Beyoncé‘s 8th studio album, “COWBOY CARTER,” has sold 418,000 album equivalent units in the U.S. in its first week and will debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart dated April 12, 2024. Of that amount 170k attributable to sales, including various vinyl and boxed sets.
Additionally, the album received over 300 million on-demand video and audio streams, marking the highest first-week streams by a female artist since Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” in October 2023 according to Hits daily Double. “COWBOY CARTER” also represents Beyoncé’s largest debut since her 2016 hit album, “Lemonade.”
The album set now ranks among the top 10 best selling albums in the US this year by total units.
“Cowboy Carter,” released under RCA in the U.K., debuted at No.1 in the UK, selling 39,990 units in its first week, comprising 3,660 CDs, 6,092 vinyl albums, 3,846 digital downloads, and 26,392 sales-equivalent streams as measured by the Official Charts Company.
This marks the highest weekly sale of 2024 thus far and the biggest weekly total since November 2023. Notably, “Cowboy Carter” is the first country album by a Black artist to top the UK album chart, and Beyoncé is the first artist to achieve a UK chart double with a country album and single.
Globally on Spotify, Cowboy Carter becomes the 10 highest debut album on Spotify after surpassing 316.5 million streams on the platform.
Her single “Texas Hold ‘Em” also reached No.1 on the official singles chart and dominated airplay charts. Furthermore, Beyoncé secured three singles in the UK Top 10 simultaneously for the first time ever, with “Texas Hold ‘Em,” a cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” and “II Most Wanted,” a collaboration with Miley Cyrus.
This success marks Beyoncé’s fifth solo No.1 album and this achievement represents Beyoncé’s first chart double since 2003.
The song YAYA on the album is produced by Oliver Rodigan, the son of legendary reggae selector David Rodigan.
