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Beyoncé’s Country Music Song ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ Just Gave Her a Ninth Solo Number One
Beyoncé scored her ninth Hot 100 Number One as a solo artist with "Texas Hold 'Em" marking a smash hit for the singer's pivot into country.
“Texas Hold ‘Em” dethroned Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me,” which had spent much of 2024 at Number One — save for Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at the start of the new year and for the debuts of Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss.” Until last year, when Luke Combs scored a hit covering Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” no Black woman had ever been the sole writer on a Number One country song. Bey’s country shift could give more attention to other Black women in country as well: as Billboard reported last wee k, several other Black women in the genre, including Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell, and Rhiannon Giddens (who played on “Texas Hold ‘Em”) saw notable bumps in their catalog consumption since Beyoncé’s songs came out.
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