Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Beats Travis Scott By 600 Units

[stewie_e]

. @SabrinaAnnLynn's 'Short n' Sweet' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200https://t.co/KGUlI28wvb
- billboard (@billboard) September 3, 2024

A decision has finally been reached: Sabrina Carpenter won the tight race, outselling Travis Scott by a mere 600 units to earn her very first no. 1 album on the Billboard 200 Chart. It was one of the closest calls

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[genbu_no_miko24]

Nothing against Sabrina but boooooo 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅booooo!!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅

I wanted mother’s M.O. to blow up in her face!!

[juanitatequila]

i mean i would've preferred if the person going up against her to not have blood on their hands

[stewie_e]

NEGL I would have laughed if she didn't get the no. 1 after her little Nicki tweet.

But then I remember how terrible Travis Scott is and I'm like, nah it was for the best.

[hazypink]

Wasn’t Travis also using Taylor’s MO tho? Is it even her MO at the end of the day or has she just done it for the most weeks in a row or whatever? Genuinely asking, no shade, I just can’t keep up with the antics despite reading all these posts

[ky16]

To be honest it’s really UMGs MO but Taylor has by far become the most prolific and most publicly shameless as well as doing it the “most” in terms of sheer volume of variants over an extended period of time.

Variants with like different colour vinyls, deluxe editions, or alternative covers have been around for a long time. This past year UMG started the one additional song on a new variant thing then Taylor ran it to another level. I think that’s why billboard is dragging their feet chnaging the rules bc they aren’t against variants all together

[insomniachobs]

I suppose it's one of those things where it's easy to tell when somebody is miles past the line (coughTaylorcough) but difficult to draw the line itself. How do you decide that 4 is okay but not 5? How do you decide what the time limit is so you're not encouraging stupidity but also not blocking the 20th anniversary edition from charting?

[ky16]

It’s exactly that. Even swifties know Taylor’s taken it to another level which is why they switched up to defending it by saying “well if they can’t win against variants it’s their own fault”. This isn’t even the first time she’s taken advantage like this bc she was also one of the worst when it came to website remixes too.

From the labels side, I’m sure the argument is that the album plus one song/voicenote demo/“acoustic” or live song is still essentially the same album so it should count toward the album’s numbers.