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Sabrina Carpenter is a popular pop artist, and her chart-topping hits prove it. Her song Espresso, labeled the Song of the Summer, reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release and hit a billion streams on Spotify on August 6, 2024, becoming the third-fastest song to do so. The 25-year-old singer started her career as a Disney child star with Hollywood Records and has since become a record-breaking artist.
She became the first female artist to hold the first and second position on the UK Singles chart for three weeks in a row with her hit singles, Espresso and Please Please Please. She recently bagged the coveted MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year.
From Disney to topping the Billboard Hot 100, Sabrina Carpenter’s musical journey explored
1) 2014 to 2016: Deal with Hollywood Records, Radio Disney Music Award and Evolution Tour, amongst others
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Sabrina Carpenter began her career on the Disney channel series, Girl Meets World which aired from 2014 to 2017. She also signed with Disney-owned Hollywood Records and released her first single, Can’t Blame a Girl For Trying in 2014.
The track was the lead single from her debut EP of the same name. The song written by Meghan Trainor, Al Anderson, and Chris Gelbuda, talks about being in love and making mistakes with lyrics like:
“Here I am again, the same old situation/ Why does the guy thing have to be so complicated?/ I should've played it cool, instead, I made a fool/ Oh, the things I do.”
The song won the Radio Disney Music Award for Best Crush Song in 2015. The Disney star released her first Christmas single, Silver Nights, in 2014.
She followed her first EP with her debut studio album, Eyes Wide Open in 2015. The pop record album featured 12 tracks including the eponymous lead track, We’ll Be Stars and Two Young Hearts amongst others. The album debuted at number 43 on the US Billboard 200 and 31 on the US Billboard Top Album Sales Chart.
In August of the same year, Sabrina Carpenter performed at the D23 Expo and in December 2015, released her second Christmas track, Christmas The Whole Year Round.
In February 2016, Carpenter released a standalone single, Smoke and Fire. The breakup song received generally positive reviews and sold over 6,000 digital copies in its first week.
In October of the same year, the then 17-year-old dropped her second studio album Evolution which debuted at number 28 on the Billboard 200.
Evolution performed better than her previous album with two tracks On Purpose and Thumbs, nominated for a Radio Disney Music Award and peaking at number one on the Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, respectively.
Sabrina Carpenter, later in 2016, embarked on her first tour, the Evolution Tour to promote the album of the same name. The tour lasted from October 2016 to May 2017 and touched cities like Nashville, Dallas, Denver, and Omaha, amongst others in North America, and Glasgow, Cologne, and Milan in Europe.
2) 2017 to 2020: De-Tour, Nylon Magazine feature, Singular Act Tour, and Forbes 30 Under 30, amongst others
In May 2017, Sabrina Carpenter collaborated with The Vamps and Mike Perry on the track, Hands. In July of the same year, she released another single titled Why.
The dark pop song received positive reviews, peaking at number 21 on the Billboard Bubbling Hot 100 and becoming her second entry on the chart after Thumbs. Carpenter also embarked on her second tour, The De-Tour, which began in Vancouver, British Columbia in July 2017 and ended in Toronto, Ontario in August 2017.
In July of the same year, Carpenter was the opening act for the Sao Paulo concert of Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman Tour.
In December 2017, Sabrina Carpenter released a cover of the Christmas classic, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. She also released other covers— Sign of the Times with Jasmine Thompson and You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch with violinist Lindsey Stirling.
In March 2018, Carpenter collaborated with English DJ, Jonas Blue on the track, Alien. The song peaked at number one on the US Dance/ Electronic Songs chart. In May of the same year, Sabrina Carpenter was included in Nylon Magazine’s 25 Gen Z’ers Changing The World. In November 2018, she released her third studio album, Singular: Act I.
Two of the album’s singles, Almost Love and Sue Me reached number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart. In March 2019, the singer’s third tour, the Singular Tour, began.
The tour promoted the Singular Act I and Singular Act II albums (Singular Act II was released in July 2019). The tour began in Orlando, Florida, in March 2019 and ended in April 2019 in Singapore.
In February 2020, the singer released a R&B track titled Honeymoon Fades. In July 2020, the rising singer released the track, Let Me Move You, for the Netflix film Work It, and in December she made it to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Hollywood and entertainment.
3) 2021 to 2024: Island Records deal, Emails I Can't Send Tour, Espresso and Please Please Please release, amongst others
In January 2021, Sabrina Carpenter inked a deal with Universal Music’s Island Records. She released her first track under the label, titled Skin, in the same month.
The song became her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, debuting at number 48. The song also reached the top 40 on the Billboard 200–another first for Carpenter.
In September 2021, she released Skinny Dipping, the lead single of her fifth studio album, Emails I Can't Send. She later released another single, Fast Times, in February 2022, preceding the full album launch in the same year.
Upon its release, Emails I Can’t Send peaked at number 23 on the Billboard 23. One of the album’s tracks, Nonsense, reached the 56th spot on the Billboard Hot 100, reached top-ten on the US Pop Airplay chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
Sabrina Carpenter’s fourth headlining tour, Emails I Can’t Send Tour, began in September 2022 in Atlanta and ended in August 2023 in Chicago. A bonus track from Emails I Can’t Send, Feathers, was released in August 2023.
The track occupied the highest position on the US Pop Songs chart and number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sabrina Carpenter was the opening act for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Melbourne, and Singapore from August 2023 to March 2024.
In November 2023, she released a Christmas EP, Fruitcake, which featured tracks like A Nonsense Christmas and Buy Me Presents. In March 2024, Sabrina Carpenter was featured on Norwegian singer-songwriter, Girl in Red’s pop track, You Need Me Now? The song peaked at number 40 on the US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart.
A Month later, she released her viral hit, Espresso, and performed at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival, the following day, April 12, 2024. Espresso topped the Billboard Global 200, ranked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won the MTV VMA for Song of the Year.
Please Please Please was released in June 2024 and became Carpenter’s second Global 200 chart-topper and the first Billboard Hot 100 topper.
After releasing her back-to-back hits, Carpenter released her sixth studio album, Short n’ Sweet, which debuted atop the Billboard 200. A third single, Taste, was released alongside Short n’ Sweet and debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This makes Sabrina Carpenter the first act since The Beatles to chart their first three top-five hits in the US in the same week and the third female artist to have three top-five songs in the top five simultaneously.
Carpenter performed What A Girl Wants alongside Christina Aguilera on the latter’s Spotify-exclusive 25th Anniversary special in September 2024.
In an interview with Who What Wear published in January 2024, Sabrina Carpenter talked about having the freedom to express herself through music and how authentic are lyrics are:
"When you’re worried about [music] appealing to people and making sure that everyone likes it, I don’t know if you make anything that feels authentic,"
Sabrina Carpenter is currently on her Short n' Sweet Tour, to promote her album of the same name, which began in September 2024, in Columbus, Ohio, and is slated to end in March 2025, in Milan, Italy.
