Sabrina Carpenter albums and songs sales

Disney Channel star actress Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter, 25, has been seen on TV for a dozen of years. She has been issuing music for just as long. After a quartet of unnoticed albums, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send was her first successful era thanks to hits Nonsense and Feather.

It was still the calm before the storm that was coming with 2024’s Espresso and Please Please Please. The album Short n’ Sweet is now smashing charts all around the world. We review her charts and sales achievements.

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Sabrina Carpenter Albums Sales

Figures listed in this section reflect pure sales of long playing formats, either albums, compilations or videos. Streams are excluded.

Please note that Sabrina Carpenter released a couple of EPs as well. Early days Can’t Blame A Girl For Trying from 2014 sold 7,500 units, while 2023’s Christmas release Fruitcake did 12,500.

Updated studio album sales & comments

From Eyes Wide Open to Emails I Can’t Send, pure sales of Sabrina Carpenter were very modest. It had to be expected, with pure sales dying and coming from an older public, the teenage TV star had next to no chance to do well.

The latter managed to hold, and continues to do so, climbing its tally to a still modest 75,000 sales.

Short n’ Sweet is a game changer. In a single week, it shifted 315,000 units globally. After such a start, it may go for a million during the upcoming months.

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Sabrina Carpenter songs sales

Below, we list down results from the artist through physical sales, digital sales and streaming.

Please be aware that when the artist is regarded as the lead act, they are rewarded with 100% of these units. However, featured acts share a 50% piece of the total.

Physical singles

From her very first recordings in 2011 to 2022 included, Sabrina Carpenter never issued a physical single. This is a typical situation for an artist who debuted in the iTunes era.

As her fanbase started to build lately, recent hits did get vinyl and then also CD and cassette releases. Nonsense, Feather, Espresso, and Please Please Please combine for 38,000 sales in these formats.

Digital songs

The debut album had no less than 4 songs topping 100,000 sales in the US, and adding for over 650,000 global sales. Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying was the top performer at 240,000. Also early in her career, she came close to 300,000 units with Take On the World, a duet with Rowan Blanchard, the theme song for their TV show Girl Meets World.

Thumbs from Evolution became her strongest seller to date, albeit with average numbers. It sold over 340,000 unit.

Why from Singular: Act I was the next one to sell in 6 digits. As her success increased, the market collapsed, so fairly bigger hits like Nonsense and Feather weren’t able to do as well.

Despite these worsening market conditions, Espresso was just so big that it did go over 150,000 units, and continues to pull over 5,000 per week. Please Please Please is reaching 100,000 very soon too.

All in all, Sabrina Carpenter has sold 3 million downloads.

Streaming

Streaming is made up of both audio and video streams. Our CSPC methodology includes both formats to better reflect the real popularity of each track.

The main source of data for each avenue is Spotify and YouTube, respectively. To factor in the growing impact of multiple Asian countries where these platforms aren’t always the go-to site for music streaming, more sources have been added.

In order to account for their real popularity in each relevant country, the below sources have been used along with the mentioned ratios that reflect the market share of each area.

Audio Streams
– South Korea: Genie streams * 2.20 (consistent with Gaon streaming numbers)
– Japan: AWA streams * 100 / 4 (AWA has 4% of the Japanese streaming market)
– Arabic world: Anghami streams
– Sub-Saharan Africa: Boomplay + Audiomack streams
– Elsewhere: Spotify streams * Spotify market shares based on artists’ market distribution

Video Streams
– China* : QQ video streams * 50 if the song is available for audio stream, QQ video streams * 5 elseway (scale built based on known figures for several major artists)
– Elsewhere : Youtube views increased by 10% to account for various local platforms

*since Chinese streaming platforms are mostly video streaming platforms, their streams are weighted on par with YouTube streams.

Audio Stream value – 1,500 plays equal 1 album unit
Video Stream value – 6,750 views equal 1 album unit

Equivalent Albums Sales (EAS) = ( Spotify * ArtistRatio + Genie * 2.20 + AWA * 100 / 4 + Anghami + Boomplay + Audiomack ) / 1500 + ( QQ views* 50(or 5) + YouTube * 1.1 ) / 6750

Top hits

Nonsense, Feather and On My Way, an Alan Walker led track, slowly but surely gather sizable streams. Together, these songs have recorded 2.3 billion streams on Spotify and 1.8 billion views on YouTube.

The latter is far and away the leader on Asian platforms, and also on YouTube thanks to Asian fans, thanks to the legendary status of the Norwegian DJ in this region.

Still, Espresso has been so huge since its release only a few months ago that it took over the first place already. With 1.4 million EAS from streams, it’s still climbing very fast.

Please Please Please will become its runner up soon, itself on 800,000 after less than three months. In just a week, Taste has made it to the top 20.

As we speak, although not for long, Emails I Can’t Send remains the biggest album overall with over 3 million EAS.

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Sabrina Carpenter CSPC Results

So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each album achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!

Albums CSPC results

In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

• Studio Album: sales of the original album
• Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
• Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
• Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
• Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Artist career totals

See where the artist ranks among remaining singers

Eyes Wide Open, Evolution, Singular: Act I and Singular: Act II manage to crack half a million units apiece, which reveals a moderate but stable success.

Up to date data reveal that Emails I Can’t Send has been bigger than one can expect. It’s past 3 million sales, thanks to heavy streaming numbers. Main single Nonsense is on its way to top 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Then, after only one week, plus pre-release units from its singles, Short n’ Sweet has already sold more than her first four albums, and nearly as much as her biggest era so far Emails I Can’t Send. Results are even wilder on pure sales, with Short n’ Sweet topping her previous career to date total in its first frame.

Obviously, this is just a start especially as new single Taste is already smashing as hard as its predecessors. With at least three guaranteed hits, the album seems poised to become a 10-million seller in the long run.

This will increase significantly her career total. For now, Sabrina Carpenter stands at 11.3 million equivalent albums sold.

Singles CSPC results

The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.

Discography results

Thanks to our new ASR (Artist Success Rating) concept, we know that sales represent 6.22 million times the purchase of entire discography. Coupled with total sales, it translates into an ASR score of 34.

The ranking of all artists studied so far is available too at this link.

Records & Achievements

• Sabrina Carpenter is the first and only female artist ever to chart at 1-2-3 on UK’s single chart (with Taste, Please Please Please and Espresso on August 30, 2024).
• With 362,000 units on its opening week, Short n’ Sweet recorded the 3rd highest non-Taylor Swift female debut of the 2020s in the US.
• In France, Sabrina Carpenter opened at #1 with Short n’ Sweet despite never entering the top 200 with her previous albums.

NB: EAS means Equivalent Album Sales.

Dynamic Spotify key performance indicators

Please note that numbers below are retrieved automatically, so they will evolve day by day unlike previously listed data which is valid as of the publication date of the article.

Sources: IFPI, Spotify, YouTube, Discogs, Billboard.

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