Sabrina Carpenter didn’t expect her single Espresso to be such a huge record-breaking hit. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the pop star admitted she was unsure whether the song would connect with people.
The Please Please Please hitmaker, who recently partnered with Dunkin’ Donuts for her Sabrina’s Brown Sugar Shakin’ Espresso drink, says the success of her song was “luck the way it works out.” Espresso became one of the most streamed songs on Spotify in 2024, with over 1.6 billion streams.
Carpenter released the song in April and was unsure whether it would catch on due to its difficult timing. “I remember at the beginning of the summer I decided to do this song and I thought that espresso, coffee, was a kind of fall drink,” he said.
Although she was skeptical about the success, she was confident about the “feeling” and sound of the song. He added, “The confidence that it carries with it is something I really believed in.”
The Bed Came singer also said that she loved the song and that it is “important” to her in this moment. “That’s something I try to remember again and again,” she said. The single was her first release from her latest album Short N’ Sweet, which earned six nominations at the 2025 Grammy Awards. While Espresso won Best Pop Solo Performance. Social class.
Elsewhere in the interview, he admitted that the song has been “addictive” to him as well. “I think that’s the whole point of it. It’s a bit like an addiction,” he said.
He said, “I didn’t write it with that in mind. So I’m very happy to hear it. But thank you for listening so many times, even if you didn’t know it.” Speaking to The Guardian in August, he called the song an “expression strategy” as he acknowledged that at the time no one was “obsessed” with him, the subject on which his song focuses.
