"Renaissance" allows Beyoncé to break a new record

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The singer's new album is not only a success in the charts, but it also and above all allowed her to break a record.

With her seventh solo opus ranked number 1 in the Billboard 200 ranking, which lists the most popular albums, the star becomes the first woman to have ranked her first 7 albums at the highest step of the podium!

A feat that does not happen alone, since with 332,000 “album equivalents” sold (the unit used by Billboard to calculate the popularity of an album including streaming), Beyoncé obtained the best start for an album released by a woman in 2022 (the only artist to have done better is Harry Styles, with

, which sold 521,000 copies).

That the beginning

And

may only be at the start of her ascent: Beyoncé's last solo opus,

, had also exploded the counters, allowing the artist to place the 12 tracks of the album in the ranking. Hot 100 of the most listened titles (again, she is the first female artist to have so many titles in the ranking at the same time).

Especially since the future of the

project is, if we are to believe the star herself, only at the very beginning: the album released on July 29 is indeed subtitled "Act I". , the first act of what could be a trilogy of albums.

“Creating this album allowed me to dream and escape during a scary time for the world.

It allowed me to feel free and adventurous at a time when little was happening,” the star explained on her website when the album was released.

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