Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ‘Em” reaches No. 1 in each U.S. and U.Okay.

Beyoncé’s much-discussed nation single “Texas Maintain ‘Em” hit No. 1 in each the U.S. and U.Okay. this week, the primary time she’s had a simultaneous chart-topper on either side of the Atlantic since 2003.

Beyoncé scored her ninth No. 1 hit on the Billboard Sizzling 100, Billboard introduced Monday, one week after she turned the primary Black lady to high Billboard’s Sizzling Nation Songs. 

On the similar time, “Texas Maintain ‘Em” turned her first No. 1 hit within the U.Okay. since “Phone,” her 2010 duet with Woman Gaga — it was her sixth music to high the U.Okay. charts total, Billboard reported.

The surge of debate (and controversy) surrounding Beyoncé’s foray into nation music seemingly helped enhance gross sales and streams. Final week, nation legend Dolly Parton wrote on social media that she’s a “massive fan” of Beyoncé and “very excited that she’s completed a rustic album.”

Upon the only’s launch, in the midst of the 2024 Tremendous Bowl, KYKC-FM, a rustic radio radio station in Oklahoma, initially declined to play the artist. The station supervisor later informed CBS Information he hadn’t identified Beyoncé had launched new nation songs and confirmed he had added “Texas Maintain ‘Em” to the station’s playlist.

Beyoncé’s first No. 1 hit within the U.S. was “Payments, Payments, Payments” with the lady group Future’s Baby, which peaked atop the chart in 1999, in accordance with Billboard. Her first solo No. 1 was her smash hit “Loopy In Love,” which topped the charts for 8 weeks starting in July 2003, practically 21 years in the past. 

Along with her newest hit, Beyoncé landed on Billboard’s record of the highest 10 artists with the longest spans between first and most up-to-date No. 1 hits — at No. 9, beneath Rod Stewart and above Aretha Franklin. (The longest spanner of all time is Brenda Lee, whose Christmas single “Rockin’ Round The Christmas Tree” hit primary in 1960 after which once more in 2024.)

“Texas Maintain ‘Em” makes Beyoncé solely one among two artists (together with Mariah Carey) to have hit the highest of the Sizzling 100 in 4 distinct many years — the 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s — in accordance with Billboard.

The music additionally makes for Beyoncé having the seventh most weeks spent on the high of the charts, with 45 weeks in complete, Billboard reported. Mariah Carey holds the file, with 93 weeks, adopted by Rihanna, The Beatles, Drake, Boyz II Males and Usher. Michael Jackson is eighth whereas Adele, Elton John, Bruno Mars, and Taylor Swift are tied in ninth place, with 34 weeks.