Beyoncé‘s nation single “Texas Maintain ‘Em” continues to choose up steam because it has now topped Billboard’s International 200 to mark her first-ever No. 1 on the chart.
The tally, which was launched in September 2020, ranks songs based mostly on streaming and gross sales exercise from greater than 200 territories all over the world. After debuting on the chart at No. 4 final week, “Texas Maintain ‘Em” has jumped up an extra three spots in its second week with 59.6 million streams and 43,000 gross sales items, based on a Billboard report on Monday (February 26).
The information arrives only one week after Bey formally grew to become the primary Black lady to succeed in No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching Nation Songs chart with the identical observe.
The publication revealed final week that each the aforementioned observe and her different new single “16 Carriages” made for her first two entries on the chart, with the latter debuting at No. 9.
Each songs had been launched as a shock in early February after Queen B introduced in a Verizon business throughout Tremendous Bowl LVIII. She additionally revealed the songs will likely be part of her forthcoming album, Renaissance: act ii, due out March 29.
The shock drop confirmed fan speculations about Beyoncé hinting at a rustic launch, although they had been largely piecing collectively crumbs.
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Her followers cited issues like Bey’s country-inspired take a look at the 2024 Grammy Awards as properly a lyric on her 2019 single “Black Parade” — “I’m going again to the South, the place my roots ain’t watered down” — as potential proof that Act II could be a rustic LP.
One factor that had been confirmed prior to now, nonetheless, was that 2022’s Renaissance album could be the primary installment of a trilogy.
Moreover, New York Occasions reporter Kyle Buchanan wrote in a since-deleted tweet final 12 months that Act II could be an “acoustic album” and Act III could be a collaboration with JAY-Z. This was neither confirmed nor denied from Bey’s camp.
Days after the 2 nation songs’ launch, “Texas Maintain Em” grew to become Beyoncé’s first entry on Billboard’s Nation Airplay chart. In accordance with Billboard, the track debuted at “No. 54 with 1.1 million in viewers through 100 stations on the format within the monitoring week ending Feb. 15.”
