For those of you waiting in line for “Espresso” to snatch her Billboard crown, you have stay in line for another week at least. Sabrina Carpenter’s follow-up to her song about working late ’cause she’s a singer has been blocked on the charts by her own follow-up track, “Please Please Please,” notching the pop girl her very first career No. 1 on the Billboard “Hot 100.” Carpenter’s chart-topper earned 50.9 million streams, 3.2 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 7,000 sales, rising that one crucial slot from last week’s No. 2 chart position. With a music video for “Please Please Please” starring the singer’s real-life boyfriend, the actor Barry Keoghan, silly little lyrics about begging her man to act right, and instant virality, it’s no wonder the song climbed the Billboard summit.
“Espresso,” on the other hand, has had a tougher time reaching the peak. Though it’s charted for six weeks, wormed its way into people’s verbal tics, and made it into song-of-summer conversations, the song has only hit No. 3 on the ranking, sitting at a solid No. 4 this week. With two songs in the top ten at the same time, it’d be hard to argue that Carpenter doesn’t Mountain Dew it for us.
