Sabrina Carpenter takes fourth No. 1 advertising billboard‘s pop airplay chart (all earned in 2024), “Taste” topped the December 21 radio rankings.
Released on Island Records and promoted to radio stations by Republic, the song follows Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” which led pop airplay for two weeks in September. “Espresso” (three weeks in July); and “Feather” (one week in April).
Carpenter, along with Doja Cat and Lady Gaga, had four pop chart toppers within a year of the chart’s launch in 1992. Doja Cat dominates 2022, starring in Post Malone’s “I Like You (A Happier Song).” In 2009, Gaga dominated with “Just Dance” (starring Colby O’Donez), “Poker Face,” “Love Games” and “Paparazzi.”
Carpenter this year and Gaga in 2009 are the only two artists to have four No. 1 pop hits in one year, all of them starring roles.
Meanwhile, “Taste” is Carpenter’s third No. 1 pop song on the record short and sweet. The album, released in August, is the first since Selena Gomez’s album to spawn at least three Pop Airplay leaders. revival In 2016, this was the tenth time in the history of the ranking that this feat was achieved.
Albums with 3 or more No. 1 pop songs:
artist, album, number one, year
- Sabrina Carpenter, short and sweet: “Espresso”, “Please please please”, “Taste” (2024)
- selena gomez, revival: “Good for You” (feat. A$AP Rocky), “Same Old Love”, “Hands to Myself” (2015-16)
- justin bieber, Purpose: “What do you mean?”, “I’m sorry”, “Love yourself” (2015-16)
- Maroon 5, overexposed: “Payphone” (feat. Wiz Khalifa), “One More Night”, “Daylight” (2012-13)
- katy perry, teenage dream: “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream”, “Fireworks”, “ET” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night Lights” (TGIF), “The One That” Get Away” (2010-12) (*album’s complete dessert The re-release produced an additional number one, “Wide Awake”.
- Lady Gaga, reputation: “Just Dance” (feat. Kirby Ordonis), “Poker Face”, “Love Game”, “Paparazzi” (2009)
- Justin Timberlake, Future sex/love sounds: “SexyBack”, “My Love” (feat. TI), “What Goes around…Comes around”, “Summer Love” (2006-07)
- Avril Lavigne, let go: “Complex”, “Sk8er Boi”, “I’m with You” (2002-03)
- Alanis Morissette, Jagged little pill: “Satire”, “You Got It”, “Heads in Feet” (1996)
- base ace, logo: “Everything She Wanted”, “Mark”, “Don’t Turn Around” (1993-94)
“I call it short and sweet For a lot of reasons,” Carpenter mused to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe ahead of the album’s release. “It’s not because I’m vertically challenged [‘5 feet, to be exact,’ per ‘Taste’]. It’s really, like, I thought about something [my] Relationships, and some of them were some of the shortest I have ever experienced, but had the greatest impact on me.
All charts for December 21st will be updated on Billboard.com on Tuesday, December 17th.
