Sabrina Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet is number one for the second week in a row. Carpenter’s album moved 156,000 units this week—a solid showing for an album in its second week. Over the past year, only Taylor Swift’s albums The Tortured Poets Department (439,000 units) and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (245,000 units), as well as Drake’s For All The Dogs (164,000 units) fared better, making Sweet the fourth-best album of 2024 in terms of second-week sales. Diving into specific metrics for Carpenter’s new album, it was streamed 168.4 million times—equivalent to 126,000 units—and sold 28,000 copies.

Post Malone’s album F-1 Trillion came in at number two with 85,000 units, while Chapel Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess is number three, with 61,000 units. Last week’s number-two album, DAYS BEFORE RODEO by Travis Scott, has moved down to number 30. There’s also two new names in the top 10 this week, starting with LE SSERAFIM, who reached number seven with 46,000 units of their EP CRAZY in its debut week, marking the girl group’s fourth album on the chart, three of which have entered the top 10. The highest LE SSERAFIM has sat on the chart so far was number six with UNFORGIVEN, but CRAZY represents their best weekly figures to date. CRAZY sold 37,000 copies, placing it at the top of the Top Album Sales chart, and racked up an additional 9,000 units through nearly 12.1 million streams. The other new entry is Destroy Lonely, entering the top 10 for the first time with his album LOVE LASTS FOREVER, which sold 37,000 copies.

Shaboozey’s single “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is once again number one, now for a ninth week. Thanks to its overwhelming radio success, backed by strong streaming figures and tons of downloads, it remains a tough nut to crack.

Sabrina Carpenter’s songs shuffled down as a group from numbers two through four last week to numbers three through five, with the songs changing their order in the process: “Espresso” from four to three, “Please Please Please” from number three to four, and “Taste” from two to five. Airplay had a greater say in her songs’ performance in their second week, where “Taste” is the top streamed song but doesn’t chart on the radio and “Espresso” is number six in streaming and number three for airplay. Having already joined the Beatles as the only other artist to have ever had their first three top-five hits chart simultaneously, she is now, by extension, also the only other artist to have had those hits stay in the top five for more than a week—still shy of the Beatles’ 1964 record, which was for five weeks—and the only solo artist ever to achieve the feat.

Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s duet “I Had Some Help,” which was number five last week, has rebounded to number two. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ own duet, “Die With A Smile,” had debuted at number three, and now sits at number six. The Gaga–Mars collab has been holding strong onto number one on the Global 200 Excl. US chart for two straight weeks now, along with ranking number two in streaming and jumping from number 36 last week to number 20 in airplay. Next week’s chart should prove to be especially revealing.

Short n’ Sweet’s runaway success has thrust more than just Sabrina Carpenter in the spotlight. Amy Allen, who helped write all 12 tracks off the album, is now number one on the Hot 100 Songwriters chart, which takes songs charting on the Hot 100 and divides points equally among all credited songwriters and producers. With an increasing number of performers trying their hand at songwriting, the chart frequently lists recording artists as well, through major songwriters—like Jack Antonoff, Dan Nigro, and FINNEAS—tend to demonstrate more staying power. Amy Allen’s first top-40 hit was Selena Gomez’s “Back To You.” Six years on, Allen finds herself credited on one of the hottest album of the year, becoming, to borrow a phrase from The New York Times, the “secret weapon” of “pop’s next gen.”

A secret weapon? Absolutely. In June 2019, Billboard introduced the Songwriters and Producers charts in a move to direct interest toward the creators involved in music production who don’t typically receive as much attention as the recording artists themselves. Since its introduction, the Songwriters chart has seen just one woman who isn’t herself a performer reach number one: Jessica Agombar, for her work on BTS’s single “Dynamite.” The women who have topped the chart so far this year are Tracy Chapman, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Billie Eilish. Chapman represents a special case here, as she charted after Luke Combs covered her song “Fast Car.”

Amy Allen has slowly but surely expanded her reach, collaborating on hits like Halsey’s number-one hit “Without Me” in 2019 and a track off Harry Styles’ Grammy-winning album Harry’s House in 2022. Her recent catapult upwards has been driven by the smash hits she’s written for next-gen pop stars, like Tate McRae’s song “greedy” and “Feather” by Sabrina Carpenter. Although her success with Short n’ Sweet sets a new high-water mark for the songwriter, Allen’s prestige had already risen significantly with the releases of “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” as singles. Just as Beyoncé’s cover of Dolly Parton’s song “Jolene” shows how you can alter a song to make it into something completely new, “Please” has now become the most crucial piece in the puzzle that proves a child-actor-turned-pop-star can completely alter the course of their career. Allen has speculated in an interview that her approach to “Please Please Please” never would’ve flown five years ago—which, by extension, means that now she actually finds it’s required. No doubt we’ll be seeing more of Allen’s name alongside the other songwriters mentioned earlier as time goes by.

Jimin’s album MUSE sits at number 86 on the Billboard 200, while the BTS member stands at number 59 on the Artist 100. His single “Who” moves up to number 28 on the Hot 100 and number 27 on Streaming Songs. The track is also at number 12 on the Global 200 and number seven on the Global Excl. US chart.

LE SSERAFIM’s EP CRAZY debuts at number seven on the Billboard 200 and tops the Top Album Sales chart, while the album’s title track debuts on the Hot 100 at number 76, representing the group’s highest position to date and marking their second entry on the chart since “EASY” went to number 99. “CRAZY” debuts at number 17 on the Global 200 and number 11 on the Global Excl. US chart, placing LE SSERAFIM highest on those charts since “EASY” sat at numbers 13 and six, respectively. The girl group also returns to the Artist 100 at number eight, just a few notches away from their previous high of number five.

Stray Kids’ EP ATE is number 58 on the Billboard 200 and number six on the Top Album Sales chart, while the group sits at number 27 on the Artist 100.

ROMANCE: UNTOLD by ENHYPEN is number 140 on the Billboard 200 and number eight for sales. The boys are number 44 on the Artist 100.

The KATSEYE EP SIS (Soft Is Strong) is number 17 for album sales and currently number four on the Heatseekers Albums chart. The group is also number four on Emerging Artists and returns to the Artist 100, this time at number 97.

Looking deeper at Emerging Artists, Red Velvet is number 24, RIIZE is 33, and NMIXX is 36. The Emerging Artists chart is calculated the same way as the Artist 100 chart, but it only includes artists who have never ranked in the top 25 of either the Hot 100 or the Billboard 200.

Finally, on the Global 200, Jung Kook’s single “Seven” (feat. Latto) rises to number 73, while “Standing Next to You” to jumps all the way up to number 143. Here’s how K-pop songs are doing on the chart overall this week: