How Big Was Sabrina Carpenter’s New No. 1 Album ‘Man’s Best Friend’? Here’s a Look at the Numbers

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Billboard breaks down her large week connected the charts.

At this point, Sabrina Carpenter is 1 of popular music’s biggest A-listers successful the 2020s. After a breakout twelvemonth successful 2024 that delivered some her archetypal No. 1 medium (Short n’ Sweet) and No. 1 opus (“Please Please Please”), she conscionable leveled up again acknowledgment to her caller album, Man’s Best Friend. The caller task doesn’t conscionable debut astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 this week, it besides posts immoderate large numbers connected the charts. Let’s dive in.

Billboard 200 Breakdown

Man’s Best Friend debuts astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 (chart dated Sept. 13) with 366,000 equivalent medium units earned successful its archetypal week, according to Luminate. That’s not lone her biggest week ever, it’s besides the third-largest of the year, down only Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem (493,000 successful May) and The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow (490,000 successful February).

The medium earns Carpenter her 2nd No. 1, following Short n’ Sweet in September 2024 — that medium debuted with 362,000 units. Here’s a look astatine her afloat Billboard 200 way grounds truthful far:

Title, Peak Date, Peak Position

Eyes Wide Open, May 2, 2015, No. 43
Evolution, Nov. 5, 2016, No. 28
Singular: Act I, Nov. 24, 2018, No. 103
Singular: Act II, Aug. 3, 2019, No. 138
Emails I Can’t Send, July 30, 2022, No. 23
Fruitcake, Dec. 21, 2024, No. 10
Short n’ Sweet, Sept. 7, 2024, No. 1
Man’s Best Friend, Sept. 13, 2025, No. 1

Vinyl was a immense contributor to Man’s Best Friend’s large archetypal week. The medium sold 160,000 copies successful vinyl unsocial — boosted by 13 antithetic vinyl variants, including 2 signed by Carpenter. That makes it the ninth-biggest vinyl income week since Luminate starting tracking income successful 1991.