Sales of songs had impacted the Hot 100 dating to the chart's Aug. 4, 1958, start (then via retailers' self-reported ranked lists. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, singles - which had ...

By Keith Caulfield Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet hits No. 1 for the first time on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, as the six-month-old set jumps 6-1 on the list dated March 1.