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Did anyone think that BeyoncĂ©‘s Cowboy Carter wouldn’t lasso a huge #1 debut on the Billboard chart?
Bey’s acclaimed new album debuts with sales of 407,000 units, giving her the biggest first-week sales of 2024 and the biggest first-week sales since Taylor Swift‘s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold 1.65 million units in November. Cowboy Carter is Bey’s biggest week since Lemonade debuted with 653,000 units in 2016.
Cowboy Carter also debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, American/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts. BeyoncĂ© is now the first Black woman to top the Top Country Albums chart, which was established in 1964.
In addition, Cowboy Carter scores the biggest first-week sales for a country album since July when â who else? â Taylor Swift crashed in with 716,000 units of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).
Overall, Cowboy Carter is BeyoncĂ©’s eighth #1 on the Billboard album chart, following Renaissance, Lemonade, her self-titled album, 4, I Am … Sasha Fierce, B’Day and Dangerously In Love. Now only Taylor, Barbra Streisand and Madonna have had more chart-topping albums than she has.
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After over 20 years of calling herself “Da Baddest B****,” Trina is ready to share her story. This fall, she’ll release a new memoir, Da Baddest, which will drop via Simon & Schuster.
It will provide an “evocative look into Trinaâs upbringing” as a sheltered child with dreams of becoming a background dancer in rap videos and a “powerful, successful and magnetic woman, a woman who was entirely self-reliant and independent.”
Things took a different turn, as she’s now an icon in the rap game who has had much influence on others. The book will prove “why she is the blueprint” and show the ways in which she “helped pave the way for the future of female rappers and hip-hop artists,” according to a press release.
Da Baddest will drop on October 8; fans should expect a contribution from Missy Elliott, as she wrote the foreword for the book.
“Trina always understands the assignment,” Missy wrote, per People. “She knows how to adapt to evolving sounds, generations and trends without losing the core of who she is as an artist.”
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