By Jim Asker, Gary Trust: 02/20/2024
Pop and R&B/hip-hop superstar Beyonce makes her debut on Billboard's streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart with her first two entries on the survey: "Texas Hold 'EM" at No.1 and "16 Carriages"
Both tracks were released Feb. 11, as announced in a Verizon commercial that aired during CBS' broadcast of Super Bowl LVlll, ahead of the March 29 arrival of Beyonce's album expected to be titled Act ll, which follows her Renaissance LP.
"Texas Hold 'EM" drew 19.2 million official streams and 4.8 million in all format airplay audience and sold 39,000 in the U.S through Feb.15, according to Luminate. "16 Carriages" rides in with 10.3 million streams, 90,000in radio reach and 14,000 sold.
Notably, the Hot Country Songs coronation of "Texas Hold 'EM" grants Beyonce No. 1's on seven of Billboard's multimetric song charts as a solo artist: the Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Hot Gospel Songs, Hot Latin Songs, Hot R&B Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. She's the only act to have notched No. 1's on that combination of rankings.
Plus, Beyonce makes history as the first woman to have topped both Hot Country Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since the list began as all-encompassing genre song sharts in October 1958. Overall, she joins Morgan Wallen, Bieber, Billy Ray Cyrus and Ray Cyrus as the only acts to have led both charts.
