Beyoncé‘s “Texas Hold ‘Em” has reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart two weeks after the track’s release, and the Queen Bey has recently celebrated two more career milestones as well.
Chart Data is reporting that as of Friday (March 1), Beyoncé has broken the record for the most unique chart airplay appearances for any female artist — breaking the record previously held by Mariah Carey.
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According to the outlet, she has now had songs appear on 18 different airplay charts including those most might expect: Adult Contemporary, Adult Pop Airplay, Adult R&B Airplay, Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Rap Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay.
Beyoncé has also had songs appear on the Country Airplay, Dance/Mix Show Airplay, Gospel Airplay, Latin Airplay, and Smooth Jazz Airplay charts to name a few. Chart Data has also confirmed that “Texas Hold ‘Em” has officially surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify, becoming the singer’s fastest song to reach the milestone.
In addition to all of these new career benchmarks, last week “Texas Hold ‘Em” also became Beyoncé’s first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 Chart.
The tally, which was launched in September 2020, ranks songs based on streaming and sales activity from more than 200 territories around the world. After debuting on the chart at No. 4 in its first week of release, “Texas Hold ‘Em” jumped up an additional three spots in its second week with 59.6 million streams and 43,000 sales units, according to a Billboard report February 26.
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The news arrived just one week after Bey officially became the first Black woman to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with the same track.
The publication revealed on February 20 that both the aforementioned track and her other new single “16 Carriages” made for her first two entries on the chart, with the latter debuting at No. 9.
Both songs were released as a surprise in early February after Queen B announced them in a Verizon commercial during Super Bowl LVIII. She also revealed the songs will be a part of her forthcoming album, Renaissance: Act II, due out March 29.
The surprise drop confirmed fan speculations about Beyoncé hinting at a country release, though they were mostly piecing together crumbs.
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One thing that had been confirmed in the past, however, was that 2022’s Renaissance album would be the first installment of a trilogy.
