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Will Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Manchild’ Take Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ Out of the No. 1 Spot?

Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" should have a chance to unseat Alex Warren's "Ordinary" atop the Hot 100 next week.

Then, last Tuesday (June 3), an announcement came that made it clear its competition would soon be stiffer than expected: Sabrina Carpenter, one of the decade’s biggest breakout pop stars, would be returning with a brand new single. The song, packed with the hooks and humor that elevated Carpenter to superstar status during her Short n’ Sweet era, also came with an (at times literally) explosive new video seemingly custom-designed for screengrab memes. 1 following the Tuesday discounting of the song to 69 cents – which, along with a vinyl single now available for purchase on her webstore(including the exclusive B-side “inside of your head when you’ve just won an argument with a man”), would seem to indicate that Carpenter’s team likely feels like the No.

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