Beyoncé gave us one of the buzziest albums in recent months with Cowboy Carter, and the first week’s sales reflect its enormous success. Queen B’s country-inspired record soared to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with the largest week for any album released this year.
Cowboy Carter hit No. 1 with 407,000 equivalent album units during its debut week. It earned Beyoncé the largest streaming week of her career, and SEA units comprise 232,000 of the album’s total units, equaling 300.41 million official streams.
Cowboy Carter also easily topped Billboard’s Album Sales charts, with 168,000 units earned in traditional album sales. Vinyl copies made up 62,000 of those units, helping Beyoncé score the largest vinyl week of her career so far.
To make the whole thing even more impressive, Cowboy Carter also Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, and it’s quite historic to see it hit No. 1. It’s the first album by a female Black artist to ever climb to the top of this chart.
Cowboy Carter hit the shelves on March 29, as a second act of the trilogy which Beyoncé initially kicked off with Renaissance. She promoted it with the lead single “Texas Hold ‘Em”, which made history as the first song by a Black female artist to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart.
