The first black artist with a #1 country album
Beyonce can to proclaim that her latest project is “not a country album,” but someone forgot to say that on the charts.
The superstar made history as the first black woman to hit No. 1 with a country album, the “Act II: Cowboy Carter”according to Billboard.
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According to the Billboard website, this is the eighth album of Beyonce’s career to achieve the number one position in sales.
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This achievement comes at a time when there has been debate over the fact that Beyonce herself is not a country music artist. Although her new album defies genres as it blends pop, country, R&B and other sounds, ‘Bey’ certainly has the credentials to claim country music.
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He grew up in Houston, Texas, which has long had a thriving country music scene. Beyonce also has family roots in the American South. As she sings on her “Formation” hit, “Daddy, Alabama/Mama, Louisiana,” her father, Mathew Knowles, was born in Gadsden, Alabama, while her mother, Tina Knowles, hails from Galveston, Texas. Her extended family is from Louisiana.
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Having sold over 407,000 copies (as of April 4), the “Cowboy Carter” it records the best performance for 2024 and the best performance since its launch “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”of another important singer, her Taylor Swiftwith 1.6 million albums sold as of November 11, 2023.
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