While taking the No.1 spot on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart, Maren Morris' GIRL had the most streams in a week by a female country artist ever.
Maren acknowledged the record-breaking achievement in a tweet to fans saying, "Thank you for one of the best weeks of my life. I’m truly grateful I get to do this with y’all and I can’t fully process this news."
GIRL's record-breaking first week also gained Maren the first No.1 album debut of a female artist on the Top Country Albums of 2019.
According to Billboard, this is also the first No.1 debut for a female country artist since Carrie Underwood released
Cry Pretty last September.
Taking a look at the numbers, this is more than just a record-breaking success. The on-demand streaming figures are massive, with GIRL garnering 23.96 million on-demand audio streams. Comparing that to the last No.1 debut album by a female country artist, Carrie Underwood's Cry Pretty generated 14.44 million on-demand audio streams.
This isn't the first record GIRL set this past week either. Amazon Music announced that GIRL had broken the record for any country album debut on its platform by garnering the most first day streams as well as the most first day on-demand voice requests with Alexa.
But wait, there's more!
Billboard also announced that
GIRL attained "
the largest streaming week for a studio country album by a woman" as well as "
the largest opening streaming week for any country album in 2019."
