Beyoncé’s youngest daughter is getting an early start on a potential music career.
The six-year-old girl — whom the 42-year-old hitmaker and husband Jay Z, 54, welcomed with twin brother Sir Carter — has broken the record for youngest female artist featured on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Billboard revealed on Monday.
Rumi secured the honor at six years and nine months when she appeared on Beyoncé’s song Protector, which is featured on her chart-topping new album Cowboy Carter.
Her new record topples the previous record holder — her older sister Blue Ivy, 12 — who became the youngest female artist on the chart in 2019 when she appeared on her mother’s Brown Skin Girl at the age of seven.
The tune, which peaked at number 76, was a collaboration among Beyoncé, SAINt JHN and Wizkid, and it was featured on her quasi-soundtrack album The Lion King: The Gift.
Beyoncé’s twin daughter Rumi Carter (L), six, has broken the record for youngest female artist featured on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Billboard revealed on Monday; seen February 11 with dad Jay Z and sister Blue Ivy (R)
Rumi secured the honor at six years and nine months when she appeared on Beyoncé’s song Protector , which is featured on her chart-topping new album Cowboy Carter (pictured)
Rumi is featured at the start of the song, the fourth track on the album.
The little girl left the singing and rapping to her mother, and she was instead featured in what sounds like a repurposed home recording.
‘Mom, can I hear the lullaby please?’ Rumi asks haltingly, pronouncing the last word more like ‘wullaby.’
Protector debuted at number 42 on the Hot 100 and scored 11.3 million US streams in its opening week, according to Luminate.
Although Rumi has displaced Blue Ivy’s record on the Hot 100 chart, she won’t be able to beat her older sister’s record for being the youngest female artist to appear on any Billboard chart.
In 2012, she was featured on Jay Z’s non-album single Glory, which included the first recording of her heartbeat before she was born, as well as her first breaths and cries shortly after she was born.
The single was released just two days after Beyoncé gave birth to Blue Ivy, and it peaked at number 63 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and at number 23 on the Hot Rap Songs chart.
Although Rumi is the youngest female artist to hit the Billboard 100, the publication points out that she’s not the youngest person ever.
That honor belongs to the French musician Jordy, the son of record producer Claude Lemoine, whose vocals were featured on the 1992 single Dur Dur D’être Bébé! [translation: It’s Tough to Be a Baby], which was a dance music sensation across the globe and peaked at number 58 on the Hot 100 chart.
Protector debuted at number 42 on the Hot 100 and scored 11.3 million US streams in its opening week, according to Luminate; seen February 11 in Las Vegas
Although Rumi has displaced Blue Ivy’s record on the Hot 100 chart, she won’t be able to beat her older sister’s record for being the youngest female artist to appear on any Billboard chart
Blue’s pre-birth heartbeat and post-birth cries are featured on Jay Z’s 2012 non-album single Glory; pictured in 2020 in LA
Beyoncé joined her daughter Rumi in making history when she became the first Black woman ever to top the Billboard Top Country Albums chart for Cowboy Carter
Beyoncé joined her daughter Rumi in making history when she became the first Black woman ever to top the Billboard Top Country Albums chart for Cowboy Carter.
The album also topped the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Americana/Folk Albums chart, and it reportedly earned 407,000 equivalent album units, giving it the biggest sales week of 2024 to date.
Cowboy Carter becomes Beyoncé’s eight album to top the Billboard 200 albums chart.
She has 106 songs that have charted on the Hot 100, the third-most for any female artist, and she only surpassed her husband Jay-Z’s total of 105 songs this week.
