Sabrina Carpenter Turns 27: A Star Who Keeps Rising

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Sabrina Carpenter is 27 today, and if the last two years are any indication, she’s just getting started.

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The pop star — who has racked up six top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, two Grammy wins, and a fanbase that hangs on her every lyric — is celebrating another birthday at the absolute peak of her powers. From “Espresso” to “Manchild,” Carpenter has spent the last couple of years rewriting what a mainstream pop breakthrough can look like: slow-built, sharply crafted, and completely undeniable once it arrives.

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From Maya Hart to Global Pop Star

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It’s easy to forget now, but Sabrina Carpenter spent years quietly building toward this moment. She first landed on the radar as Maya Hart on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World, the beloved Boy Meets World spinoff that ran from 2014 to 2017. She was a fan favorite from the jump — funny, sharp, magnetic on screen — and was already balancing acting with a music career that most people outside her fanbase hadn’t fully clocked yet.

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She released album after album — Eyes Wide Open, Evolution, Singular: Act I and Act II, Emails I Can’t Send — steadily evolving her sound and growing her audience, even as mainstream recognition stayed just out of reach. Songs like “Feather” and “Nonsense” from the Emails I Can’t Send era gave hints of what was coming. Then came 2024.

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The Short n’ Sweet Era That Changed Everything

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“Espresso” dropped as a pre-album single and peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100. That was just the opening act. “Please Please Please” and “Taste” followed, giving Carpenter her first and second No. 1s on the chart. Short n’ Sweet didn’t just perform — it dominated, and at the 2025 Grammys, it took home Best Pop Vocal Album while “Espresso” won Best Pop Solo Performance. Two Grammys. First time nominated.

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She also spent a chunk of that era opening for Taylor Swift on the Eras Tour, which introduced her to arenas full of people who became instant converts. Swift later tapped her as a guest vocalist on “The Life of a Showgirl,” the title track from Swift’s project of the same name, which peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100 — adding yet another top 10 to Carpenter’s growing tally.

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Man’s Best Friend and the Manchild Moment

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Rather than coast, Carpenter came back in 2025 with her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, and lead single “Manchild” shot straight to No. 1. The album has continued to perform, with tracks like “House Tour” finding their own lives with fans. A Grammy nomination for the album is already in the mix.

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Six top 10s. Two No. 1s. Two Grammys. A world tour. A perfume line — the Sweet Tooth collection, with scents like Me Espresso and Cherry Baby — and a Funko Pop modeled after the “Manchild” music video, thumbs-up pose and all. She is, by any measure, one of the biggest pop stars on the planet right now.

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Billboard is marking her birthday by asking fans to vote on her greatest hit so far — a question that, given the pace she’s moving, might look very different by the time she turns 28.

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