Beyoncé’s latest album Cowboy Carter is already setting information.
Not even 24 hours after its launch, Spotify revealed that the Grammy-winning artist’s nation album turned its most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 to this point. The music large additionally famous that it was the primary time a rustic album had held that title this 12 months.
Previous to the discharge of Cowboy Carter on Friday, Beyoncé’s single “Texas Maintain ‘Em” peaked at No. 1 on the U.S. High 50 chart after being streamed greater than 200 million occasions.
The nation album — and the second installment in a possible trilogy mission following 2022’s Renaissance — includes a 27-song tracklist, together with collaborations with Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus, Publish Malone, Willie Nelson and extra.
Since being dropped, followers have been flooding social media with their reactions to the highly-anticipated mission that marks Beyoncé’s first studio album within the style. It’s additionally a notably particular mission for the singer, as she has beforehand expressed feeling not “welcomed” in nation house throughout previous makes an attempt to enter the style.
“This style pressured me to propel previous the constraints that had been placed on me,” she wrote on Instagram earlier this month. “Act ii is a results of difficult myself, and taking my time to bend and mix genres collectively to create this physique of labor.”
Earlier Friday, it was additionally introduced that Cowboy Carter broke information on Amazon Music — making it Beyoncé’s greatest album debut thus far. The album scored extra first-day streams on Amazon Music globally than any of her earlier albums, in addition to marked essentially the most first-day streams for a rustic album by a feminine artist within the historical past of Amazon Music.
Cowboy Carter, which options tracks “Jolene,” “II Most Needed,” “Bodyguard,” “Candy Honey Buckin’” and extra, is presently streaming throughout music platforms.