Sabrina Carpenter scores her sixth No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Manchild” rides to the top spot on the radio ranking dated Sept. 6.
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The song, released on Island Records and promoted to radio by REPUBLIC, follows Carpenter’s “Bed Chem,” which ruled Pop Airplay for two weeks in March-April; “Taste” (six, December-January); “Please Please Please” (two, September 2024); “Espresso” (three, July 2024); and “Feather” (one week, April 2024).
Carpenter has now claimed Pop Airplay No. 1s from three albums. “Bed Chem,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” are all from her 2024 LP Short n’ Sweet, which became the first album to spin off at least four Pop Airplay leaders since Taylor Swift’s 1989 generated five in 2014-15. (Carpenter opened for 25 dates on Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023-24.)
“Feather” was released from the 2023 Fwd deluxe edition of Carpenter’s 2022 album Emails I Can’t Send. “Manchild” introduces Man’s Best Friend, her seventh full-length, out Friday (Aug. 29).
Carpenter has topped Pop Airplay with three songs in 2025. No other artist has more than one No. 1 in that span.
Plus, Carpenter has collected her six Pop Airplay No. 1s in a span of exactly one year and five months, dating to the coronation of “Feather” on the chart dated April 6, 2024. She’s the first act with six leaders that quickly in more than 15 years, since Lady Gaga launched with six No. 1s over one year and two months in 2009-10, from “Just Dance,” featuring Colby O’Donis, through “Telephone,” featuring Beyoncé.
Meanwhile, “Manchild” is the first Pop Airplay No. 1 that Carpenter co-produced. She has co-written all six of her leaders at the format.
The Pop Airplay chart ranks songs by weekly plays on more than 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.
All charts dated Sept. 6 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, Sept. 3 (one day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday Monday, Sept. 2).