Emails I Can't Send

Emails I Can't Send is the fifth studio album by American singer and songwriter Sabrina Carpenter, released on July 15, 2022, by Island Records. It is Carpenter's first studio album with the label. The album spawned five singles – "Skinny Dipping", "Fast Times", "Vicious", "Because I Liked a Boy" and "Nonsense".

Emails I Can't Send
Sabrina Carpenter wearing a bareback black dress and sitting on a hotel bed, with a laptop next to her.
Studio album by
Sabrina Carpenter
ReleasedJuly 15, 2022
RecordedSummer 2021
GenrePop
Length39:14
LabelIsland
Producer
Sabrina Carpenter chronology
Singular: Act II
(2019)		 Emails I Can't Send
(2022)
Singles from Emails I Can't Send
  1. "Skinny Dipping"
    Released: September 9, 2021
  2. "Fast Times"
    Released: February 18, 2022
  3. "Vicious"
    Released: July 1, 2022
  4. "Because I Liked a Boy"
    Released: July 15, 2022
  5. "Nonsense"
    Released: November 14, 2022

Carpenter embarked on the Emails I Can't Send Tour in September 2022, in support of the album.[1] The album ranked 44th overall in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Albums of 2022. On the Billboard 200, it peaked at number 23 and became her highest-charting album on the chart. The album's fifth single, "Nonsense", became her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background and release

"A lot of it came from the humor side of things. I would be reading it and being like, 'Oh my god, that's so terrible, how did I say that?'. Then it would turn into a song. Most of the songs that happened were me going like, 'Oh my god that's terrible I can't say that,' and then I say it, but for three minutes."

—Carpenter, during an interview with Teen Vogue, about the emails she wrote to herself[2]

By June 2019, while promoting her fourth studio album Singular: Act II, Marie Claire magazine reported that Carpenter had begun work on a fifth studio album.[3] In 2020, she released "Honeymoon Fades" and songs intended to support her acting career such as "Let Me Move You" for Work It and the Clouds soundtrack.[4][5][6] In January 2021, Carpenter was signed to Island Records, after four albums with Hollywood Records and released "Skin". The track debuted and peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first entry on the chart.[7][8]

Carpenter reported to Teen Vogue in September 2021 that many of the album's songs were written from emails she wrote to herself, such as the song she shared on August 7 with the description "intro", later revealed as the title track of the album.[2] She also revealed that she finished the album's recording in New York with Julia Michaels, JP Saxe, John Ryan and Leroy Clampitt, after she moved to Manhattan's Financial District, in June 2021.[2][9] Carpenter confirmed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the album would be dropped sometime in 2022 and that the title was hidden in work released the year before.[9] The album's name clue was in the music video for "Skinny Dipping", in a shot where the name appears in a Scrabble game.[10]

On March 9, 2023, Carpenter announced a deluxe edition of the album titled Emails I Can't Send Fwd:. It was released on March 17, 2023.[11]

Singles

"Skinny Dipping" was released as the album's lead single on September 9, 2021.[12] "Fast Times" was released as the album's second single on February 18, 2022.[13] "Vicious" was released as the third single on July 1, 2022, along with the album's pre-order.[14] "Because I Liked a Boy" was released as the fourth single on July 15, 2022, along with the album and its music video.[15] A music video for "Nonsense" was released on November 10, 2022, which was later confirmed by Carpenter to be the fifth single from the album.[16]

Promotion

On August 30, 2022, Carpenter performed the album's fourth single "Because I Liked a Boy" on The Late Late Show with James Corden.[17]

Tour
Main article: Emails I Can't Send Tour

On August 15, 2022, Carpenter announced that she would embark on her fourth concert tour in support of Emails I Can't Send. The first leg of the tour began on September 29, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia and concluded on October 20, 2022, in Orlando, Florida.[18]

On December 12, 2022, Carpenter announced a second North American leg of the tour for the spring of 2023.[19]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[20]

Liam Hess of Vogue stated that the album is "the most fully realized vision of Carpenter the musician—and the most rounded portrait of Carpenter the human being—yet."[21]

Year-end lists
Select year-end rankings of Emails I Can't Send
Publication List Rank Ref.
Billboard The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Staff List 19 [22]
Rolling Stone The 100 Best Albums of 2022 44 [23]

Commercial performance

Emails I Can't Send debuted at number 23 on the US Billboard 200, with 18,000 album-equivalent units earned, which consisted 7,000 pure album copies,[24] making it Carpenter's highest entry on the chart,[25] as well as number 55 on the Canadian Albums Chart, her second and highest entry on that chart.[26] The album debuted at number 76 on the UK Albums Chart, making it Carpenter's first entry on the chart.[27]

In Australia, the album debuted at number 44 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It tied Evolution as Carpenter's highest-charting album in the country.[28] In New Zealand, Emails I Can't Send debuted at number 27 on the chart, Carpenter's first entry on the chart.[29]

Track listing
Emails I Can't Send track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicProducer(s)Length
1."Emails I Can't Send"Sabrina Carpenter
Clampitt1:44
2."Vicious"
Jason EviganEvigan[a]2:29
3."Read Your Mind"
Leroy ClampittClampitt3:27
4."Tornado Warnings"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
  • Saxe
  • Jorgen Odegard
Odegard3:24
5."Because I Liked a Boy"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
Ryan3:16
6."Already Over"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
  • Ryan
  • Michaels
  • Saxe
Ryan2:50
7."How Many Things"
  • Carpenter
  • Saxe
Ryan MarroneMarrone4:03
8."Bet U Wanna"
  • Carpenter
  • Steph Jones
  • Julian Bunetta
  • Clampitt
  • Bunetta
  • Clampitt
3:11
9."Nonsense"
  • Carpenter
  • Jones
  • Bunetta
Bunetta2:43
10."Fast Times"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
  • Ryan
  • Michaels
  • Saxe
Ryan2:54
11."Skinny Dipping"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
  • Clampitt
  • Michaels
  • Saxe
Clampitt2:57
12."Bad for Business"
  • Carpenter
  • Jones
  • Clampitt
  • Jones
Clampitt3:08
13."Decode"
  • Carpenter
  • Michaels
  • Ryan
  • Michaels
  • Saxe
Ryan3:08
Total length:39:14
Emails I Can't Send Fwd: deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."Opposite"
  • Carpenter
  • Allen
  • Lostboy
Lostboy2:48
15."Feather"
  • Allen
  • Ryan
  • Carpenter
Ryan3:05
16."Lonesome"
  • Clampitt
  • Carpenter
  • Stonestreet
Clampitt3:07
17."Things I Wish You Said"
  • Clampitt
  • Carpenter
  • Jones
Clampitt2:42
Total length:50:56

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies a vocal producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Emails I Can't Send.[30]

Charts
Chart performance for Emails I Can't Send
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[28] 44
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[31] 136
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[26] 55
Irish Albums (IRMA)[32] 57
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[29] 27
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[33] 83
UK Albums (OCC)[34] 76
US Billboard 200[25] 23

Release history
Release history and formats for Emails I Can't Send
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various July 15, 2022
Island [35]

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