Sabrina Carpenter

Singer and actor Sabrina Carpenter has cultivated a reputation for her brightly effervescent, lyrically forthright strain of dance-pop. Though already familiar to audiences, she achieved worldwide summer prominence in 2024 when “Espresso” climbed to number three on the Hot 100. Leveraging her formative visibility as the lead on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, she launched a thriving recording career that included the 2016 Top 30 album EVOLution. She simultaneously sustained an acting presence, taking roles in the 2019 feature Tall Girl and the subsequent year’s Clouds. Following her Island Records contract, she released her fifth full-length, 2022’s emails i can't send, which attained number 23 on the Billboard 200 before the holiday EP Fruitcake appeared in 2023. Later in 2024 she unveiled her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet, introduced by the disco- and funk-tinged “Espresso” alongside the Hot 100 chart-topper “Please Please Please.”

Sabrina Annlyne Carpenter entered the world in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1999. Drawn to performance early, she began auditioning with her parents at age ten and secured an initial guest part on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU. Two years afterward she was chosen to portray Rowan Blanchard’s closest companion in the Disney Channel coming-of-age sitcom Girl Meets World, itself a continuation of the popular ’90s series Boy Meets World. She then signed with Hollywood Records and introduced the single “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying” in March 2014, issuing the matching debut EP the following month. Her first studio album, Eyes Wide Open, arrived in 2015 and reached number 43 on the Billboard 200. The next year brought her sophomore effort, EVOLution, which she supported with a sold-out headline tour; shortly before that album peaked at number 28, she starred in the Disney Channel’s Adventures in Babysitting.

During 2017 Carpenter joined social-media personality Jasmine Thompson for a soulful interpretation of Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times.” She also collaborated with the Vamps and Mike Perry on “Hands,” issued the standalone track “Why,” led her own The De-Tour concert series, and appeared on Lost Kings’ “First Love,” which entered the Top 30 of Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. Her first 2018 release, “Alien,” paired her with British producer and DJ Jonas Blue and rose to number 12 on that same ranking. Later she performed in the film The Hate U Give, adapted from Angie Thomas’s young-adult novel, and in November delivered her third solo album, Singular: Act I. Its companion, Act II, followed in 2019 together with the Alan Walker and Farruko collaboration “On My Way,” which reached the dance/electronic Top Ten. Before year’s end she also starred in the Netflix film Tall Girl.

In 2020 Carpenter released the Valentine’s Day single “Honeymoon Fades” shortly before making her Broadway debut as Cady Heron in Mean Girls; the engagement ended after only a few performances when theaters shuttered on March 12 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the production was later declared closed. That same year she appeared in the Netflix musical Work It and the Disney+ musical Clouds, the latter opposite Fin Argus. She next entered the studio with Captain Cuts’ Ryan McMahon, resulting in the January 2021 single “Skin,” her first release on Island Records. “Skinny Dipping” surfaced that September as the lead track from her fifth studio album, emails i can't send, which arrived in July 2022, peaked at number 23 on the Billboard 200, and yielded further singles such as the John Ryan-produced “Fast Times” and the Jason Evigan-produced “Vicious.” A cover of Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” appeared in October 2023, followed a month later by the holiday EP Fruitcake, containing original material like “A Nonsense Christmas” and a pop-inflected version of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.”

Issued in April 2024, “Espresso” became an international phenomenon, topping charts globally and entering the U.S. Top Five. Carpenter followed it two months later with “Please Please Please,” both tracks previewing her sixth studio album, 2024’s Short n' Sweet, on which she worked with producers Jack Antonoff and Julian Bunetta. The record topped the Billboard 200 and earned Grammy nominations for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.