Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter is a certified success! After setting historic records last week, Queen B's newest album is spending another week atop the Billboard 200 chart.
Although album units declined starkly, Beyoncé managed to pull off a number that still put her atop.
Beyonce' Cowboy Carter' Billboard 200
According to Luminate's newest records, Cowboy Carter spends the second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart. Billboard noted that this was the first time a Beyoncé album had spent more than one week atop the charts since her self-titled album in 2013, which spent three weeks atop.
More so, Cowboy Carter becomes the third album by Beyoncé to have spent more than one week at the top. Beyoncé spent the longest with three weeks, while 4 spent two weeks in 2011.
Current numbers revealed that the album only raked in 125,500 units, which was 407,000 album units. Streaming powered most of the album this week, with 103,000 units or 132.69 million streams. Meanwhile, traditional album sales comprise 20,5000, while track units are a mere 2,000.
'COWBOY CARTER' is now Beyoncé's longest running #1 album on the Billboard 200 since 'BEYONCÉ' in 2013. pic.twitter.com/JyyNlr8RaD
— chart data (@chartdata) April 14, 2024
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Beyonce' Cowboy Carter' Billboard Hot 100
Following the album's success, Béyonce further solidified her mark on the music industry with the album's singles all topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
She recently joined an elite circle that only Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj have been a part of - the circle of female artists who have charted more than 100 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
According to Billboard, all 23 music tracks on Cowboy Carter debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The four other tracks on the 27-track album are spoken-word interludes.
Béyonce's recent achievement puts her in 13th place in the race for the most overall and third-most among women. Swift has 232 Hot 100 hits, Minaj has 148 hits, and Béyonce has 106.
Overall, Drake tops the list with 329 songs charted on the Hot 100, followed by Swift with 232, the Glee Cast with 207, and 186 songs from Lil Wayne. Bey has officially surpassed her husband, Jay-Z, who only has 105 songs charted on the Hot 100.
