Beyonce’s Renaissance Tops Billboard 200 As 2022’s Biggest Debut By Female Artiste

Singer Beyonce’s Renaissance is at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart as 2022’s biggest week by a woman and the second-largest week of the year overall as the set launches atop the chart with 332,000 equivalent album units earned in the US in the week, according to Luminate.

According to billboard.com, Renaissance, Beyonce’s seventh solo No. 1 album, is the first album released by a woman in 2022 to top the Billboard 200. The last woman at No. 1 was Adele with 30, which ruled for its first six weeks on the list (charts dated December 4, 2021 – January 8, 2022).

Renaissance is Beyonce’s seventh solo studio album, and the first since the chart-topping Lemonade in 2016. Since then, she teamed with husband Jay-Z on ‘The Carters’ Everything Is Love’ in 2018, released ‘Homecoming: The Live Album’ and led ‘The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack’.