Sabrina Carpenter has secured the biggest opening of the week of 2025 on Friday for international artist with her latest album Man’s Best Friend after she hit back at at critics of her oversexualised image.
The Espresso hitmaker, 26, is officially dominating the top place of the Official Albums Chart with her seventh studio album, according to BBC Radio 1.
Man’s Best Friend – which eclipses the year’s previous best – even tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the most popular record of the week on wax, shifting 85,500 units in its first seven days.
This marks one of three Sabrina records in this week’s Top 40.
The stunning record comes after the American singer alleged the ‘older generation’ are hypocritical in their stance on sex.
The pop star candidly unveiled the thought process behind the sexually-charged material on her latest album.
Sabrina Carpenter, 26, secured the biggest opening of the week of 2025 for international artist with her latest album Man’s Best Friend after she hit back at at critics of her oversexualised image
The Espresso hitmaker is officially dominating the top place of the Official Albums Chart with her seventh studio album, according to BBC Radio 1 (pictured album cover)
She has been criticised for her racy lyrics in the past by trolls whom she recently dismissed as ‘pearl-clutchers’, while also hitting out at the older generation for ‘getting offended’ despite ‘having sex many times’.
The platinum blonde songstress has teased her fans: ‘You can be sure that anything I do and say has a little bit of a wink to it.’
While discussing the saucier side of her music, she said: ‘I mean, there’s a lot of nuance to this and I’m not naïve to that, but I felt like: “Why is this taboo?”‘
She explained to Interview this week: ‘This is something that women experience in such a real way, becoming comfortable with themselves and who they are.
While chatting with the magazine’s editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg, who used to be Rihanna‘s stylist, Sabrina told him that ‘I’m glad you like my sexual content.’
When Mel revealed that he ‘can be either dominant or submissive,’ Sabrina divulged: ‘I sort of feel the same way. I mean, this is on a completely different subject, but I do feel like submission is both dominant and submissive.’
She added: ‘It really depends on what your intentions are and what you want, and what you crave, and what you need. The image, the way I see it, is a metaphor, but I’m sure that other people are like: “Dang, she’s a sub?”‘
The sultry lyrics on the new album include the chorus of Tears, in which she sings: ‘I get wet at the thought of you being a responsible guy, treating me like you’re supposed to do. Tears run down my thighs.’
Man’s Best Friend even tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, the most popular record of the week on wax, shifting 85,500 units in its first seven days (pictured at Met Gala in May 2025)
It comes after the American singer alleged the ‘older generation’ are hypocritical in their stance on sex as she told Interview this week
On another track, she wishes her ex ‘a lifetime of happiness and a forever of never getting laid,’ reassuring him that ‘you’ve got a right hand anyway.’
Meanwhile, the chorus of her new song House Tour ends with the lines: ‘I just want you to come inside, but never enter through the back door.’
Discussing the album in her new interview, she said: ‘There’s so many reasons why I called it Man’s Best Friend and there’s so many layers in the experiences that I was going through at the time where, emotionally, I felt like one.’
She added: ‘I’m really, really grateful that there’s enough of my audience that really knows me as a person that will be able to hear these songs how they’re intended. It’s always going to be up to interpretation and I understand that.’
Sabrina, whose aunt Nancy Cartwright is the longtime voice of Bart Simpson, has previously described her album as not being for the faint of heart.
She has been criticised for her racy lyrics in the past by trolls whom she recently dismissed as ‘pearl-clutchers’, while also hitting out at the older generation for ‘getting offended’
‘It is not for the pearl-clutchers. The album is not for any pearl-clutchers no,’ she said while speaking to Gayle King for CBS Mornings.
‘But I also think that even pearl clutchers can listen to an album like that in their own solitude and find something that makes them smirk and chuckle to themselves.’
However, she acknowledged that her ‘really bold’ lyrics can occasionally be ‘almost TMI’ and uncomfortable to ‘to sing in front of other people.’
Sabrina added: ‘But I think about being at a concert with, you know, however many young women I see in the front row that are screaming at the top of their lungs with their best friends and you can go like, “Oh, we can all like sigh of relief, like, this is just fun and and that’s all it has to be.”‘
