Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’ rebounds to #1 on Billboard 200 for 4th week
After two weeks out of the top spot, Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Short n’ Sweet” boomeranged back to number-one on the Billboard 200 albums chart for a fourth nonconsecutive week for the tracking week that ended October 3. It achieved 100,000 equivalent album units based on its combined traditional album sales, individual track sales, and online streaming performance. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.
“Short n’ Sweet” has been out for six weeks and achieved six-figure album units for all of those weeks, showing impressively stable popularity, especially on streaming platforms where the album racked up the lion’s share of its units. Repeating at number-two was Chappell Roan‘s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” with 63,000 units. Last week’s chart topper, Future‘s “Mixtape Pluto,” dropped to number-three with 55,000 units. Morgan Wallen‘s indefatigable “One Thing at a Time” moved up a spot to number-four with 50,000 units. And Billie Eilish‘s “Hit Me Hard and Soft” jumped three spots to number-five with just under 50,000 units.
In our weekly Billboard 200 predictions contest, most game players correctly predicted that “Short n’ Sweet” would make a return trip to the summit. And yet we underestimated it, predicting the number-one album would achieve fewer than 100,000 album units. Our consensus was also right that “Midwest Princess” would hold on to number-two. But only eight people anticipated “Mixtape Pluto” at number-three. Eight people also foresaw “One Thing at a Time” in the number-four spot. But nobody saw “Hit Me Hard and Soft” coming at number-five. Despite some tough calls, one of our game players managed to correctly answer five out of six prediction questions correctly this week. How did you do? Find out here.