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Beyoncé Becomes First Black Woman to Nab Number One Country Album With ‘Cowboy Carter’
Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' has become the first album from a Black woman to top the Country Albums chart; it also debuted at Number One on the Top 200.
The record comes more than a month after Beyoncé became the first Black woman with a Number One country single for "Texas Hold 'Em" Beyoncé dethroned Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At a Time for the Country crown, while beating out Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You on the Top Album list. While several Black artists such as Charlie Pride, Darius Rucker, and Kane Brown have topped the Country Albums chart over the decades, until now, no Black woman had ever achieved the feat, speaking both to Beyoncé’s range as a superstar artist as well as to the diversity issues that remain within the genre.
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