Beyoncé has landed one other No. 1 album with Cowboy Carter.
Her nation music album bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, in keeping with Billboard and Luminate. Cowboy Carter, which dropped March 29, debuted with 407,000 equal album items earned in america for the week ending April 4.
This marks Beyoncé’s eighth No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200. It additionally marks the largest week for an album thus far in 2024, and the largest since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model), which debuted with 1.653 million items in November.
It’s additionally Beyoncé’s largest week since Lemonade debuted at No. 1 with 653,000 items in Might 2016.
As well as, the album debuted atop a number of different Billboard charts, together with High Nation Albums, Americana/Folks Albums and High Album Gross sales.
Beyoncé additionally boasts one other file, turning into the primary Black girl ever to prime High Nation Albums listing, which was created in 1964. Cowboy Carter additionally notched the largest week for a rustic album since July 2023, when Swift’s Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model), debuted at No. 1 with 716,000 items.
Beyoncé dropped the 27-track album on March 29, however she already had made historical past in February with the discharge of single “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Sizzling Nation Songs chart. That made her the primary Black girl to perform such a feat, in keeping with Billboard.
One other single, “16 Carriages,” climbed to No. 9 on Billboard’s Sizzling Nation Songs chart.
Cowboy Carter options a number of collaborators, together with Jon Batiste, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Stevie Marvel, Chuck Berry, Miley Cyrus, Put up Malone, Rhiannon Giddens, Nile Rodgers, Robert Randolph, Gary Clark Jr., Willie Jones, Brittney Spencer, Shaboozey, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy.
“I feel individuals are going to be stunned as a result of I don’t assume this music is what everybody expects,” Beyoncé mentioned in an announcement pegged to the album’s launch. “But it surely’s the most effective music I’ve ever made.”
Along with Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé has topped the Billboard 200 albums chart seven different instances, with Dangerously In Love (2003), B’Day (2006), I Am… Sasha Fierce (2008), 4 (2011), Beyoncé (2013), Lemonade (2016) and Renaissance (2022).
