Sabrina Carpenter Achieves Record-Breaking Album Debut Among Women in 2025
Sabrina Carpenter's "Man's Best Friend" Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200
Sabrina Carpenter's latest full-length project, "Man's Best Friend," has made a stunning debut, topping the Billboard 200 chart. The album, released on September 13, 2025, has sold hundreds of thousands of equivalent album units in its debut week, earning 366,000 units.
"Man's Best Friend" has the biggest debut by a woman in the United States in 2025. The streaming activity of the album equates to 184.11 million on-demand official streams of the 12 tracks, contributing 141,000 units, making it the most-streamed debut by a woman in 2025. Streaming activity accounted for 67% of the album's first-week total.
The success of "Man's Best Friend" continues Sabrina Carpenter's run on the Billboard 200, with it being her third album to debut within the top 10. Her previous album, "Short n' Sweet," spent four weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 last summer and won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
"Man's Best Friend" holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Top Streaming Albums list. The album's strong sales performance in its debut week is significantly attributed to the streaming activity.
In Germany, Carpenter's album "Emails I Can't Send" was released and holds the record for the largest sales week for a female artist's album in 2025.
"Man's Best Friend" follows "Short n' Sweet," which is still inside the top 10 this frame, holding on at No. 7. The debut of "Man's Best Friend" is the largest of Carpenter's career thus far, narrowly beating her previous best with 362,000 units from "Short n' Sweet" in 2024. It ranks third in the largest debuts of 2025, behind Morgan Wallen's "I'm the Problem" and The Weeknd's "Hurry Up Tomorrow."
With "Man's Best Friend," Sabrina Carpenter has now scored her second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, following "Short n' Sweet." The album is a testament to Carpenter's growing popularity and her ability to connect with her audience through her music.
