A-List Pop is your weekly guide to what’s on top in pop music—and 2024 was undeniably the year of Sabrina Carpenter. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album Short n’ Sweet parked itself on top of the Apple Music charts for the majority of 2024, while the singles “Espresso”, “Please Please Please” and “Taste” all became viral anthems, leaving their mark on culture and in our heads. Carpenter’s music is brutally honest, funny and, most importantly, catchy. “There really are no rules to the things you say,” she told Zane Lowe about the songwriting process. “You’re just like, what sounds awesome? What feels awesome? And what gets the story across, whatever story that is?” And that’s that me espresso.