{"id":50349,"date":"2025-09-08T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50349\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:07:10","slug":"sabrina-carpenters-mans-best-friend-bows-at-no-1-on-billboard-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50349\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u2018Man\u2019s Best Friend\u2019 Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSabrina Carpenter<\/a> scores her second No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart as Man\u2019s Best Friend debuts atop the list dated Sept. 13. It launches with 366,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Sept. 4, according to Luminate. Of that sum, traditional album sales comprise 224,000. Both figures mark career-high weeks for the singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMan\u2019s Best Friend also collects 2025\u2019s biggest week, by units and by album sales,\u00a0for an album by a woman. It logs the third-biggest week of the year among all albums, by units and by album sales.<\/p>\n

\n\tFurther, Man\u2019s Best Friend notches Carpenter\u2019s biggest streaming week for an album, as well as 2025\u2019s biggest streaming debut for an album by a woman.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarpenter previously topped the Billboard 200<\/a> with Short n\u2019 Sweet, which also debuted at No. 1, in September 2024, and spent four nonconsecutive weeks atop the list.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 13, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s website on Sept. 9. For all chart news<\/a>, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf Man\u2019s Best Friend\u2019s 366,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 224,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart), SEA units comprise 141,000 (equaling 184.11 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 12 songs; it also debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise 1,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2025, the three largest weeks for albums, by units, are the opening frames of Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem (493,000), The Weeknd\u2019s Hurry Up Tomorrow (490,000)and Man\u2019s Best Friend (366,000). In traditional album sales, the three biggest weeks of 2025 belong to the bows of Hurry Up Tomorrow (359,000), Stray Kids\u2019 KARMA (296,000) and Man\u2019s Best Friend (224,000).<\/p>\n

\n\tMan\u2019s Best Friend\u2019s album sales were aided by its availability across 13 vinyl variants (two signed by Carpenter), four CD variants (one signed), two cassette variants, a standard digital download album and a deluxe download edition with a bonus track.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Man\u2019s Best Friend\u2019s first-week SEA units total 141,000, that equates to 184.11 million on-demand official streams of the set\u2019s 12 songs in its first week. That\u2019s the largest streaming debut for an album by a woman in 2025, as well as Carpenter\u2019s best streaming week yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tMan\u2019s Best Friend was preceded by its first single, \u201cManchild,\u201d which debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 (June 21), marking her second leader after Short n\u2019 Sweet\u2019s \u201cPlease Please Please\u201d (in June 2024).<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Man\u2019s Best Friend is the first album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 in five months, since Ariana Grande\u2019s Eternal Sunshine was No. 1 on the April 12 chart. Carpenter ends the longest wait for a No. 1 by a woman in three years. The last longer gap between No. 1 albums by a woman was the seven-month gap between the final week atop the list for Adele\u2019s 30 on the Jan. 8, 2022, chart, and the debut of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Renaissance on the Aug. 13, 2022 chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tMan\u2019s Best Friend is the lone debut in the top 10 on the latest Billboard 200. Holding at No. 2 is the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which logs its seventh nonconsecutive week in the runner-up slot (its peak), with 120,000 equivalent album units earned (down 5%). Morgan Wallen\u2019s chart-topping I\u2019m the Problem is a non-mover at No. 3 (105,000, down 10%), Stray Kids\u2019 KARMA falls 1-4 in its second week (61,000, down 80%) and Alex Warren\u2019s You\u2019ll Be Alright, Kid climbs 8-5 (38,000, down 1%).<\/p>\n

\n\tWallen\u2019s former leader One Thing at a Time jumps 10-6 with 35,000 equivalent album units earned (down 6%), Carpenter\u2019s Short n\u2019 Sweet skips 15-7 (34,000, up 17%), Gunna\u2019s The Last Wun rises 9-8 (34,000, down 11%) and SZA\u2019s chart-topping SOS ascends 12-9 (34,000, down 1%). BigXthaPlug\u2019s I Hope You\u2019re Happy falls 7-10 in its second week to close out the top 10 (30,000, down 37%).<\/p>\n

\n\tLuminate, the independent data provider to the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with\u00a0Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.<\/p>\n

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