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Renaissance has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 332k in sales. Of Renaissance’s 332,000 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 190,000; SEA units comprise 138,000 (equaling 179.06 million on-demand official streams of the set’s tracks), and TEA units comprise 4,000.

Renaissance logs the largest streaming week for an album by a woman in 2022 by on-demand official streams earned, with 179.06 million. It’s also the seventh-biggest streaming debut among all albums in 2022, and Beyoncé’s largest streaming week ever. 

In terms of traditional album sales, with 190,000 sold, Renaissance posts the third-largest sales week for an album in 2022, and the biggest by a woman. The only bigger sales weeks so far this year were captured by the opening stanzas of Harry’s House (330,000) and BTS’ Proof (266,000).

Renaissance sold 121,000 copies on CD, 43,000 via digital downloads and 26,000 on vinyl.

Renaissance’s initial album sales figure is largely driven by direct-to-consumer sales of the album through internet retailers, with 72% of its first-week sales coming through web-based sellers (136,000 of 190,000). Those sellers included Beyoncé’s official webstore (where she sold four limited edition deluxe boxed set editions of the album containing a T-shirt and a CD – all of which are sold out).

Beyoncé’s webstore was also the exclusive seller in the tracking week of the album’s vinyl LP, which had a limited pressing and an alternative cover and sold 26,000 copies. That marks the largest sales week for an R&B/hip-hop album on vinyl by a woman in the modern era, since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991. The vinyl LP sold out on Beyoncé’s webstore before the album’s release on July 29. On Sept. 16, the album will garner a wide release on vinyl through all retailers, with expanded packaging and its standard album cover.

While Renaissance’s internet-based sales were hefty, the album would have still been No. 1 on the Billboard 200 without any sales from internet sellers. Further, the set would have been No. 1 without selling a single copy, as it still would have perched atop the list from only streaming activity (with streaming equaling 138,000 SEA units).

Finally, as noted earlier, Renaissance is the first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 by a solo woman since Adele’s 30.

International Success

By its second day of release, Renaissance was outselling the rest of the week’s top five best-selling albums combined in the UK. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Beyoncé fourth album to do so as a solo act, and her fifth including Destiny’s Child. The album also debuted at number one on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. It had outsold its nearest rival Harry Styles’ album Harry’s House by 3:1. In Ireland, Renaissance debuted atop the Irish Albums Chart, becoming Beyoncé’s fifth number one album in the country. Simultaneously, “Break My Soul” also peaked at number one on the Irish Singles Chart, allowing Beyoncé to score an Irish Chart Double. In France, Renaissance debuted at number one on the SNEP albums chart, becoming Beyoncé’s first number one album and her fourth top ten album in the country. Previously, 4 was Beyoncé’s highest-charting album in the country, peaking at number two in 2011. Additionally, the album was the first album by a female artist to top the chart in 2022.

#1 Song To Match

Along with a #1 album, Beyonce tops the Billboard Hot 100, with Renaissance’s lead single, “Break My Soul”.

“Break My Soul,” released on Parkwood/Columbia Records, becomes the 1,140th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s 64-year history.

Airplay, sales & streams: “Soul” drew 61.7 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 8%) and 18.9 million streams (up 114%) and sold 13,000 downloads (up 113%) in the July 29-Aug. 4 tracking week, according to Luminate, as the song claims dual top Streaming and Sales Gainer honors on the Hot 100.

The track vaults 25-3 on Streaming Songs and holds at its No. 4 high on the Radio Songs chart.

In addition to its original version on Renaissance, “Soul” was available in six alternate forms during the tracking week: its Honey Dijon, Terry Hunter and will.i.am remixes; its Nita Aviance club mix; and a cappella and instrumental versions. 

As it reaches No. 1 on the Hot 100, “Soul” concurrently climbs to the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot R&B Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100. Beyoncé adds her 10th No. 1 on the former and her third on the latter (which began in October 2012). The track also tops the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart for a sixth week. “Soul” makes history as the first song to lead all four lists

The lead single for Beyonce’s upcoming album, Renaissance, has soared up the charts to the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. After debuting at #15 last week, this week it sits comfortably at #7. It has sold approximately 13k, 17k in streams and has a radio audience of 23M.

With the success of “Break My Soul“, Beyonce joins Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney as the only artists in history to earn at least 20 top 10 hits on the Hot 100 as a soloist and at least 10 as a part of a group.

“Break My Soul” also reaches a new peak of #9 on this week’s Billboard Global 200 singles chart. It becomes her first top 10 hit since the chart launched. Keep streaming and buying!

Combined album and song sales for Beyoncé & Destiny’s Child increase by 83 percent after Beyoncé’s Coachella debut.

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Beyoncé’s debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 14 powered big gains for her music sales and streams in the U.S. in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music.

The diva headlined the second night of the festival, which was streamed live on YouTube. Her well-received performance featured her husband JAY-Z, her sister Solange and a Destiny’s Child reunion alongside group members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams .

Combined, the album and song catalog of both Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child saw an 83 percent increase in sales in the week ending April 19, as the two acts combined sold 8,000 albums (up 102 percent from 4,000 a week earlier) and 37,000 digital tracks (up 79 percent from 21,000).

The biggest-selling album between the two acts was Beyoncé’s 2016 set Lemonade, which re-enters the April 28-dated Top Album Sales chart at No. 24 with 5,000 sold (up 142 percent) — its best sales frame since the week ending Dec. 28, 2017.

On the Billboard 200 — which ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption — Lemonade re-enters at No. 91, while her self-titled 2013 album returns at No. 138 and 2008’s I Am… Sasha Fierce jumps back onto the tally at No. 160.

Both the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales chart, along with the rest of Billboard’s charts dated April 28, will post on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday (April 24).

Beyoncé’s top three biggest-selling songs during the latest tracking week, as a lead act, were “Formation” (3,000), “Sorry” (2,000) and “Hold Up” (2,000) — all from her Lemonade album, and all were performed at Coachella.

Music streams of both Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child also increased following the April 14 Coachella performance, as their collected tunes saw a 21 percent rise in on-demand audio and video streams (rising to 49.9 million, up from 41.2 million).

Beyoncé also performed for a second and final time at the 2018 Coachella festival on April 21. Any gains resulting from performance — which was not streamed on YouTube — would be captured in the tracking week ending April 26.

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Beyonce blasts onto the chart at No. 10 with “Formation.” The song, from her album Lemonade, which roars onto the Billboard 200 at No. 1, is her 16th solo Hot 100 top 10 and first since “Drunk in Love,” featuring Jay Z, which reached No. 2 in February 2014. (Beyonce has also notched 10 top 10s as part of Destiny’s Child.)

“Formation” bows with roughly two-thirds of its Hot 100 points from sales, as it starts at No. 3 on Digital Songs with 174,000 sold, having gone on sale April 25. It also enters Streaming Songs at No. 43 (6.5 million) with almost all its streaming points from Tidal, which holds exclusive streaming rights to Lemonade. (A nominal portion of streaming points is from user-generated clips featuring the song’s official audio.)

“Formation,” which also re-enters Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at a new high of No. 6, had bubbled under the Hot 100 and rose to No. 33 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in March, driven by airplay, when it was not available for purchase (and Tidal did not report the song’s streaming totals to Nielsen; none of its streams prior to April 23 were reported by Tidal to Nielsen). The track first made waves in early February, as Beyonce performed it live during the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show (Feb. 7).

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Almost 500k in 4 days, not to bad at all.

Beyonce’s Lemonade album charges in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the superstar her sixth chart-topper. The set earned 653,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 28, according to Nielsen Music. Pure album sales comprised 485,000 of that sum. – Source

Beyoncé ‘Lemonade’ – With her surprise sixth studio album, Beyoncé picks up her second #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Released on Monday (25 Apr), Lemonade is the follow-up to Beyoncé (#1 Jan. ‘14) and features appearances by Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and more. Like its predecessor, there’s a visual album version of Lemonade. It was first broadcast on HBO in the US on 23 Apr. The album’s lead single, ‘Formation’, has debuted at #24 on this week’s Singles Chart. – ARIA

While not available for purchase, Beyonce’s “Formation,” which she released on YouTube Feb. 6 and then performed on the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show Feb. 7, makes a noteworthy start at R&B/hip-hop radio.

Even though the song has yet to be officially promoted to radio stations by its label, Columbia, the song arrives as Beyonce’s highest career debut on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart (dated Feb. 27), entering at No. 11 with 16.3 million in audience (from 88 stations that played the song), according to Nielsen Music. Beyonce previously started at a high of No. 14 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay as featured (with Lil Wayne) on Usher’s “Love in This Club Part II” in 2008. As a lead artist, she tops her prior best beginning of No. 20 with “Singles Ladies (Put a Ring on It”), also in 2008. “Ladies” would become her longest-leading (12 weeks) of seven No. 1s on the chart.

On the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart (which, with Adult R&B Songs, combines to form the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay panel), “Formation” launches at No. 17. Genre airplay also pushes the track to a No. 18 debut on the Hot R&B Songs tally.

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