Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” album will be a blockbuster smash this week.
On Friday alone, the country-fied album sold 130,000 copies including streaming. If that kept up for seven days, just think of the results.
Spotify says the album had 76 million streams on Friday. So the total above also includes Apple, Amazon, etc.
There are still no credits listed on Beyonce’s website, and nothing the Sony publicists can hand out. No one seems to know who wrote what beyond “Jolene” — by Dolly Parton — and “Blackbird” by the Beatles.
After I wrote that “Blackbird” was attributed to Lennon, McCartney, and Knowles Carter on Wikipedia, the entry was changed back to Lennon-McCartney only.
“Blackbird” was never a single from the 1968 Beatles “White Album.” It’s always been an album track. So its presence at number 4 on iTunes is pretty swell. Right now, Beyonce has the top 4 tracks on iTunes and a dozen or more titles scattered through the top 100.
One track I really like is “Protector,” sung with Beyonce’s daughter, Rumi. I hope we can credits and lyrics this week on that one and all the others.
Everyone is praising how this album has changed everything for Black country artists. But you do know Charley Pride was a superstar. And I told you about the album, “Rhythm, Country and Blues.” Has everyone forgotten Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”? It caused quite a commotion when it was released.
Short memories help sales!
