Sabrina Carpenter is preparing to release her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, her label announced Wednesday morning.
The 26-year-old teased the new album, out this August, on her Instagram, adding, “I can’t wait for it to be yours x.” The news comes on the heels of the pop star’s latest single, “Manchild,” which was released last week and will serve as the lead single of Man’s Best Friend. She co-wrote the song with frequent collaborators Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff.
In a cinematic video for “Manchild,” Carpenter hitchhikes across a desert landscape in everything from pickup trucks to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorcycle, all the while accompanied by the very men she’s singing about. The single — which the 26-year-old teased on X (formerly Twitter) by saying “this one’s about you!!” — was released exactly one year after her 2024 single “Please Please Please,” which became her first song to top Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Notably, Man’s Best Friend also comes just a handful of days over a year from her last studio album, Short N’ Sweet.
Carpenter took to Instagram to explain how the Man’s Best Friend lead single came to be. “I wrote ‘Manchild’ on a random Tuesday with Amy [Allen] and Jack [Antonoff] not too long after finishing Short N’ Sweet, and it ended up being the best random Tuesday of my life. Not only was it so fun to write, but this song became to me something I can look back on that will score the mental montage to the very confusing and fun young adult years of life,” she said in the social media post.
Sabrina Carpenter for “Manchild,” which will serve as the lead single off her new album, ‘Man’s Best Friend.’
Courtesy of Sabrina Carpenter
“It sounds like the song embodiment of a loving eye roll and it feels like a never ending road trip in the summer! Hence why I wanted to give it to you now — so you can stick your head out the car window and scream it all summer long!” she added, cheekily signing off with “thank you men for testing me” with a pig and heart emoji.
The pop singer’s profile exploded last summer following the release of her 2024 single “Espresso” off the album, Short N’ Sweet. The single and album earned Carpenter two Grammy Awards in February for best pop solo performance with “Espresso” and best pop vocal album; she was nominated for six awards, including best new artist, album of the year, song of the year and record of the year.
Despite not hitting No. 1, “Espresso” has been Carpenter’s best performing song by far, with more than 2.2 billion streams on Spotify. It’s spent 60 weeks on the Hot 100 chart and currently sits at No. 20.
Carpenter is slated to play a second North American leg on her Short N’ Sweet tour this fall with stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden and L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena. Man’s Best Friend will be released on Aug. 29 via Island Records.
