Beyonce records eighth No 1 on Billboard 200 with Cowboy Carter
With Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé got another No. 1 album. According to Billboard and Luminate, her country music album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums list. When Cowboy Carter was released on March 29, it earned 407,000 equivalent album units in the US during the week that ended on April 4.
This is Beyoncé’s 8th No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200. It is also the biggest week for an album so far in 2024, and the biggest since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version), which launched with 1.653 million units in November.
It’s also Beyoncé’s biggest week since Lemonade, which debuted at number one with 653,000 units in May 2016.
The album also debuted at the top of numerous other Billboard charts, such as Top Album Sales, Americana/Folk Albums and Top Country Albums. Beyoncé also set a milestone by being the first Black woman to top the Top Country Albums chart, which was created in 1964. Cowboy Carter also had the greatest week for a country album since July 2023, when Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) debuted at number one with 716,000 units.
Numerous artists have contributed to Cowboy Carter, such as Post Malone, Rhiannon Giddens, Nile Rodgers, Chuck Berry, Jon Batiste, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Linda Martell, Stevie Wonder, Gary Clark Jr., Willie Jones, Brittney Spencer, Shaboozey, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell and Tiera Kennedy.
