U.K. CHARTS: BEY BREAKS RECORDS

Beyoncé is the first Black artist to take a country album to #1 in the U.K. and can now also claim the first country Official Chart double as “TEXAS HOLD 'EM” tops the singles chart.

COWBOY CARTER (Columbia/Parkwood) summited the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart on 40k in sales this week. Over on singles, “TEXAS HOLD 'EM” logs a fifth nonconsecutive week at the top, tallying 5.5m streams over the last seven days. It’s one of three tracks from the album in today’s Top 10: “Jolene” follows at #8 and “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus at #9.

Elsewhere on albums, GUTS (Geffen) by Olivia Rodrigo rises one to #2 following the release of its GUTS (spilled) edition.

Oxford rock band Ride are #8 with their seventh record, Interplay (Wichita Recordings). Sum 41’s final set, Heaven :x: Hell (Rise Records), is its highest-charting album in eight years, landing at #26.

On the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart, “Too Sweet” (Island) by Hozier jumps four to a new peak of #4.

DJ Artemas has his first U.K. Top 10 single with “i like the way you kiss me” (Parlophone), which ascends seven to #6. Irish DJ duo NewEra levitates into the Top 20 with “Birds in the Sky” (Warner Records), at #20.