Beyoncé is probably not what some nation music followers are used to witnessing throughout the style, however it’s clear that she is coming to point out and show that she belongs within the enviornment. The Houston famous person noticed her new single “Texas Maintain ‘Em” attain No. 1 on Billboard‘s Sizzling Nation Songs chart and it seems she’s made historical past alongside the way in which.
Beyoncé turned the primary Black lady to ever go No. 1 on the Sizzling Nation Songs chart with “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” a single from her upcoming album, tentatively titled Act II which will likely be a followup to 2022’s Act I: Renaissance. Together with the Sizzling Nation Songs honors, “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and one other Act II single, “16 Carriages,” debuted at No. 2 and No. 38 respectively on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
Viewers of Tremendous Bowl LVIII have been handled to the announcement of the singles and musical route of Queen Bey by the use of a Verizon industrial, so many knew what to anticipate. Nonetheless, the shift in sound is evidently a welcome one and a part of a rising pattern in nation music of Black creators getting their shine inside an area that usually was not one many felt included in.
Including to this, Beyoncé going No. 1 with “Texas Maintain ‘Em” locations her in uncommon air as she as soon as sat on the high of seven of Billboard’s music charts within the soloist capability which embody Sizzling 100, Sizzling Nation Songs, Sizzling Dance/Digital Songs, Sizzling Gospel Songs, Sizzling Latin Songs, Sizzling R&B Songs and Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
Additional, Beyoncé made historical past but once more by changing into the primary lady to high the Sizzling Nation Songs and Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, becoming a member of the likes of Justin Bieber, Ray Charles, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Morgan Wallen.
Act II is slated for a March 29 launch.
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