Sabrina Carpenter breaks chart records with Espresso and Please Please Please

Sabrina Carpenter, the US singer behind two of this summer’s biggest songs, has broken a UK chart record, according to the Official Charts Company.

The Pennsylvania-born star is the first female artist to hold both the number one and number two spot on the singles charts for three consecutive weeks.

“Please Please Please” remained at number one on the charts this week, while her previous single “Espresso” remained at number two.

The Beatles achieved the same feat in the 1960s, when they doubled their chart position twice.

More recently, Justin Bieber spent four weeks in the top two spots in 2015, while Ed Sheeran spent five weeks on the charts twice in 2017.

Although Espresso is in second place, it actually recorded slightly more streams (7.1 million) last week than Please Please Please (7 million).

Both songs will appear on Carpenter’s upcoming album, “Short ‘n Sweet,” due out in August.

The only other female artists to hold the number one and two positions simultaneously are Madonna (1985) and Ariana Grande (2019), but Carpenter is the first to do so for three weeks in a row.

The video for “Please Please Please,” which stars Carpenter’s friend, actor Barry Keoghan, has been viewed over 44 million times on YouTube, while “Espresso” has almost twice as many views.

Also on the singles charts this week, Missouri singer Chappell Roan landed her first top-five hit after her single “Good Luck, Babe!” reached number four.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift secured her eighth consecutive week at the top of the album charts with “The Tortured Poets Department.”

The Official Charts Company confirmed that it was the best-selling album of the year so far, having amassed more than 542,000 chart units (sales and streams combined) since its release in April.

The singer’s hugely successful Eras tour continues its European leg in Amsterdam this weekend and returns to London for five more dates in August.

This week’s highest new entry came from US rock band Imagine Dragons, whose latest album “Loom” entered at number five, becoming their sixth top 10 album.

Other artists enjoyed a huge increase in sales thanks to their performances at the Glastonbury Festival last weekend.

Dua Lipa’s latest album, “Radical Optimism,” jumped from number 27 to number three after her headlining performance on Friday night, while two of her earlier albums re-entered the top 10.

Sunday headliner SZA also increased sales, with 2023 release SOS jumping 11 places to number 19.

And Shania Twain, who played the Legends slot on Sunday afternoon, was able to take her greatest hits album back into the top 40 for the first time since 2005.

The album with the hits “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, “You’re Still The One” and “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” climbed 62 places to number 29.

Coldplay’s headlining performance on Saturday helped their new song “feelslikeimfallinginlove” reach a new high of number 16 on the singles charts.