Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' has become the first album from a Black woman to top the Country Albums chart; it also debuted at Number One on the Top 200.
also debuted as the Number One album — her eighth to top the Billboard 200 — in the country overall,, which earned 131,000 in its second week. Along with the equivalent of more than 300 million on-demand streams, the album was buoyed by an additional 168,000 traditional album sales.which opened with more than 650,000 units at the time, when streaming was still just coming into dominance as the primary listening format.
While several Black artists such as Charlie Pride, Darius Rucker, and Kane Brown have topped the Country Albums chart over the decades, until now, no Black woman had ever achieved the feat, speaking both to Beyoncé’s range as a superstar artist as well as to the diversity issues that remain within the genre.
The accomplishment comes more than a month after Beyoncé set a similar record with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” which became the first song by a Black woman to“Texas Hold ‘Em” has stood atop the Country Songs chart for about seven weeks, and Apple Music and Spotify placed it at the top of their country playlists upon release.
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