Sabrina Carpenter's “Please Please Please” climbs to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, a week after debuting at No. 2. It becomes the first chart leader for the pop singer-songwriter and actress.
The song, on Island Records and promoted to radio by Republic Records, garnered 50.9 million official streams (up 1%) – Carpenter's career-best streaming week for a song – and 3.2 million radio audience impressions (up 502%) and sold 7,000 (down 10%) in the United States in the June 14-20 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The single spends a second week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and sits at No. 7 in its second frame on Digital Song Sales. (Still rising below the Radio Songs chart.)
“Please Please Please” was released on June 7, along with its official video starring Carpenter's significant other, Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan, and she performed it during her set at New York's Governors Ball the following day. On June 18, acoustic, a cappella, instrumental, sped-up and slow-down versions of the song were released. On June 20, Carpenter announced her 29-year-old Short n' Sweet Tour, which will kick off on September 23 in Columbus, Ohio. (He opened on Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour in South America in August-November 2023 and rejoined Swift this February-March for dates in Australia and Singapore.)
The track, along with “Espresso,” at No. 4 on the Hot 100 a week after peaking at No. 3, introduces Carpenter's album Short n' Sweetwith an expiration date of August 23.
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Below is a deeper look at Carpenter's crowning and the rest of the last Hot 100's top 10.
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Carpenter's First Hot 100 No. 1
Carpenter, of Quakertown, Pa., made her Hot 100 debut in February 2021. She first reached the top 40 this February with “Feather” and entered the top 10 for the first time in April with her debut ” Espresso”.
Here's a look at Carpenter's Hot 100 history, with songs ranked by peak position:
- No. 1 (one week to date), “Please Please Please,” June 29, 2024
- No. 3, 'Espresso', 22 June 2024
- No. 21, “Feather”, April 27, 2024
- No. 48, “Skin”, February 6, 2021
- No. 56, “Nonsense”, 4 February 2023
Carpenter rules the Hot 100 a decade after she made it big on the Disney Channel Girl meets people. In addition to other television and film roles, she starred as the female lead Bad Girls for a pair of Broadway shows in 2020.
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Carpenter co-wrote her new leader
Carpenter wrote “Please Please Please” with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff, the latter of whom exclusively produced it. As Carpenter earns her first Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer, Allen adds her second after co-writing Halsey's “Without Me,” which topped the chart for two weeks in January 2019.
Antonoff lands seventh Hot 100 No. 1 as both a writer and producer. He co-wrote “We Are Young” by the band fun. for six weeks beginning in March 2012. His other No. 1s as a writer were recorded by Swift, all of which he wrote together: “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Anti-Hero,” “Cruel Summer,” “It's Over now? (Taylor Edition) [From the Vault]” and “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone. His No. 1 resume as a producer also includes Swift's “All Too Well (Taylor's Version).
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Island girl
“Please Please Please” marks Island Records' return to No. 1 on the Hot 100 after a nearly five-year hiatus. The label, which was formed in 1959, most recently led through Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's 'Senorita' for a week in August 2019.
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Three in 1
While repetition is of course a key element in musical success, with catchy hooks driving songs multiple times, “Please Please Please” is just the fourth Hot 100 No. 1 with the same word and no others have tripled in the title of. Here's a (th)re(e)cap:
- “Please Please”, Sabrina Carpenter, 2024
- “Bump, Bump, Bump”, B2K & P. Diddy, 2003
- “Bills, Bills, Bills”, Destiny's Child, 1999
- “Say Say Say”, Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, 1983
Additionally, vocals on similar but slightly more complex Hot 100 No. 1 “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty,” by KC and the Sunshine Band, and “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” by The Byrds.
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“Please,” Carpenters
“Please Please Please” is also their fourth Hot 100 No. 1 with the word “please” in its title and, coincidentally, the second with an act surnamed Carpenter, after the Carpenters – the duo of Karen and Richard. Carpenter – who sent a remake of a 1960s classic back to the top:
- “Please Please”, Sabrina Carpenter, 2024
- “Please Don't Go”, KC and the Sunshine Band, 1980
- “Mr Postman Please”, Carpenters, 1975
- “Mr Postman Please”, The Marvelettes, 1961
(Manners of speech: Along with the four No. 1s above, four songs with “thank you,” or a slight variation, in their titles have topped the Hot 100: Ariana Grande's “Thank U, Next”; “Thank God I Found You' by Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees, 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy' by John Denver and 'Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin'/'Everybody Is a Star' by Sly & The Family Stone.)
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Post Malone & Morgan Wallen lead the rest of the Top 10
Elsewhere in the Hot 100's Top 10, Post Malone's “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, falls to No. 2 after spending its first five weeks on the chart at No. 1. It tops the Songs polymetric survey of the Summer for a fourth week and Hot Country Songs for a sixth frame.
Shaboozey's “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” returns to No. 3 Hot 100 best as it earns the chart's top Airplay Gainer award (47.8 million audiences, up 23%). It also leads digital song sales for a sixth week (20,000, down 4%).
Below Carpenter's “Espresso,” Tommy Richman's “Million Dollar Baby” is at No. 5 on the Hot 100 after peaking at No. 2. It tops the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart for an eighth week and the Hot R&B /Hip-Hop Songs for a third week.
Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” is steady at No. 6 on the Hot 100 after its first week in May. It takes top Sales Gainer honors (4,000, up 28%) and dominates the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart for a sixth week.
Hozier's “Too Sweet” is steady at No. 7 on the Hot 100, after a week at No. 1 in April. It commands Radio Songs for a second week (73.5 million audiences, up 4%), while leading the Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs polymetric charts for a 12th week each and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs for an 11th week.
Benson Boone's No. 2 “Beautiful Things” returns to the Hot 100's top 10, climbing 11-8. Teddy Swims' “Lose Control,” which reigned for a week in March, rebounds 10-9. and Billie Eilish's 'Birds of a Feather' slips to No.10 from its No.9 high.
