JAY-Z and Beyoncé’s daughter Rumi Carter has broken her own sister Blue Ivy’s chart record.
“Protector,” the mother-daughter collaboration from Bey’s Cowboy Carter album, debuted at No. 42 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 as material from the aforementioned project flooded the chart.
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As a result, Rumi is now the youngest ever female artist to appear on the Hot 100 at six years and nine months old.
She eclipses big sis Blue Ivy, who previously broke the record aged 7 when “Brown Skin Girl,” her Lion King: The Gift collaboration with Beyoncé, landed on the chart in 2019.
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However, as Billboard pointed out, Blue Ivy still remains the youngest artist to appear on any Billboard chart thanks to her cameo on dad JAY-Z’s “Glory” in 2012 (under the name “B.I.C.”).
That song, released just days after she was born, peaked at No. 23 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and No. 63 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Rumi Carter makes history as the youngest female artist to ever debut on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing her sister Blue Ivy. pic.twitter.com/247yoX2Wjf
— chart data (@chartdata) April 8, 2024
Rumi appears at the beginning of “Protector,” the fourth song on Beyoncé’s 27-track Cowboy Carter, and sweetly asks: “Mom, can I hear the lullaby please?”
A tender acoustic ballad, the song is about Bey’s love of her children and features lyrics such as: “I will lead you down that road if you lose your way/ Born to be a protector/ Even though I know someday you’re gonna shine on your own/ I will be your projector.”
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The heartfelt song immediately stirred an emotional response from fans following Cowboy Carter‘s release in late March.
One person wrote on social media: “k but Beyoncé wait because I wasn’t ready for PROTECTOR” alongside a gif of Dua Lipa crying.
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Another said: “PROTECTOR IS A MASTERPIECE OH BEYONCÉ I’M WEEPING” while sharing an equally emotional gif.
Rumi isn’t the only member of the Carter family who is celebrating a new chart milestone this week.
Beyoncé became the latest artist to reach at least 100 career entries on the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to her recently released LP, which logged 23 songs on this week’s chart.
She is now just the 17th artist, and only the third woman, to achieve the feat since the Hot 100 launched in 1958.
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Former chart-topped “Texas Hold ‘Em” leads the pack at No. 2, followed by “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus at No. 6 and Bey’s cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” at No. 7.
10 other songs from the album also cracked the top 50 including the Post Malone collaboration “Levii’s Jeans,” “Bodyguard” and The Beatles cover “Blackbird.”
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Cowboy Carter itself debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 407,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, the highest sales tally of the year so far.
