{"id":330431,"date":"2026-03-05T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:46:10","slug":"megan-moroney-scores-rare-no-1-among-women-country-acts-on-artist-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330431\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Moroney Scores Rare No. 1 Among Women Country Acts on Artist 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMegan Moroney<\/a> caps a historic week on Billboard<\/a>\u2019s charts (dated March 7), thanks to the debut of her album Cloud 9.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased Feb. 20 (via Megan Moroney\/Columbia Nashville\/Columbia\/Sony Music<\/a> Nashville), the set launches at No. 1 <\/a>on the Billboard 200 with 147,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week, according to Luminate. The Georgia native earns her first leader on the chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, as Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d rules the Billboard Hot 100, she and Moroney mark the first women<\/a> who primarily record country music to lead Billboard\u2019s all-genre song and album charts simultaneously.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe album\u2019s strong opening week also sends Moroney soaring from No. 59 to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 \u2014 where she likewise leads for the first time. The singer-songwriter, who made her Billboard chart debut<\/a> in September 2022, becomes just the third woman to top the chart in its 12-year history sparked by a country album, following Carrie Underwood (one week at No. 1 in September 2018) and Taylor Swift (multiple weeks on top via her Taylor\u2019s Version re-recordings).<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the March 7 Hot 100, Moroney places nine songs from Cloud 9, all debuts except where noted below:<\/p>\n

\n\tRank, Title:
No. 32, \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d (up from No. 58. new peak)
No. 39, \u201cMedicine\u201d
No. 41, \u201cWish I Didn\u2019t\u201d (reentry, new peak)
No. 58, \u201cWedding Dress\u201d
No. 63, \u201cCloud 9\u201d
No. 67, \u201cI Only Miss You,\u201d with Ed Sheeran
No. 68, \u201cWho Hurt You?\u201d
No. 83, \u201cStupid\u201d
No. 97, \u201cConvincing\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album\u2019s lead single, \u201c6 Months Later,\u201d reached No. 29 in January \u2014 Moroney\u2019s highest-charting Hot 100 hit to date.<\/p>\n

\n\tCloud 9 also inducts Moroney into an exclusive club on the Billboard 200. She becomes just the 10th woman to top the chart with a country album this century, and the first since Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Cowboy Carter in April 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s every country album by a woman or all-woman group to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this century (per titles that have hit Billboard\u2019s Top Country Albums chart):<\/p>\n

\n\tTitle, Artist, Peak Date:
Home, The Chicks, 9\/14\/02
Cry, Faith Hill, 11\/2\/02
Up!, Shania Twain, 12\/7\/02
Fireflies, Faith Hill, 8\/20\/05
All Jacked Up, Gretchen Wilson, 10\/15\/05
Taking the Long Way, The Chicks, 6\/10\/06
Reba Duets, Reba McEntire, 10\/6\/07
Carnival Ride, Carrie Underwood, 11\/10\/07
Fearless, Taylor Swift, 11\/29\/08
Keep on Loving You, Reba, 9\/5\/09
Play On, Carrie Underwood, 11\/21\/09
Speak Now, Taylor Swift, 11\/13\/10
Blown Away, Carrie Underwood, 5\/19\/12
Red, Taylor Swift, 11\/10\/12
Platinum, Miranda Lambert, 6\/21\/14
Now, Shania Twain, 10\/21\/17
Cry Pretty, Carrie Underwood, 9\/29\/18
Fearless (Taylor\u2019s Version), Taylor Swift, 4\/24\/21
Red (Taylor\u2019s Version), Taylor Swift, 11\/27\/21
Speak Now (Taylor\u2019s Version), Taylor Swift, 7\/22\/23
Cowboy Carter, Beyonc\u00e9, 4\/13\/24
Cloud 9, Megan Moroney, 3\/7\/26<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Artist 100 measures acts\u2019 activity across key metrics of music consumption: album sales, track sales, radio airplay and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.<\/p>\n


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