Sabrina Carpenter managed to make this seemingly daunting task look effortless. There was a high risk that, after all that Espresso, Please Please Please - the second single from Carpenter's Short n' Sweet album - could have felt like a major comedown,

Sabrina [Carpenter], Charli and Chappell Roan — the three of them have had this shared experience of artists who have been crystallizing, and that’s where you get gems,” Antonoff said of 2024’s scene-stealers.

The Screening Committee's oft-stated aim is to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and they demonstrated that this year.