Beyoncé Is the First Black Woman With a No. 1 Record on the Top Country Albums Chart
The album also sets a new record for the largest week of 2024 so far.
Beyoncé makes chart history twice with COWBOY CARTER as the record debuts at No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums chart.
The act ii installment earned 407,000 units in its first week, setting the record for the biggest week of 2024. The total first-week sum includes 232,000 streaming equivalent album units (300.41 million on-demand official streams of the songs), 168,000 in album sales and 7,000 in track equivalent album units. COWBOY CARTER gives Bey her biggest streaming week ever and the fourth-largest for a country album, and officially makes her the first Black woman to ever hold the top spot on the Top Country Albums chart since its establishment in 1964.
In addition, COWBOY CARTER gives the icon her eight No. 1 effort on the Billboard 200 following RENAISSANCE, Lemonade, Beyoncé, I Am… Sasha Fierce, B’Day and Dangerously In Love. She now ties with Janet Jackson for the fourth-most No. 1s among female artists.
Also debuting on this week’s chart is J-Hope’s Hope On the Street, Vol. 1, which opens at No. 5 with 50,000 equivalent album units.
Elsewhere in this week’s top 10 are Future and Metro Boomin at No. 2, Morgan Wallen at No. 3 and Ariana Grande at No. 4. Making up the bottom half are Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan, Taylor Swift at No. 8, SZA at No. 9 and Zach Bryan at No. 10.
