It has been a great week for Beyoncé, from releasing her anticipated country album to great acclaim and then accepting an achievement award from none other than Stevie Wonder.
On March 29, Beyoncé released Cowboy Carter, a country music-inspired album that she said she wanted to make after feeling she was not "welcomed" in the genre. So far, the album has been a great success, both critically and in the charts.
Audio-streaming service Spotify revealed the album was streamed 76.5 million times on its first day of release, making it the most listened-to new album this year and most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far. It also achieved this feat on Amazon Music. Since then, it has more than 213 million streams in about five days on Spotify.
Cowboy Carter is outselling all other albums in the top 5 in the United Kingdom and is on track to be No. 1 there, according to Official Charts. Elsewhere, Cowboy Carter debuted at No. 2 on Apple Music charts and 26 out of 27 songs on the album are in its top 100 list, per CBS News.
In February, Beyoncé released two songs from the album, "16 Carriages" and "Texas Hold 'Em," the latter of which went to the top of Billboard's country music chart, making her the first Black woman to achieve the feat.
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