Cowboy Carter
Beyoncé tops the US country album charts
Singer Beyoncé becomes the first black woman to top the US country album charts. photo
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In January, her song “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached number one on the Billboard country song charts. Now the singer is making history again.
US superstar Beyoncé has reached the top of the Billboard country album charts with her album “Cowboy Carter”. The 42-year-old is the first black woman to top the US country album charts, as the US magazine “Billboard” reports.
The singer’s eighth solo studio album sold 407,000 copies in the US in the first week of its release at the end of March and also made it to the top of the overall Billboard 200.Charts, it was said. Beyoncé made history in January when her song “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached number one on the Billboard country song charts.
The Texan herself had written that “Cowboy Carter” was “not a country album” but a “Beyoncé album”. The artist shared in the Instagram post that she “felt unwelcome” in the country music scene during a previous experience. In the United States, country is still considered a genre of music that is primarily made and listened to by white men. Country singers like Dolly Parton and Carlene Carter welcomed Beyoncé into the genre.