Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Manchild” has debuted atop Billboard’s Hot 100, the publication confirmed Monday, marking Carpenter’s second chart-topping song in her career.
“Manchild,” the lead single off Carpenter’s upcoming seventh album Man’s Best Friend, debuted with 27.1 million streams, per Billboard, while it sold 20,000 units. It dethroned rising Atlantic act Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which had spent the past two weeks atop the Hot 100. The number one opening comes almost exactly a year after Carpenter landed her first number one last June with “Please Please Please.”
The hot start is a positive sign as Carpenter looks to lock in the song of the summer for another year, after her breakthrough hit “Espresso” became one of the biggest songs of 2024. Elsewhere on the songs chart, Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s “What I Want” fell to No. 3, and Wallen’s “Just in Case” came in fourth. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which spent 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 this year, rounded out the Top Five this week.
En route to her latest No. 1, Carpenter had picked up some controversy online for the recently revealed album artwork on Man’s Best Friend, along with for her Rolling Stone cover, where she posed naked except for a pair of lace white stockings. In that cover story, Carpenter addressed critique about sexualization in her music.
“It’s always so funny to me when people complain. They’re like, ‘All she does is sing about this.’ But those are the songs that you’ve made popular,” Carpenter told the magazine. “Clearly you love sex. You’re obsessed with it. It’s in my show. There’s so many more moments than the ‘Juno’ positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can’t control that.”
On the album’s side, Wallen locked in a fourth consecutive week at No. 1 for I’m The Problem, staving off Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter VI, which debuted at No. 2 this week with about 108,000 units. K-Pop group Enhyphen’s Desire: Unleash debuted at No. 3, while TikTok influencer turned pop star Addison’s debut album Addison took fourth.
