Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Brief n’ Candy’ Voted Favourite New Music

Sabrina Carpenter‘s Brief n’ Candy has topped this week’s new music ballot that options artists in numerous genres of music.

Music followers voted in a ballot printed Friday (Aug. 23) on Billboard, selecting the 25-year-old pop star’s sixth album as their favourite new music launch of the previous week.

Brief n’ Candy introduced in almost 50% of the vote on the ballot, securing an edge forward of recent releases from Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyana and TINI (“We Pray”); Lainey Wilson (Whirlwind); Central Cee (“Billion Streams Freestyle” and “Bolide Noir”); New Radicals (“Homicide on the Dancefloor” and “Misplaced Stars”); and others.

Carpenter’s extremely anticipated Brief n’ Candy formally arrived on Friday. The brand new challenge options beforehand launched singles “Espresso” and her Billboard Scorching 100 chart topper “Please Please Please.” Together with the album launch, she additionally dropped the thriller-inspired music video for “Style,” starring Wednesday actress Jenna Ortega.

Brief n’ Candy follows 2021’s Emails I Can’t Ship, which options hits like “Nonsense,” “Feather” and “As a result of I Appreciated a Boy.” The album peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking Carpenter’s highest-charting effort on the tally.

“I known as it Brief n’ Candy for a number of causes. It was not as a result of I’m vertically challenged. It was actually like I considered a few of these relationships and the way a few of them had been the shortest I’ve ever had and so they affected me essentially the most,” she informed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe of the challenge.

“I take into consideration the way in which that I reply to conditions, and generally it is vitally good and generally it’s not very good. And once more, the factor about albums, initiatives, writing songs, it’s all moments. So tougher for different individuals to know that after they’re listening to one thing that’s going to take them by means of possibly plenty of years, hopefully plenty of years, is that I’m not the identical individual that I used to be after I wrote that.”

Trailing behind Carpenter on this week’s ballot is Coldplay’s team-up with Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI for “We Pray,” which introduced in 30% of the vote. The British band is gearing up for the discharge of its tenth studio album, Moon Music, set for launch on Oct. 4.

See the ultimate outcomes of this week’s ballot under. Try Billboard‘s Friday Music Information to meet up with extra must-hear releases from this week.