{"id":41677,"date":"2024-02-21T23:10:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41677"},"modified":"2024-02-21T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:10:36","slug":"beyonce-becomes-the-first-black-woman-to-top-billboard-country-music-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/02\/21\/beyonce-becomes-the-first-black-woman-to-top-billboard-country-music-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 becomes the first Black woman to top Billboard country music chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyonc\u00e9 made history once again: The&nbsp;<strong>superstar singer<\/strong>&nbsp;has become the first Black woman to top Billboard\u2019s country music chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single \u201cTexas Hold&nbsp;\u2018Em\u201d&nbsp;reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart this week. She dropped the song on Feb. 11 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>during the Super Bowl<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 along with her other single&nbsp;\u201c16 Carriages,\u201d which debuted at No. 9 on the same chart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both songs are expected to be featured on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s upcoming, country-themed album, which is referred to as \u201cact ii,\u201d&nbsp;on March 29. It\u2019s a follow-up offering to her 2022 album \u201cRenaissance,\u201d&nbsp;which is frequently referred to as \u201cAct I: Renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyonc\u00e9 announced the full-length new album after a Verizon commercial she starred in aired during the&nbsp;<strong>Super Bowl<\/strong>&nbsp;this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyonc\u00e9 is also the first woman to claim the top spot on the Hot Country Songs and Hot R&amp;B\/Hip-Hop Songs charts since both began in 1958, according to Billboard. The only other acts who have topped both include Justin Bieber, Billy Ray Cyrus and Ray Charles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9 made history once again: The&nbsp;superstar singer&nbsp;has become the first Black woman to top Billboard\u2019s country music chart. The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single \u201cTexas Hold&nbsp;\u2018Em\u201d&nbsp;reached No. 1 on the country airplay chart this week. She dropped the song on Feb. 11 \u2014&nbsp;during the Super Bowl&nbsp;\u2014 along with her other single&nbsp;\u201c16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[11974,9493,10282,2913,6573,7355,9478,3270,7647,8923,7141,5058,11900,7590,6838,9512,5355,544,5273,594],"class_list":["post-41677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-album","tag-beyonce-2","tag-billboard","tag-billy-ray-cyrus","tag-black","tag-black-woman","tag-dropped","tag-grammy","tag-grammy-winner","tag-justin","tag-justin-bieber","tag-music","tag-new-album","tag-renaissance","tag-singer","tag-super-bowl","tag-texas","tag-verizon","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41679,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions\/41679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}