Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” reaches prime of Billboard nation albums chart

Beyoncé simply retains making historical past.

The Houston-born singer turned the primary Black lady to prime the Billboard Nation Albums chart after her newest album “Act II: Cowboy Carter” hit the No. 1 spot. It additionally topped the all-genres Billboard 200, marking her eighth No. 1 album.

The singer launched the 27-track nation album final month, and followers clearly cannot get sufficient of it.

Since its launch, “Cowboy Carter” has been breaking streaming data. Spotify introduced on social media final week that on the day the album dropped – March 29 – it turned the platform’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 up to now.

The album additionally earned the title of most first-day streams of a rustic album by a feminine artist on Amazon Music.

Forward of the album’s launch, Beyoncé dropped two singles on Tremendous Bowl Sunday: “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.” The previous debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Nation Charts, making Beyoncé the primary Black lady to prime that chart.

In response to Luminate, the business information and analytics firm, “Cowboy Carter” totaled 407,000 equal album models, a mixture of pure album gross sales and on-demand streams, earned within the U.S. in its first week.

As a Black lady reclaiming nation music, Beyoncé stands in opposition to stereotypical associations of the style with White artists. The dialog surrounding Beyoncé’s nation music explorations started when she arrived on the 2024 Grammy Awards in full cowboy regalia — making a press release with out saying a phrase. 

Beyoncé, who’s the album’s govt producer, stated in a press release it’s “the most effective music I’ve ever made.”