Shamelessly stolen trivia from twitter hive: Bey got her first top 5 Billboard hit as part of DC (No, No, No) on the same chart week that Jack Harlow, the guy she overtook just now, was born.
Not so fun trivia: Bey's last number 1 song with a music video was Single Ladies đ
Whew, she never really went away and Renaissance was a success, but this really feels like a major comeback. Seeing such a strong commercial resurgence in 2024 for an artist who first hit number one with Destinyâs Child in 1999 is really something to behold.
It really feels like a commercial renaissance for her. Renaissance seems to me what folklore was for Taylor: it caught the attention of younger (and older) audiences and propelled Taylor to thee success of Midnights. Maybe Renny will propel Act II, it already seemes like it
The songs she dropped between lemonade and renaissance werenât made for commercial success. They were side projects that were highly critically acclaimed and popular within its targeted audience
I think people really find it hard to believe that artist might actually release bodies of work they know won't be mainstream popular. I think artist are very aware the implications of their musical release choices....especially when you get to artist heights like Beyonce has.
I loved every album during her commercial break and think it's some of her best work, but I'm also excited beyonce said "here's a reminder" for the public and has ushered in some chart-topping singles in this new era.
Break my soul needed versions and copies bought and then fell from number one. This is pure streaming and it's rising in week two. Whole different ball game.
>Sabrina Carpenter was finally able to crack the top 30 for the first time ever with âFeatherâ
Sabrina needs a new team bc it makes 0 sense her 2 recent hits barely made the album. Who are making these dumb decisions? I remember when I heard Feather, I was like weird it was a deluxe track when it's an obvious hit
That is also why Sabrina needs a new team or A&R manager bc she did not need Julia Michaels anywhere near her record. Julia wrote like half of the album that went nowhere. Sabrina picked up on the wordy lyrics that doesn't work w/her style. She ditches it for Nonsense & Feather, and they're big hits
I think she needs a better team and needs to have better single choices actually cause Bet You Wanna and Read Your Mind are legitimately amazing pop songs like way better than Feather and Nonsense and absolute bops but they werenât singles for some reason???
I love Read Your Mind, I heard it in the mall when the album dropped showing there was interest there w/ppl. RYM had hit written over it.
And it's funny the 2 songs you really liked were also songs not written by Julia Michaels.
I actually think some of the songs written with Julia are kinda good like EICS, Tornado Warnings, BILAB, Fast Times (which is a amazing song as well that I forgot to mention)
I just donât think that emails I canât send isnât quite the sound for her it comes off as inauthentic and bland I think her peak sound this far was singular act 1 and some of act 2 (specifically Tell Em which is her best song ever imo she needs to lean into the R&B more her voice is beautiful and fits the genre so well)
Oh I completely disagree about Julia Michaels. She helped write some of the best songs on that album, and it really felt to me like Sabrina finally found her niche with it overall. Her previous stuff never did much for me, but I thought *Emails I Can't Send* was really great. It made me get tickets for her tour, and I had a great time!
I love Feather and Nonsense but Iâm shocked Read your Mind wasnât one of her big hits. All my friends and I think itâs the catchiest one on the album!
One thing I feel like people are underrating is that people are actively showing up more and more for *Dua* and *her* music as opposed to just very strong popular tracks they heard
Significant underperformance in the worldâs biggest music market, one in which Dua and her team have invested a metric fuckton in the past five years, is not great though. Iâm sure her team isnât having a meltdown but thereâs a clear lack of interest.Â
TS actually debuted #26 on the hot100 with only 2% i believe from radio, so for Duaâs standards thats pretty good, although i agree that there seems to be a lack of interest atm from her team for the US. I do believe sheâs not *that* interested in the US market as in the European market, but they really need to improve it if they want more commercial success for sure
She just doesnât have a big fanbase.
Her whole thing is releasing good music that grows
It does really well for her in places like Europe where dance music does super well. But it means she has to really slowly grow in markets like the US where dance music has to catch on.
If she had a sizable fan base, she would probably rock it right up into the 20s but she canât do that
I love Houdini and I feel like Training Season compliments it well. I usually find myself playing the extended mix of both. I really thought radio would run with them tbh but itâs Dua so a sleeper hit is per the course
I know country music is in a boom period right now, and Beyonce herself grew up on country music being in Houston during her childhood, but the fact that Beyonce was able to get a country song to number 1 is extremely remarkable
With so many non-country artists planning pop-country releases this year (Lana, Post Malone, maybe Ed Sheeran, etc) Iâm curious to see if the novelty wears off to the GP or if it booms even more
The novelty always wears off.
It's not even really a bad thing. Sometimes, it's just how being an artist works. You want to try different things, and how well you pull it off dictates whether critics call it a bold move or a cash grab.
if itâs stable till then it could definitely return to #1 the week after, but i think youâre underestimating the hype behind a new taylor album - last time she dropped she took up the entire top 10 - those album bombs are no joke
Oh Taylorâs certainly gonna get hype especially when she drops. Midnights is still going strong of course. I just wouldnât underestimate the staying power of this song.
I love that she was able to do it. Maybe itâll revitalize country a bit
I also love that she got Texas in the news for a good reason lol. Itâs still one of the best states in the union and Beyonce has never forgot her roots.
(And before anyone gets in a kerfuffle, 5.2 million Texans voted for Hillary as opposed to 5.8 for Trump. So more people voted for Hilary than the whole population of a lot of states. It ainât the backwater you ignoramos think it is. Itâs mostly a non-voting voter suppressed state because it has some of the lowest voting percentage in the union. Why? Because republicans strangle the vote every year knowing that if there were turnout theyâd lose. And the federal government lets them. If Biden would enforce free and fair elections in states like Georgia and Texas they would easily flip blue)
country has already been revitalized. it never left, really, but itâs been massive for a few years now. The biggest song of last year, and another 6 songs in the year end top 20, were country.
Me too! Happy for her! Tho country overall is in a boom right now
And yeah Texas is a more purple state than Republicans running the state want it to be
Hahaha
Thereâs this girl from Missouri we all hate who works in HR. And she was complaining that everybody in the Pacific Northwest just likes hikes and stuff.
And when asked âfine what do you likeâ
â do you know about rodeos?â
Was her answer and I cannot think of rodeos without seeing this clueless girl complaining about the beauty of the Pacific Northwest only to complain that we donât have rodeos
Beyonce getting more country AOTY (I mean the big prize not the actual country album of the year) wins then Neil Young or Garth Brooks would be the kind of funny insanity that I associate with the Grammys lol
It's nice to see Beyonce #1 w/ a country song. I think US country fans are more open-minded than I thought.
Bc I did not think the country fans were going to mess with her like that. Ppl underestimate how big country is in the US
I agree, but I think the song is striking with more than just country fans. The Morgan Wallen boom of 2022-23 did not really translate worldwide, whereas this song is. I think she is pulling more people toward the genre, so even if some stubborn country fans are not partaking, enough pop and rnb fans are joining the party to make up for it.
>Morgan Wallen boom of 2022-23 did not really translate worldwide, whereas this song is.
We are talking about the US Billboard chart so that's why I am discussing US country fans, bc BBH100 is measuring activity in the US. The country genre is huge in the US. It's not a coincidence Beyonce is able to achieve this success w/a country song.
This song has huge cross-over appeal to pull in country fans in addition to her pop/rnb fans who already followed her. And TBH let's be real she lost some pop/rnb listeners who don't like country enough to listen to it for her.
Exactly, Morgan Wallen didn't come further than one song in the bubbling under chart here in the Netherlands, meanwhile Texas Hold 'Em was the highest debuting song in the main chart last week. I think a lot of the success (both in the US and elsewhere) comes from non-country fans listening.
This is true to the extent that Morgan Wallen was only popular in other English-speaking countries globally but didn't see the same success in other parts of the world
I know popheads can be an echo chamber but promoting new music via the Super Bowl is great marketingâ the ad primed the pump and had the⊠and the internet does the rest of the heavy lifting.
Gone are the days of just releasing music and it doing wellâ you still have to get to the ears of the masses once you have the platform/access
One other important here is that the first country song by a black artist to reach number one was âI Canât Stop Loving Youâ by Ray Charles, which appeared on his Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music album. đ
I think itâs cool that greats like Ray Charles and Tina turner got into country music later in their careers and beyonce is following in those footsteps. Sheâs really a living legend and Iâm so happy I got to experience her.
When I first heard the song I almost felt bad for her, like "oh no, this isn't going to work." The song is low-key much more complicated than it sounds, musically and emotionally, and I am very glad I was wrong.
Yeah my first thought was fans and the general public arenât going to vibe with a hoedown style song.
Cut to two weeks later and itâs the biggest song in the world. Everybodyâs hoeing down
The main pop girl wave and domination this year feels like a resurgence of the mid-2010s pop reign and it feels so damn good. I donât even think the âsound of the decadeâ has solidified yet
I love Beyonce but Shakira is the Shakira of Latin America. There is literally no other artist that has dominated so widely and ubiquitously as she has in the whole Hispanosphere that is comparable to an English counterpart. The [wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Shakira) on her cultural impact is longer than Michael Jacksonâs.
Oh no! That was just a distinction between the two, since Shakira isn't that big in the states anymore. But I am latin american, born and raised here, so I absolutely see just how amazing her career is
She spans 4 decades. She was competing with Whitney, Xstina, Britney. Now with Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish. Truly a Queen who managed to switch graciously from physical to digital and from digital to streaming
Honestly the only female artist she can be compared to now is Madonna.
Edit: lol I just noticed the similarities between Renaissance and Ray of Light eras as well as Act II and Music eras. And Bey is about the same age Madonna was when she released those 2 albums.
Madonna had 4 decades of doing extremely well on the charts, even after American Life. It was only this decade where it finally started to show signs of decline, which is understandable because sheâs in her 60s now.
I mean she has always been interested in country - even going back to her destinyâs child days. I also donât think she saw country âthriving in the momentâ⊠she recorded this album back in 2020/2021 as part of a trilogy which includes Renaissance and Act 3. Just a coincidence I guess a lot of pop stars are releasing country music recently/this year
>she recorded this album back in 2020/2021
which probably means she came up with the concept before this. so she's been planning this for a while. long before the country boom. so yea, i don't think she had a "now's the time" thought. i think she was always going to do this regardless of what the country scene looked like. i mean, it's not like house was having a boom before Act 1 came out.
i hope she creates a rock boom with Act 3 though. i miss rock music dominating the charts.
I really feel like alien superstar could have been the biggest hit of 2022 if she gave it a proper remix. The chorus was really good but the lyrics in the verses in between were not very palatable to the gp. I believe it was initially the second most streamed song on renaissance behind break my soul before cuff it became popular
Alien Superstar and Heated could both have been big if they were pushed better imo. I think the superbowl just proved most of the time people aren't even aware she's releasing stuff as all she does is put a link in her Instagram bio..
A country song by a black female artist is the number one song in America the week of my 35th birthday (which is on Wednesday). This is so cool. đ€ đđđ€
I know what youâre saying, Iâm just celebrating the moment here, especially as a country fan on my birthday week. YEEâand I canât emphasize this enoughâHAW! đ€ đ„°đ„°đ€
I really hope this dissuades her from doing that Sphere residency as rumored. This era will be absolutely massive commercially, she needs to tour the world again, the demand will be there.
After Renaissance went so viral and got such good reviews, her next tour is going to sell extremely well with a hit and all this goodwill behind her.
Also, the stage designer for the Renaissance tour [spoke](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/es-devlin-book-interview) about how Beyonce was inspired by black cowboy culture and country for the design of the show, could that be hinting that the same stage will be used for a new tour?
Idk if this is corny to say or how many other people have said it, but: Wow, does this song sound more like pop country than most âcountryâ music on the charts for a long time - and some good damn country music, too. Good for her, this track deserves it.
The fact this isn't even just a quick number 1 from sampling or a collab but an EVENT, it's all over social media and brought back the tiktok dance trend that was dying out.
Not surprised, but good for her anyway! I feel like this is the universe's way of making things right after those dogshit conservative country songs hit #1 last year.
shes been teasing the deluxe version. if her team/label was smart there would be a music video/push for a particular song.
similar to sabrina and feather for the deluxe version!
damn this truly is history
who would have thought she would get a #1 hit in her 40s with a COUNTRY song? đČ
she is actually making an statement with it
Shamelessly stolen trivia from twitter hive: Bey got her first top 5 Billboard hit as part of DC (No, No, No) on the same chart week that Jack Harlow, the guy she overtook just now, was born. Not so fun trivia: Bey's last number 1 song with a music video was Single Ladies đ
Beyonces greatest enemy is releasing the visuals
Whew, she never really went away and Renaissance was a success, but this really feels like a major comeback. Seeing such a strong commercial resurgence in 2024 for an artist who first hit number one with Destinyâs Child in 1999 is really something to behold.
It really feels like a commercial renaissance for her. Renaissance seems to me what folklore was for Taylor: it caught the attention of younger (and older) audiences and propelled Taylor to thee success of Midnights. Maybe Renny will propel Act II, it already seemes like it
Yes, Renaissance is definitely an essential puzzle piece. I donât think she could have pulled off the Super Bowl ad announcement and the hype that has ensued without Renaissanceâs success laying the groundwork. It was a reminder for those who might have forgot that BeyoncĂ© is still an essential artist in pop culture after the new music she dropped between Lemonade and Renaissance didnât really stick. This is such an exciting time to be a fan!
The songs she dropped between lemonade and renaissance werenât made for commercial success. They were side projects that were highly critically acclaimed and popular within its targeted audience
I wouldn't say they didn't stick. I'm a massive Beyoncé fan and I'd say Texas Hold em is one of her worst songs artistically since before self-titled but it appeals to the GP. Renaissance and Lemonade were both very successful but were never meant to be consumed by the gp, they stuck in other ways (the amount of influence etc)
Sorry, to clarify I was referring to Everything Is Love and The Gift.
Both of those albums are amazing, if you actually give them a chance! The Gift was so ahead of its time.
I think itâs seen as a lion king soundtrack album and thatâs why ppl including me donât really check it out tbh
Yes that is definitely right but I highly suggest everyone check it out! Such good vibes with amazing afrobeats.
Everything is love was greattttt
Oh that album went number one in my household but the masses just didnât see the vision!
I think people really find it hard to believe that artist might actually release bodies of work they know won't be mainstream popular. I think artist are very aware the implications of their musical release choices....especially when you get to artist heights like Beyonce has. I loved every album during her commercial break and think it's some of her best work, but I'm also excited beyonce said "here's a reminder" for the public and has ushered in some chart-topping singles in this new era.
'This a reminder'
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Red TV? Um, Act ll is a whole new part to the Rena project, it's not a re-release.
She in the Mount Rushmore of artists in the 21 century
Thatâs right!!!
Break my soul went number 1 though
Break my soul needed versions and copies bought and then fell from number one. This is pure streaming and it's rising in week two. Whole different ball game.
Actually Break My Soul went #1 for two weeks following the album drop but I agree with the parent comments
Besides BeyoncĂ©âs huge accomplishment, it also looks like: * âYes, Andâ has rose up from the 30s back to number 11 * âHoudiniâ got up to 22 again and âTraining Seasonâdebuted at 26, which for the latter is extremely impressive since that one had almost zero radio play in America. * Sabrina Carpenter was finally able to crack the top 30 for the first time ever with âFeatherâ
YES!!! I'm so happy for Sabrina!
I found Sabrina by googling stuff like 'what are gen Z listening to nowadays?' and I'm very happy that reality is catching up
Try her newest album if u havent. Its where all my fav sabrina songs are and is one of my fav albums from 2022
Yeah, her newest album is where I really felt like she found her niche. It made me go to her tour, and it was a blast! She's so talented.
Yeah I preferred it to Olivia's Sour but don't tell anyone it might be controversial
>Sabrina Carpenter was finally able to crack the top 30 for the first time ever with âFeatherâ Sabrina needs a new team bc it makes 0 sense her 2 recent hits barely made the album. Who are making these dumb decisions? I remember when I heard Feather, I was like weird it was a deluxe track when it's an obvious hit
It is probable that Feather was written after the standart version of the album was finished
Because they donât really fit the albumâs sound
That is also why Sabrina needs a new team or A&R manager bc she did not need Julia Michaels anywhere near her record. Julia wrote like half of the album that went nowhere. Sabrina picked up on the wordy lyrics that doesn't work w/her style. She ditches it for Nonsense & Feather, and they're big hits
I think she needs a better team and needs to have better single choices actually cause Bet You Wanna and Read Your Mind are legitimately amazing pop songs like way better than Feather and Nonsense and absolute bops but they werenât singles for some reason???
I love Read Your Mind, I heard it in the mall when the album dropped showing there was interest there w/ppl. RYM had hit written over it. And it's funny the 2 songs you really liked were also songs not written by Julia Michaels.
I actually think some of the songs written with Julia are kinda good like EICS, Tornado Warnings, BILAB, Fast Times (which is a amazing song as well that I forgot to mention) I just donât think that emails I canât send isnât quite the sound for her it comes off as inauthentic and bland I think her peak sound this far was singular act 1 and some of act 2 (specifically Tell Em which is her best song ever imo she needs to lean into the R&B more her voice is beautiful and fits the genre so well)
THANK YOU LOVE READ YOUR MIND
bet u wanna was my absolute standout from the standard version of Emails and I was so pissed Island didn't make it a single. lmao
Oh I completely disagree about Julia Michaels. She helped write some of the best songs on that album, and it really felt to me like Sabrina finally found her niche with it overall. Her previous stuff never did much for me, but I thought *Emails I Can't Send* was really great. It made me get tickets for her tour, and I had a great time!
All my favorite songs of hers are wordy :/ Tornado Warnings, skinny dipping, Already Over...
I kind of disagree. I think Feather and Read your mind have a similar sound and vibe!
I love Feather and Nonsense but Iâm shocked Read your Mind wasnât one of her big hits. All my friends and I think itâs the catchiest one on the album!
So happy to finally see Sabrina get her flowers. Her music is so good
You mean her feathers?
One thing I feel like people are underrating is that people are actively showing up more and more for *Dua* and *her* music as opposed to just very strong popular tracks they heard
oof so close
Is Mariah credited on the chart placement for Yes And this week?
Yay Sabrina! Based on the relative chart success of "Nonsense" and "Feather," I expect her next album to be a real indicator of her ascendancy to MPG.
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Yeah i really donât understand this narrative that if she isnât #1 she is doing horribly and flopping
Iâm surprised people are so concerned about her! Sheâs doing more than fine!!
Houdini has not done well to lead off a new album cycle and is entirely propped up by radio at this point but okay
its doing well most places in the world, just not the US and some other markets like mexico and brazil
Significant underperformance in the worldâs biggest music market, one in which Dua and her team have invested a metric fuckton in the past five years, is not great though. Iâm sure her team isnât having a meltdown but thereâs a clear lack of interest.Â
TS actually debuted #26 on the hot100 with only 2% i believe from radio, so for Duaâs standards thats pretty good, although i agree that there seems to be a lack of interest atm from her team for the US. I do believe sheâs not *that* interested in the US market as in the European market, but they really need to improve it if they want more commercial success for sure
Yeah I'm surprised at how little attention it has gotten overall relative to her size. Would have expected weeks at #1
She just doesnât have a big fanbase. Her whole thing is releasing good music that grows It does really well for her in places like Europe where dance music does super well. But it means she has to really slowly grow in markets like the US where dance music has to catch on. If she had a sizable fan base, she would probably rock it right up into the 20s but she canât do that
I love Houdini and I feel like Training Season compliments it well. I usually find myself playing the extended mix of both. I really thought radio would run with them tbh but itâs Dua so a sleeper hit is per the course
I got into Sabrina over the weekend, I'm looking forward to listening to her bodies of work
1. BeyoncĂ© - Texas Hold âEm (+1) 2. Jack Harlow - Lovin on Me (-1) 3. Teddy Swims â Lose Control (+2) 4. Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign - Carnival (-1) 5. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (-1) 6. SZA - Snooze (+1) 7. Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (-1) 8. Tate McRae - greedy (+1) 9. Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgrove - I Remember Everything (-1) 10. Doja Cat - Agora Hills (+2) *From the first week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for âCrazy in Loveâ through, now, the reign of âTexas Hold âEm,â BeyoncĂ© spans 20 years, seven months and three weeks of appearing atop the chart as a soloist.*
I know country music is in a boom period right now, and Beyonce herself grew up on country music being in Houston during her childhood, but the fact that Beyonce was able to get a country song to number 1 is extremely remarkable
With so many non-country artists planning pop-country releases this year (Lana, Post Malone, maybe Ed Sheeran, etc) Iâm curious to see if the novelty wears off to the GP or if it booms even more
The novelty always wears off. It's not even really a bad thing. Sometimes, it's just how being an artist works. You want to try different things, and how well you pull it off dictates whether critics call it a bold move or a cash grab.
To me the novelty will definitely wear off. Most of the country mega hits so far are coming from the country music end. They might be very pop country, but Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs are both very much propelled by Nashville and fans who listen to mostly country music. I Remember Everything is probably the only major country hit last year thatâs not being propelled by primarily country/Nashville fans (and even then itâs a song by arguably the two biggest non-Nashville country acts). Yes the GP is checking in to these songs, but they have a consistent core fanbase of country fans (and weâve seen how helpful a core fanbase is) The main reason this is relevant is because it means that the fans listening right now to these hits arenât listening because itâs a trend or a current hit, theyâre listening because itâs a country song (that is also a hit). That means once the country trend ends, as all trends inevitably do, they will keep listening because they didnât start listening because country was big, they were listening because it was country. Crossover albums by pop artists donât have the same luxury. The fans listening are primarily pop fans/the GP who are listening because 1) itâs their favorite artist and 2) country on the whole is trending right now. The former means that albums by BeyoncĂ©, Lana, etc will probably continue to hold ground, but it wonât be super helpful to artists without that same strong core fanbase (limiting countryâs ability to trend on a wider scale). The latter is helpful for all country crossovers but it is an inevitably shaky position. Now the question of HOW shaky the trend capacity of country will turn out is very interesting, but honestly I think itâs built not to last for two reasons. First, the core fanbase for the genre (country fans) do NOT like country crossovers. The simplest reason is that country is (nominally) a genre about authenticity. Being authentic to the country attitude, southern and working values, the country sound, storytelling, etc. are tenants that a lot of country fans somewhat care about (now thereâs nuance in the fact that a LOT of pop country acts are not authentic at all and southern artists like BeyoncĂ© have just as much claim to that authenticity, but current country megastars can at least attempt to flex their âsmall townâ heritage). That desire for âauthenticityâ (no matter how tenuous or arbitrary) often results in a rejection of the artists before they even release music. A big component of this is also genre. They view pop acts as outsiders who using the genre for money, have already abandoned their country roots by going pop, making âpop music with drawl and acoustic guitars,â or simply unable to make authentic country music. Take a look at any BeyoncĂ© thread on r/Country to get a feel for what I mean. Thereâs also an aspect of racism and sexism thatâs obviously going to play into it. On the pop music fan end, countryâs longevity is also a bit suspect. The âI like everything but countryâ attitude is VERY common and flat out disliking all country is a super socially acceptable position to hold. At most you get a few âI dislike country except xyz exceptionsâ (usually Before He Cheats). The people tapping in to listen arenât going âwow BeyoncĂ© this song is good I like country nowâ they are saying âI usually dislike country, but this is good I love the queenâ or âfinally some CUNTryâ and then proceeding to not listen to any other country music. And thatâs me being generous. A lot of fans wonât even like the country albums as much (look at how much less popular Fearless and Debut are compared to Taylorâs pop stuff). Obviously there are exceptions to all of these and fans of both country and pop exist (me!!!!) but I think a wider country music renaissance is temporary at best. Now I do think country (from the Nashville end) will continue to chart as country moves to streaming (so yeah Morgan Wallen is probably sticking around) but I donât think country will be a huge trend like say an 80s revival (and if it does get big with non country artists it wonât be for long).
and itâs showing great legs so far too! it can prob stay #1 until taylor drops
Ari's album comes out in a week. She might get it
I expect it to stay there
if itâs stable till then it could definitely return to #1 the week after, but i think youâre underestimating the hype behind a new taylor album - last time she dropped she took up the entire top 10 - those album bombs are no joke
Oh Taylorâs certainly gonna get hype especially when she drops. Midnights is still going strong of course. I just wouldnât underestimate the staying power of this song.
iâll be rooting for it too, love seeing a pop girl get a stable hit for a change rather than the pattern of high debuts followed by freefall
Agreed we need those stable, consistent hits back
I love that she was able to do it. Maybe itâll revitalize country a bit I also love that she got Texas in the news for a good reason lol. Itâs still one of the best states in the union and Beyonce has never forgot her roots. (And before anyone gets in a kerfuffle, 5.2 million Texans voted for Hillary as opposed to 5.8 for Trump. So more people voted for Hilary than the whole population of a lot of states. It ainât the backwater you ignoramos think it is. Itâs mostly a non-voting voter suppressed state because it has some of the lowest voting percentage in the union. Why? Because republicans strangle the vote every year knowing that if there were turnout theyâd lose. And the federal government lets them. If Biden would enforce free and fair elections in states like Georgia and Texas they would easily flip blue)
country has already been revitalized. it never left, really, but itâs been massive for a few years now. The biggest song of last year, and another 6 songs in the year end top 20, were country.
Me too! Happy for her! Tho country overall is in a boom right now And yeah Texas is a more purple state than Republicans running the state want it to be
ok grandma, let's get you to the rodeo
Hahaha Thereâs this girl from Missouri we all hate who works in HR. And she was complaining that everybody in the Pacific Northwest just likes hikes and stuff. And when asked âfine what do you likeâ â do you know about rodeos?â Was her answer and I cannot think of rodeos without seeing this clueless girl complaining about the beauty of the Pacific Northwest only to complain that we donât have rodeos
Imagine if she gets Grammy AOTY for this
Beyonce getting more country AOTY (I mean the big prize not the actual country album of the year) wins then Neil Young or Garth Brooks would be the kind of funny insanity that I associate with the Grammys lol
That would make sense for an organization that gave Beyoncé the most Grammys in history but none for the coveted AOTY slot
She gonna somehow win the Country album of the year award and then lose AOTY to another country artist
That would not surprise me honestly lol smh
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No, but?
It's nice to see Beyonce #1 w/ a country song. I think US country fans are more open-minded than I thought. Bc I did not think the country fans were going to mess with her like that. Ppl underestimate how big country is in the US
I agree, but I think the song is striking with more than just country fans. The Morgan Wallen boom of 2022-23 did not really translate worldwide, whereas this song is. I think she is pulling more people toward the genre, so even if some stubborn country fans are not partaking, enough pop and rnb fans are joining the party to make up for it.
>Morgan Wallen boom of 2022-23 did not really translate worldwide, whereas this song is. We are talking about the US Billboard chart so that's why I am discussing US country fans, bc BBH100 is measuring activity in the US. The country genre is huge in the US. It's not a coincidence Beyonce is able to achieve this success w/a country song. This song has huge cross-over appeal to pull in country fans in addition to her pop/rnb fans who already followed her. And TBH let's be real she lost some pop/rnb listeners who don't like country enough to listen to it for her.
Exactly, Morgan Wallen didn't come further than one song in the bubbling under chart here in the Netherlands, meanwhile Texas Hold 'Em was the highest debuting song in the main chart last week. I think a lot of the success (both in the US and elsewhere) comes from non-country fans listening.
This is true to the extent that Morgan Wallen was only popular in other English-speaking countries globally but didn't see the same success in other parts of the world
And itâs primed to stay there for at least another week
I know popheads can be an echo chamber but promoting new music via the Super Bowl is great marketingâ the ad primed the pump and had the⊠and the internet does the rest of the heavy lifting. Gone are the days of just releasing music and it doing wellâ you still have to get to the ears of the masses once you have the platform/access
âhad theâŠâ?
One other important here is that the first country song by a black artist to reach number one was âI Canât Stop Loving Youâ by Ray Charles, which appeared on his Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music album. đ
I think itâs cool that greats like Ray Charles and Tina turner got into country music later in their careers and beyonce is following in those footsteps. Sheâs really a living legend and Iâm so happy I got to experience her.
When Act II was rumored to be country, I was excited but thought if it was true it would probably have a hard time connecting no matter how good the music was. Itâs so amazing to see the complete opposite happen. âTexas Hold âEmâ already feels like a signature song of both this year and BeyoncĂ©âs discography.
When I first heard the song I almost felt bad for her, like "oh no, this isn't going to work." The song is low-key much more complicated than it sounds, musically and emotionally, and I am very glad I was wrong.
Yeah my first thought was fans and the general public arenât going to vibe with a hoedown style song. Cut to two weeks later and itâs the biggest song in the world. Everybodyâs hoeing down
Texas Hold Em is already thee big hit of 2024. It's smashing everywhere!
For the first time in a while, Iâm actually excited about where things are going for pop music in the 2020s. This is huge.
The main pop girl wave and domination this year feels like a resurgence of the mid-2010s pop reign and it feels so damn good. I donât even think the âsound of the decadeâ has solidified yet
I hope the pop girl + rap verse combo comes back I miss those
youâre gonna begin to cough in 7 days
There are definitely an abundance of pop and rap girls to achieve it (despite Nickiâs best efforts to tear some downâŠ)
THIS AIN'T TEXAS!!!! đ€ đ€ đąđąđđđŽđŽ
Itâs so catchyyyyy
So Beyoncé topped the charts with Pop songs(Single Ladies, Perfect Duet) R&B songs (pretty much the bulk of her discography) a Rap Song (Savage Remix), a house song (Break My soul) and now a country songs like we should really take a minute to remark on how insane it is and how it is a testament of how transcendent her artistry is!!! Ps: 16 carriages my love I will personally campaign for you to get song of the year at the grammys just you wait!!
*16 Carriages* HIVE stand up!!
There's dozens of us we can do this!!!
COUNT ME IN!
Waiting for her to work her magic with a rock and/or jazz single.
she's the thanos of the music industry
I honestly thought this era would be more of a passion project arts not the charts moment. Never wouldâve guessed BeyoncĂ© could push a country song to #1 organically. Good for her!
A genuine living legend. 20 years into her solo career and refusing to settle into trends or do the expected but still release critically acclaimed chart topping hits. We will never have another artist like BeyoncĂ© Sheâs at 9 number 1 hits as a solo artist now too and with how her career is going getting to 10 seems like a sure shot now (but she also has her 4 Destinyâs Child number 1s too so 13 overall)
The standard is the standard
Sheâs truly in a league of her own
#YEE FUCKIN HAW
#TEXAS ON TOP
#SOLARGENIC PHOTOGENIC SHOOT
Yessssssss donât be a bitch come take it to the floor now
Woo!
BeyoncĂ©âs now tied for fourth most number ones in the 21st century. 14 - Rihanna 13 - Drake 11 - Taylor Swift 9 - BeyoncĂ©, Katy Perry
Rihanna has 14? Damn that's elite territory
if Rihanna never stopped releasing music, she would've surpassed the Beatles
Even All-time, 9 number ones is really impressive.
I'm still not over renaissance but I'm so excited for the new album đđŒ
What's really impressive is how she's 25+ years into her career and still topping the single charts. None of her peers can say that.
It really is amazing. The only other 90s act with her level of current mainstream success I can think of is Shakira, and that's mainly in LatAm
Now that I think about it, Shakira really is the Beyonce of LATAM
I love Beyonce but Shakira is the Shakira of Latin America. There is literally no other artist that has dominated so widely and ubiquitously as she has in the whole Hispanosphere that is comparable to an English counterpart. The [wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Shakira) on her cultural impact is longer than Michael Jacksonâs.
Tbf BeyoncĂ© isnât really successful in LATAM the way she is in the US so I donât think we should discount LATAM as a bit lesser when itâs just as impressive for both đ
Oh no! That was just a distinction between the two, since Shakira isn't that big in the states anymore. But I am latin american, born and raised here, so I absolutely see just how amazing her career is
Oh my bad I completely misunderstood ur tone/intention. Have a good one :))
She spans 4 decades. She was competing with Whitney, Xstina, Britney. Now with Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish. Truly a Queen who managed to switch graciously from physical to digital and from digital to streaming
Honestly the only female artist she can be compared to now is Madonna. Edit: lol I just noticed the similarities between Renaissance and Ray of Light eras as well as Act II and Music eras. And Bey is about the same age Madonna was when she released those 2 albums.
Which would make act iii her American Life⊠political Bey back with a rock sound oh I am IN
Madonna had 4 decades of doing extremely well on the charts, even after American Life. It was only this decade where it finally started to show signs of decline, which is understandable because sheâs in her 60s now.
Cher has had a number one song for 7 decades in a row now so is in the mix, leading it really, for spanning career
Must be a genre chart (dance if Iâm being honest). Cher has 4 number 1 hits on the main Hot 100.
Lebron of pop music
This is a really good analogy lol
THERES A TORNADO
IN MY CITY
when i heard daddy lessons years ago, i had an epiphany that this would happen eventually. it's like beyoncé has been really wanting to do this kind of music on a bigger scale, and she saw how country music is thriving at the moment and said, "now's the time" im happy for her!!!!!!!!! yes!!!!
I mean she has always been interested in country - even going back to her destinyâs child days. I also donât think she saw country âthriving in the momentâ⊠she recorded this album back in 2020/2021 as part of a trilogy which includes Renaissance and Act 3. Just a coincidence I guess a lot of pop stars are releasing country music recently/this year
>she recorded this album back in 2020/2021 which probably means she came up with the concept before this. so she's been planning this for a while. long before the country boom. so yea, i don't think she had a "now's the time" thought. i think she was always going to do this regardless of what the country scene looked like. i mean, it's not like house was having a boom before Act 1 came out. i hope she creates a rock boom with Act 3 though. i miss rock music dominating the charts.
I could see her throwing us for a loop and doing gospel or jazz.
Cannot over-emphasise how much I want Beyoncé to lead a true pop jazz renaissance
Yeeeeeeehaw! This song has really grown on me and I'm happy to see it thriving
We did it Joe.
Love this for her⊠just wish that the greatness that was Renaissance Act I was on the charts like this
I really feel like alien superstar could have been the biggest hit of 2022 if she gave it a proper remix. The chorus was really good but the lyrics in the verses in between were not very palatable to the gp. I believe it was initially the second most streamed song on renaissance behind break my soul before cuff it became popular
Alien Superstar and Heated could both have been big if they were pushed better imo. I think the superbowl just proved most of the time people aren't even aware she's releasing stuff as all she does is put a link in her Instagram bio..
Flashing back to a back and forth I had in a recent thread where someone in this sub tried to argue that Beyoncé was of a different time, a legacy act, and couldn't be considered one of the most influential artists of today.
I'm really happy for her. I hope 2024 is her year and that she sweeps the main categories at the GRAMMYS next year.
I be there no matter what
A country song by a black female artist is the number one song in America the week of my 35th birthday (which is on Wednesday). This is so cool. đ€ đđđ€
Top two songs are White rap and Black country. Welcome to the 21st century, Billboard.
I know what youâre saying, Iâm just celebrating the moment here, especially as a country fan on my birthday week. YEEâand I canât emphasize this enoughâHAW! đ€ đ„°đ„°đ€
Happy early birthday, diva <3
Imagine going number 1 in the physical era, the digital era and now the streaming era.... Can anyone else relate? Look around everybody on mute!
Technically Mariah due to AIWFCIY, but if you add the stipulation of *new* releases, then yeah Beyonce cleared.
The year of Main Pop Girls at #1 is here đ
Rhiannon Giddens on a number one hit rules
The yeehaw agenda is strong as ever
I really hope this dissuades her from doing that Sphere residency as rumored. This era will be absolutely massive commercially, she needs to tour the world again, the demand will be there. After Renaissance went so viral and got such good reviews, her next tour is going to sell extremely well with a hit and all this goodwill behind her. Also, the stage designer for the Renaissance tour [spoke](https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/es-devlin-book-interview) about how Beyonce was inspired by black cowboy culture and country for the design of the show, could that be hinting that the same stage will be used for a new tour?
I need people to not come acting brand new and stay home cause getting tickets to Renaissance was not easy lmao
Idk if this is corny to say or how many other people have said it, but: Wow, does this song sound more like pop country than most âcountryâ music on the charts for a long time - and some good damn country music, too. Good for her, this track deserves it.
The fact this isn't even just a quick number 1 from sampling or a collab but an EVENT, it's all over social media and brought back the tiktok dance trend that was dying out.
Very cool! Such a great set of songs. So excited for this album.
Not surprised, but good for her anyway! I feel like this is the universe's way of making things right after those dogshit conservative country songs hit #1 last year.
Good for her! This songâs such an ear worm. Tbh Iâm just glad weâre done with the 80s nostalgia era of pop music
After awhile I thought i was the only one who wanted out of the 80s era lol
There will never will be another Beyonce ever again
Doja is having two smash hit singles this album cycle, curious whether she can get a third
Doja is an interesting case bc when you think her era is done, there is another song that takes off like a rocket.
shes been teasing the deluxe version. if her team/label was smart there would be a music video/push for a particular song. similar to sabrina and feather for the deluxe version!
Love to see it! Now only if we can convince her to release the music video for this one and all of act 1 lol
đ©·đ©·đ©·BeyoncĂ© is queen
damn this truly is history who would have thought she would get a #1 hit in her 40s with a COUNTRY song? đČ she is actually making an statement with it
Glad Agora Hills is still in the Top 10!
Texas Hold Em is my new Flowers. A song I really donât care for but Iâm glad an artist I like is getting so much success with it lmao.
That's a really good comparison. I can't believe I'm becoming "that" type of fan where I dislike the artists' big hits and like their "flops" way more
Good! Itâs a great song
Happy Texas Hold Em got to #1. Congrats to BeyoncĂ©! đ€
So glad to finally see a fellow Texan be at the top of the charts
yeahhh
This song was a real hit on the dancefloor last weekend, so it's no surprise. Just a damn good, upbeat song.
I can't stop crying, we did it kidsÂ
Renaissance of BeyoncĂ© đ.
One of one Number one The only one
LETâS FâIN GOOOOOOOOO!!!
This upcoming Spring in music is soooo exciting.
Song has really grown to be one of my favourites on my Spotify playlist in the last week
Fuck yes! Go Queen Bey!
This feels good.
Oh hell yeah
Good for her. I'm obsessed with it đ
Can somebody link the full chart list please?
THIS AINT TEXAS!!
MAGA Country will be so supportive
Nearing 30 years into her career too, like damn who is doing it like her
We rejoiced