Billboard 200: Beyonce Makes History as ‘Cowboy Carter’ Debuts at #1 With the Year’s BIGGEST Sales

Published: Sunday 7th Apr 2024 by Sam

Beyonce has ridden triumphantly to the top of the Billboard 200 with her new album ‘Cowboy Carter.’

And, true to form, she’s made history in the process.

Full story below…

The colossal LP arrived on March 29 as “Act II” of Queen Bey’s three-project arc following 2022’s Act I: ‘Renaissance.’

Serving as the diva’s formal foray into Country music, the project was preceded by chart-topping single ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ and promised to fuse a myriad of sounds. A promise it held to with splashes of Folk, Opera, and, of course, R&B.

Together with an eclectic list of guests such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, Tanner Adell, and Willie Jones, all created the perfect swirl of buzz around the album – which has opened big on the US tally.

Indeed, per Billboard, ‘Cowboy Carter’ launches at #1 with the following Stateside units sold first:

407,000

It sees the LP arrive as the biggest-selling offering of the year so far.

Of ‘Carter’s total sum, streaming led the charge with 232,000 equivalent units – thanks to 300.41 million streams of the album’s 27 tracks.

It means ‘Cowboy Carter’ not only would have debuted at #1 based on streaming units alone. The LP would have been close to nabbing the highest-selling debut of the year based just on its streams alone.

The pure sales component of the total amounted to 168,000.

There’s more.

Beyonce makes history by becoming the first female artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 with each of her eight solo studio albums.

She also scores a #1 on the Top Country Albums, making her the first Black woman ever to have led the list since its dating to its January 1964 inception.

Huge congrats!

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  1. Yo April 7, 2024

    Yeh and next week won’t be number 1. J cole is gonna knock heroff. After just a week.. Which is shocking giving the amount of exposure cowboy carter has had.

    • Josh April 7, 2024

      Don’t matter. It was there!

    • UHoesFunny April 7, 2024

      Who cares LOL it still went #1 when all her haters said it would NEVER happen and would flop 😂 always moving the goal post lmfaoooo.

  2. Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

    Beyoncé and her 90s peers last album debut Friday on Spotify.

    Beyonce -76.1M
    Shakira – 13M
    Justin Timberlake – 5.94M
    Britney – 5.6M
    Pink – 4.9M
    Usher – 4.32M
    J Lo – 1.3M
    Xtina – 520K
    Alicia Keys – #Error

    (& we are still waiting on Trenches)

  3. Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

    Beyoncé 1st week sales.

    653k – Lemonade
    617k – Beyoncé
    541k – B’Day
    482k – I Am… Sasha Fierce
    407k – Cowboy Carter
    332k – Renaissance
    317k – Dangerously in Love
    310k – 4

    457k – Average…

    Better than RIHANNA, WHITNEY, JANET, & MARIAH.

    LOUD- 238k 😆

    • Bey-A-Culpa April 7, 2024

      Yes most of the U.S. is stupid. Children aren’t in schools, we know this and are working very hard on the issue.

    • Loud April 7, 2024

      Cowboy Carter- 168k
      Loud- 238k
      Lmfaoooooo 😂😂🥰

    • #TheTruth April 7, 2024

      If they had released the Beyoncé album on the right day for a full tracking week, it would have sold over 1 million officially. Which it did, over 7 days.

      • Karen April 7, 2024

        Well they didn’t Loud 238k

    • Diabetes Bothered April 7, 2024

      Lol why dont you mention Taylor and Adele? Oh because those two are the queens. Way above Bey’s league. Multi-Album if the year winners.

      • UHoesFunny April 8, 2024

        Adele’s last album and residency flopped babe

  4. Bey-A-Culpa April 7, 2024

    This had to be one of the most thirsty; annoying and viscous marketing pushes ever. Jay said numbers don’t lie, but the way the story is told is beyond expression. The level of audacity and silencing is high this season. 1 Chop for cosplay fakeness (even tho you from Texas and been a southern baddie). It’s giving calculated rehearsed and greedy. Bye 🙏🏼🙏🏼 pleaseeeeee ❤️

    • Lanafan1 April 7, 2024

      Sounds like marketing…

    • UHoesFunny April 7, 2024

      So marketing and promoting your new album is being thirsty? 😂 you sound so fcking stupid LOL

  5. MecostaDenada April 7, 2024

    You cannot tell me that Beyonce did not go to Satan and make a deal. Nobody on earth in history won this much. It’s something evil about this chick.

    • Lanafan1 April 7, 2024

      Stop this! I swear it’s annoying.

      • Honey I’m da truf! April 7, 2024

        😂😂😂

    • Honey I’m da truf! April 7, 2024

      Girl

  6. Anjaline FU April 7, 2024

    Let’s see if Taylor Swift hits a million or near that number when her new album drops…

    • Aj April 7, 2024

      Tay will hit 1.2m

      • Jankyflopsite April 7, 2024

        Beyoncé? Possibly? Still,Taylor swift couldn’t ever outdue beyMAYOcè, this..we all know

      • UHoesFunny April 7, 2024

        From fat white teenage girls btw, and album will have ZERO impact like all the others

  7. Big fetta April 7, 2024

    Now she can get the album of the year…..

  8. Loud April 7, 2024

    Alicia Keys- Element of Freedom- 417k
    Britney Spears- Circus- 505k
    Ciara- The Evolution- 331k
    Rihanna- Loud- 238k
    Megan Trainor- Title- 231k
    Beyonce- Cowboy CerroR- 168k

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

      Loud… 5th Album.

      Self Titled (5th Album) 1 million in 10 days.

      • KAREN April 7, 2024

        Rihanna 2016 ANTI 11million
        Beyonce 2017 Lemonade 7million
        And Renaissance not gonna pass Anti either

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

        Rihanna = 117M Equivalence (2005)
        Beyonce = 152M Equivalence (1997)

        Rihanna= 31.5M PURE SALES (2005)
        Beyonce = 80M PURE SALES (1997)

        Rihanna Biggest seller GGGB (RE-RELEASED) 24.4M.
        Beyonce Biggest seller IASF (No rerelease)
        21.5M.

      • Loud April 7, 2024

        False. Beyonce didn’t sell one million in 7 days. Her self title album sold 991k in ten days .
        Week 1 (3days)= 617k
        Week 2 (full seven days) = 374k
        Total: 991k
        lol

        Adele 25: 3.6 million in one week 😂😂✅

    • Karen April 7, 2024

      2016 Rihanna ANTI 11 MILLION
      2017 BEYONCE LEMONADE 7 MILL..

  9. Xtina April 7, 2024

    I love how Beyonce has so many haters yet STAY WINNING

  10. Claude Remains April 7, 2024

    Wow! This is embarrassing!! 8 albums into her career and she still can´t sell a million in the first week!!!

    • #TheTruth April 7, 2024

      I’m no Beyhive or stan or whatsover. But who sells this much 27 years into their career ? (21 years solo)
      All her 90s/early 00s peers are very far from these figures…

  11. Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

    Rihanna = 117M Equivalence (2005)
    Beyonce = 152M Equivalence (1997)

    Rihanna= 31.5M PURE SALES (2005)
    Beyonce = 80M PURE SALES (1997)

    Rihanna Biggest seller GGGB (RE-RELEASED) 24.4M.
    Beyonce Biggest seller IASF (No rerelease)
    21.5M.

    • What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

      WHITNEY HOUSTON 1 million first week sales The Bodyguard.

  12. UHoesFunny April 7, 2024

    Beyoncé is the BIGGEST most critically acclaimed artists in the world. Name one person who currently gets this much notoriety, praises, press, from an album release, and to go #1 on a new country genre, NO ONE BUT BEYONCE! She is in a league of her own. The only female artist to ever debut#1 for her first 8 solo albums. Taylor can NEVER EVER achieve this accomplishment I’m afraid. BEYONCE IS KING! The haters don’t like this one bit 😂

    • Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

      💯 🐝 🍯

  13. Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

    COWBOY CARTER on official charts:

    #1 Australia
    #1 Belgium Flanders
    #1 Belgium Wallonia
    #1 Canada
    #1 France
    #1 Germany
    #1 Ireland
    #1 Netherlands
    #1 New Zealand
    #1 Norway
    #1 Scotland
    #1 Sweden
    #1 Switzerland
    #1 UK
    #1 US

    15 #1s the most for any album in 2024

  14. What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

    Whitney Houston The Bodyguard 1 million first week sales,.. Whitney IWDWS movie 60 mill
    Beyonce Renaissance movie. 44 million TELL DOLLY Jolene a flop to .

  15. Anne April 7, 2024

    Great!…No one else sells like this in this stage of their career. Looks like she’ll have 3 top ten songs as well and will most likely have simultaneous #1s on Hot Country album and songs chart. Cowboy Carter is off to a great start!

  16. What Would 50 Do April 7, 2024

    Whitney The Bodyguard 1 million first week. I Will Always Love You 634,000 first week

    • Bey-A-Culpa April 7, 2024

      This sleeze got her album for 18.99 this album was not meant to be bought. Stream allusion queen I swear. She will never get the girls to buy 1 million album pure. They didn’t do it for her birthday in her prime so why would they do it for Jolene lol. Not really tryna comment too much cuz there are idiots out here that deflect n fuel the changing narratives. It’s giving threatening. None of the greats acted like this, nor their fan bases. These h*** got to go and everyone knows it. The justice league will assemble and fix this universe. But right now the forces of evil are definitely winning.

      • Diabetes UNBOTHERED April 7, 2024

        Cry Harder 😢 😭 😿

        #1 Australia
        #1 Belgium Flanders
        #1 Belgium Wallonia
        #1 Canada
        #1 France
        #1 Germany
        #1 Ireland
        #1 Netherlands
        #1 New Zealand
        #1 Norway
        #1 Scotland
        #1 Sweden
        #1 Switzerland
        #1 UK
        #1 US

      • What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

        Whitney The Bodyguard 1 million first week. . I Will Always Love You 634,000 first week

        Dolly should tell Beyonce no refunds

  17. Santos April 7, 2024

    Love Love this Album! Love Levi Jeans with Post Malone! That’s my favorite track!

    This album is a masterpiece! Get it y’all!

  18. Vanilla Bean April 7, 2024

    Eight number 1 albums wow …. E I G H T….. 8! She has EIGHT solo albums.

    ALL of her solo albums went #1.

    Beyonce has been in the industry since 1997. That’s 27 years. And she’s still breaking records, changing the game and impacting the culture. Her sales and tour grosses don’t even need a mention.

    Mind you, she’s 42 years old. An age where most are flopping, nowhere to be found or legacy/nostalgia acts.

    As I’ve stated before, Beyonce is a LEGEND but not a LEGACY act. And you haters will remain in a tizzy because of it.

    Congrats King Bey! 🐝

    • What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

      Whitney The Bodyguard 1 million first week. . I Will Always Love You 634,000 first week
      Dolly should snatch her song out Beyonce hands.

      • Vanilla Bean April 7, 2024

        Whitney died 27 years into her career and struggled the years prior. Her last successful era was in 1998. Next!

    • What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

      Whitney movie 2022 60 million

      Renaissance movie 2023 44 million

      Whitney The Bodyguard 1 million first week. .
      I Will Always Love You 634,000 first week jolene flop.

    • What Would 50 cent Do April 7, 2024

      Whitney
      I look to you 305,000 first week sales
      .
      Beyonce,
      168,000 cowboy ho album
      Jolene
      Flop flop

      The Bodyguard 1 million first week. .
      I Will Always Love You 634,000 first week.

  19. TRACEY CHAPMAN April 7, 2024

    OINKA IS SOMEWHERE SEETHING

  20. Raynebow April 8, 2024

    Overrated AF.

    • MecostaDenada April 8, 2024

      AF, Chile.

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