Sabrina’s not-so-short week

It’s been a big week for Sabrina Carpenter: an appearance on the enormous SNL50 Anniversary Special and the release of the deluxe version of Short n’ Sweet sends the album back up from #4 to #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. 

The album has now spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at #1 and spawned three chart-topping singles: Espresso, Please Please Please and Taste. The deluxe album includes a new version of Please Please Please featuring Dolly Parton, which sees the track (including the Dolly version) jump back up the chart from #39 to #17. It’s Dolly’s first appearance in the top 20 in 42 years: the last time was in 1983, when Islands In The Stream, her duet with Kenny Rogers, spent one week at #1.

Brisbane-born singer Mallrat debuts at #35 with Light Hit My Face Like A Straight Right. Her debut EP, Driving Music, climbed to #10 in 2019, while her first full-length studio album – Butterfly Blue – peaked at #6 in 2022. 

One spot behind, Aussie rock band Hands Like Houses are new at #36 with their fifth album, Atmospherics. They reached #7 in 2016 with Dissonants and #4 in 2018 with Anon.

Currently in the throes of his Australian tour, Drake lands at #2 with $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, his first collab album with PartyNext Door. Drake has had five #1 albums here: Views in 2016, Scorpion in 2018, Dark Lane Demo Tapes in 2020, Certified Lover Boy in 2021 and For All The Dogs in 2023. Fellow Canadian PartyNextDoor has been in the top 50 twice before with PartyNextDoor 3(#13 in 2016) and Partymobile (#22 in 2020). 

Three tracks from the new album debut in the top 50 Singles Chart, led by the solo Drake number, Nokia, at #28.

English indie rock band The Wombats are new at #12 with their seventh studio album, Oh! The Ocean. This Modern Glitchand Glitterbug reached #2 in 2011 and 2015 respectively, Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life peaked at #5 in 2018 and Fix Yourself, Not The World hit #2 in 2022. 

Topping the Singles Chart, Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us holds at #1 for a second week and is joined by two other tracks by the US star in the top 10: Luther climbs to a new peak of #2, up from #8 last week. His former #2 hit All The Stars with SZA jumps from #22 to #8. He is also at #12 with TV Off. 

In the US, Kendrick just became the first living male artist to place three albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart since Herb Alpert in 1966, Prince scored three albums in the top 10 after his death in April 2016.

Busy Woman from Sabrina’s deluxe version of Short n’ Sweet debuts at #22. It’s one of five new tracks on the deluxe version and her 14th top 50 single, all racked up in less than three years.