy for radio.

Busy Woman didn't go #1, so the streak is technically broken.

It was harder back then. Gaga was fighting Kesha, Katy, Bruno, etc. Now all you need is for the check to clear

the new blue print for the pop girlies 

23 minutes ago, lillavend3r said:

It was harder back then. Gaga was fighting Kesha, Katy, Bruno, etc. Now all you need is for the check to clear

I don't really think that's true tbh,  however I don' tnecessarily disagre... I just think things are different now. If anything, it's harder now because there's way more competition. Back in the Gaga/Katy/Kesha/Britney era, the entry point was way higher, you basically needed a label, a contract, and a budget just to get in a studio and have a shot. Now, with social media and more accesible production tools, literally anyone can record, upload, and start building a following.

 

You've got tons of artists self-funding their debut projects, going viral off one TikTok, or carving out careers without traditional label backing.

 

On top of that, we are getting bombarded with new music 24/7 from Spotify, TikTok, YouTube, etc... People have shorter attention spans and expect constant output, like back then, it was normal for pop girls to take 2–3 years between albums and still dominate. Now fans are asking for a second single like three weeks after the first one drops.

 

So I wouldn't say it's "easier" now just because a check clears. The landscape has shifted completely, in some ways it's more democratic, but in other ways it's way more brutal because you're competing with everyone for attention.

 

Sabrina's thriving in this environment, which honestly says a lot about her star power. And you can still respect what Gaga, Katy, etc. did back then while acknowledging the game has just changed. 

 

hit after hit after hit! 

 

And some people still think she's not MPG.

Sabrina's pop #1s: 

- Feather (Mar 2024)

- Espresso (June and Jul 2024) 

- Please Please Please (Aug and Sep 2024) 

- Taste (Dec 2024 and Jan 2025) 

- Bed Chem (Mar 2025) 

- Manchild (Aug 2025) 

 

That's very impressive actually. I'm surprised that busy woman didn't do better- that sounded like such a smash. 

The way ATRL was making fun of her for espresso not going #1 on the hot 100 just a year ago and now everyone is up her ass. Complete hypocrites. 

1 hour ago, lillavend3r said:

It was harder back then. Gaga was fighting Kesha, Katy, Bruno, etc. Now all you need is for the check to clear

That's an absolute lie. Music is more fragmented and niche than ever with multiple platforms and ways to release content. It's much harder to get people's attention unlike 2008 when people were literally spoon fed pop songs on the radio. It's also commendable that she didn't give up and finally got a smash hot in her SIXTH album. She wasn't an overnight success like some people think.

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23 minutes ago, Onyxmage said:

The way ATRL was making fun of her for espresso not going #1 on the hot 100 just a year ago and now everyone is up her ass. Complete hypocrites. 

I never realized how pressed she makes Atrl until this week  

1 hour ago, ohjulia said:

I don't really think that's true tbh,  however I don' tnecessarily disagre... I just think things are different now. If anything, it's harder now because there's way more competition. Back in the Gaga/Katy/Kesha/Britney era, the entry point was way higher, you basically needed a label, a contract, and a budget just to get in a studio and have a shot. Now, with social media and more accesible production tools, literally anyone can record, upload, and start building a following.

 

You've got tons of artists self-funding their debut projects, going viral off one TikTok, or carving out careers without traditional label backing.

 

On top of that, we are getting bombarded with new music 24/7 from Spotify, TikTok, YouTube, etc... People have shorter attention spans and expect constant output, like back then, it was normal for pop girls to take 2–3 years between albums and still dominate. Now fans are asking for a second single like three weeks after the first one drops.

 

So I wouldn't say it's "easier" now just because a check clears. The landscape has shifted completely, in some ways it's more democratic, but in other ways it's way more brutal because you're competing with everyone for attention.

 

Sabrina's thriving in this environment, which honestly says a lot about her star power. And you can still respect what Gaga, Katy, etc. did back then while acknowledging the game has just changed. 

 

 

41 minutes ago, Onyxmage said:

That's an absolute lie. Music is more fragmented and niche than ever with multiple platforms and ways to release content. It's much harder to get people's attention unlike 2008 when people were literally spoon fed pop songs on the radio. It's also commendable that she didn't give up and finally got a smash hot in her SIXTH album. She wasn't an overnight success like some people think.

I didn't mean it as shade against her especifically, i love her actually. But saying it's harder to get #1 now it's simply not true. She's a success streaming wise. Radio takes forever to embrace streaming hits and artists with label push get to the top rather faster. The rise of Manchild & Bed Chem were fishy. Bed Chem reached #1 then free falled. Manchild had a somewhat organic rise stalled for a week or two and got the big spin increase the week of the album's release. And it's not just her several artists get last minute pushes to the top then free fall to make room for further singles.

Edited August 30, 2025Aug 30 by lillavend3r

19 minutes ago, lillavend3r said:

 

I didn't mean it as shade against her especifically, i love her actually. But saying it's harder to get #1 now it's simply not true. She's a success streaming wise. Radio takes forever to embrace streaming hits and artists with label push get to the top rather faster. The rise of Manchild & Bed Chem were fishy. Bed Chem reached #1 then free falled. Manchild had a somewhat organic rise stalled for a week or two and got the big spin increase the week of the album's release. And it's not just her several artists get last minute pushes to the top then free fall to make room for further singles.

No, I didn't take it as shade at all  I appreciate people having different perspectives and it's what makes music such a fascinating hobby to me. I don't think Bed Chem's run was fishy at all. Short n' Sweet came out August 23, 2024 and "Bed Chem" wasn't even pushed to radio until October 8. By that point it had already crossed 500M streams on Spotify, then passed 600M, and now it's sitting around 667M. That's a massive run for a 4th single... It was never going to do better than Espresso or Please Please Please. I guess I just see it a different way, it's really just how the current system operates. Back then, radio campaigns could drag a song up the charts for months after GP lost interest. Now, streaming shows exactly when people stop listening, which is why songs rise and fall faster. Espresso was definitely a rarity and not the norm. Gaga, Kesha and the pop girls of "that time" are still legends in my eyes, and by no means am I minimizing their success. They were able to thrive back then and are still thriving now, even as the market and industry have shifted so significantly. To me, that just shows the caliber of artists they are. Sabrina is also thriving now, surpassing expectations, and she's still so young that she has room to grow in her career and experiment with her sound.

14 minutes ago, ohjulia said:

No, I didn't take it as shade at all  I appreciate people having different perspectives and it's what makes music such a fascinating hobby to me. I don't think Bed Chem's run was fishy at all. Short n' Sweet came out August 23, 2024 and "Bed Chem" wasn't even pushed to radio until October 8. By that point it had already crossed 500M streams on Spotify, then passed 600M, and now it's sitting around 667M. That's a massive run for a 4th single... It was never going to do better than Espresso or Please Please Please. I guess I just see it a different way, it's really just how the current system operates. Back then, radio campaigns could drag a song up the charts for months after GP lost interest. Now, streaming shows exactly when people stop listening, which is why songs rise and fall faster. Espresso was definitely a rarity and not the norm. Gaga, Kesha and the pop girls of "that time" are still legends in my eyes, and by no means am I minimizing their success. They were able to thrive back then and are still thriving now, even as the market and industry have shifted so significantly. To me, that just shows the caliber of artists they are. Sabrina is also thriving now, surpassing expectations, and she's still so young that she has room to grow in her career and experiment with her sound.

Just wanted to make it clear, I don't think her radio success is solely based on label push. She definitely had her slow rise to where she is now and earned her stripes. Her songs rise quickly just by name power as well, like the current Doja single that's almost top 15 with average streams.

The way all her Pop Radio #1s are amazing - Bed Chem can go though