Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Becomes 1st Album With 4 Pop Airplay No. 1s Since Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’

“Bed Chem” follows “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” to the top.

Mar 21, 2025 - 16:02

Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ Becomes 1st Album With 4 Pop Airplay No. 1s Since Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’

Sabrina Carpenter claims her fifth No. 1 on Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart as “Bed Chem” cozies up to the top spot on the radio ranking dated March 20.

The song, released on Island Records and promoted to radio by REPUBLIC, follows Carpenter’s “Taste,” which ruled Pop Airplay for six weeks in December-January; “Please Please Please” (two weeks, September); “Espresso” (three weeks, July); and “Feather” (one week, April).

With “Bed Chem,” “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso” all from Carpenter’s 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, the set becomes the first to spin off at least four Pop Airplay No. 1s in nearly a decade — since Taylor Swift’s 1989 generated five in 2014-15. (Carpenter opened for 25 dates on Swift’s The Eras Tour in 2023-24.)

Since the Pop Airplay chart originated in 1992, a select five albums have yielded four or more No. 1 singles each. Here’s a recap.

Albums With 4 or More No. 1s on Billboard’s Pop Airplay Chart:

Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet, four: “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” “Taste,” “Bed Chem” (2024-25)
Taylor Swift, 1989, five: “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” (feat. Kendrick Lamar), “Wildest Dreams” (2014-15)
Katy Perry, Teenage Dream, six: “California Gurls” (feat. Snoop Dogg), “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.” (feat. Kanye West), “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” “The One That Got Away” (2010-12) (*The album’s The Complete Confection reissue generated an additional No. 1, “Wide Awake.”)
Lady Gaga, The Fame, four: “Just Dance” (feat. Colby O’Donis), “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” “Paparazzi” (2009)
Justin Timberlake, FutureSex/LoveSounds, four: “SexyBack,” “My Love” (feat. T.I.), “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” “Summer Love” (2006-07)

“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons,” Carpenter mused to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe ahead of the album’s release. “It was not because I’m vertically challenged [“5 feet, to be exact,” she confirms in “Taste”]. It was really, like, I thought about some of [my] relationships, and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had, and they affected me the most.”

Meanwhile, Carpenter has collected all her Pop Airplay No. 1s in her five most recent trips up the chart. She links the longest streak of leaders since Swift’s five from 1989 in 2014-15. The longest uninterrupted runs of No. 1s — six each — belong to Katy Perry with her haul from Teenage Dream, and Lady Gaga, whose four from The Fame were followed by two in 2010: “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” (featuring Beyoncé).

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 March 29 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 25.