Sabrina Carpenter said “Please Please Please” and the voters certainly listened. According to HeadCount.org, the singer garnered more voters in Tuesday's (Nov. 5) election than any other artist the organization partners with. HeadCount said Carpenter, 25, helped inspire 35,814 voter registrations and got another 263,087 voters to take actions other than registering (including checking their registration status and polling location).
“Through our partnerships with more than 100 top music artists – including Sabrina Carpenter, Green Day, Ariana Grande and so many more – HeadCount had a record year, registering over 450,000 new voters and engaging more than 3 million people to make sure you vote,” the nonprofit's executive director, Lucille Wenegieme, said in a statement. “Our model works because musicians and celebrities have a cultural cache and a close relationship with their fans, especially among young people, whose identity as a fan of a particular artist can be even stronger than other aspects of their identity , including affiliation with a political party or candidate. We are so grateful to our partner artists and their teams who inspire their fans to take control of their future.”
HeadCount said it had a presence at more than 3,700 events this year as part of its 'Good to Vote' campaign, where it registered almost half a million young voters, with almost half of them aged 18-24. Carpenter's impressive numbers on her Short n' Sweet tour, including activating voters through giveaways, personal activations and video boards and mailers. The partnership also included a sweepstakes offering fans a chance to preview the tour by checking their registration status, with winners slated to move on to the singer's Nov. 9 show in San Francisco.
Additionally, on their Saviors Stadium World tour, pop-punk legends Green Day broke HeadCount's all-time record for the most voters on a single tour, registering more than 7,900 new voters and attracting over 61,000 voters through in-person activations. on the excursion; These numbers nearly double the previous record set by Ariana Grande on her Sweetener World tour in 2019.
HeadCount — which works with hundreds of other touring artists, including 5 Seconds of Summer, Brandi Carlile, Alicia Keys, Chappell Roan, Ariana Grande, Fall Out Boy, Billie Eilish, DRake, HAIM, Gracie Abrams, Harry Styles and more — has registered more than 1.5 million voters since 2004. This year, the group said it recruited more than three million music fans to take action, another all-time record for the organization, with more than 80% of all voters registered to represent Gen Z or millennials.
from our partners at https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/sabrina-carpenter-engaged-registered-most-voters-2024-election-headcount-1235821392/
