Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Voted Favorite New Music
Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet has topped this week’s new music ballot that options artists in numerous genres of music.
Music followers voted in a ballot revealed Friday (Aug. 23) on Billboard, selecting the 25-year-old pop star’s sixth album as their favourite new music launch of the previous week.
Short n’ Sweet introduced in practically 50% of the vote on the ballot, securing an edge forward of recent releases from Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyana and TINI (“We Pray”); Lainey Wilson (Whirlwind); Central Cee (“Billion Streams Freestyle” and “Bolide Noir”); New Radicals (“Murder on the Dancefloor” and “Lost Stars”); and others.
Carpenter’s extremely anticipated Short n’ Sweet formally arrived on Friday. The new mission options beforehand launched singles “Espresso” and her Billboard Hot 100 chart topper “Please Please Please.” Along with the album launch, she additionally dropped the thriller-inspired music video for “Taste,” starring Wednesday actress Jenna Ortega.
Short n’ Sweet follows 2021’s Emails I Can’t Send, which options hits like “Nonsense,” “Feather” and “Because I Liked a Boy.” The album peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking Carpenter’s highest-charting effort on the tally.
“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons. It was not because I’m vertically challenged. It was really like I thought about some of these relationships and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had and they affected me the most,” she instructed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the mission.
“I think about the way that I respond to situations, and sometimes it is very nice and sometimes it’s not very nice. And again, the thing about albums, projects, writing songs, it’s all moments. So harder for other people to understand that when they’re listening to something that’s going to take them through maybe a lot of years, hopefully a lot of years, is that I’m not the same person that I was when I wrote that.”
Trailing behind Carpenter on this week’s ballot is Coldplay’s team-up with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI for “We Pray,” which introduced in 30% of the vote. The British band is gearing up for the discharge of its tenth studio album, Moon Music, set for launch on Oct. 4.
See the ultimate outcomes of this week’s ballot under. Check out Billboard‘s Friday Music Guide to meet up with extra must-hear releases from this week.