Beyoncé ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ Outselling Competition

by Jeroslyn JoVonn

March 5, 2024

Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ‘Em” is dominating the Billboard 100 for a second week in a row with no indicators of slowing down.

Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ‘Em” is dominating the Billboard 100 for a second week in a row with no indicators of slowing down.

Not solely is Bey’s nation hit holding down the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Digital Tune Gross sales chart, however the competitors is nowhere close to beating her out. This week, “Texas Maintain ‘Em” bought one other 28,920 copies, with the No. 2 music Teddy Swims’ “Lose Management” solely promoting 7,801 copies, Forbes reported.

Benson Boone’s “Lovely Issues” got here in at No. 3 with 7,076 copies bought, Jung Kook’s “Standing Subsequent to You” took the No. 4 spot with 6,535 copies, and Ariana Grande’s “Sure, And?” holds the No. 5 spot with 6,534 copies. The numbers replicate Beyoncé’s dominance together with her twelfth No. 1 on the Digital Tune Gross sales chart and thirteenth No. 1 music debut on Billboard’s Sizzling 100.

The music was launched following Bey’s Tremendous Bowl business with Verizon the place she ended the 60-second spot with a tease to “Drop the brand new music.” What adopted was two nation songs consisting of “Texas Maintain ‘Em” and “16 Carriages.”

The musical releases come as a part of Beyoncé asserting her new album Renaissance: Act II coming March 29. The nation songs confirmed fan hypothesis that after dedicating “Act I” to the home music style, Queen Bey could be taking a rustic route for her second of the three-part installment.

Her new nation songs helped her make historical past as the primary Black lady to high Billboard’s Sizzling Nation Songs chart with “Texas Maintain ‘Em” debuting at No. 1 and “16 Carriages” coming in at No. 9. Earlier than the success of “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” no Black lady, or feminine recognized to be biracial, ever topped the Sizzling Nation Songs chart.

The success of the music follows Tracy Chapman turning into the primary Black lady to solely write a Nation Airplay No. 1, with Luke Combs’ 2023 cowl of her 1988 basic “Quick Automotive” that reached the highest spot final July. Beyoncé additionally makes historical past as the primary lady to high each Sizzling Nation Songs and Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the reason that music charts’ inception in October 1958. Bey joins Morgan Wallen, Justin Bieber, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Ray Charles as the one musical acts to have led each charts.

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