Beyoncé’s Classic ‘Cowboy Carter’ Finally Arrives on Vinyl — Here’s Where to Score it Online
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“This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” Queen Bey shared online before the release of her critically acclaimed Renaissance follow-up, Cowboy Carter. On the heels of topping Billboard’s country charts — and making history as the first Black woman to score a Number One country album — Beyoncé has finally dropped Cowboy Carter on vinyl, weeks after its release date.
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Featuring singles like “Texas Hold ‘Em” to her version of the Beatles’ standard “Blackbiird,” “II Most Wanted” with Miley Cyrus to “Levii’s Jeans” featuring Post Malone, Cowboy Carter also marks Beyoncé’s eighth album to top the Billboard 200 chart and, so far, the biggest debut of the year.
As for the vinyl editions, Beyoncé fans can now pick up the album in a few different versions, including exclusive LPs in blue, red, and white vinyl on her site.
While the standard edition vinyl of Cowboy Carter is currently sold out on her site, fans can still find a double-LP version available on Amazon, Target, Urban Outfitters, and Walmart. Fans can shop the vinyl below (plus Cowboy Carter on CD) — while they last.
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'Cowboy Carter' Vinyl
$32.49
$41.98
$32.97
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Bonus: Prime members can score free shipping on Cowboy Carter vinyl orders on Amazon.
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'Cowboy Carter' CD
$11.98
Don’t have a record player? Queen Bey also released her new project on CD, complete with a variety of Cowboy Carter back album covers on her website and sites like Amazon.
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'Cowboy Carter' CD
$11.98
Also available on Beyoncé’s website, fans can score the audio CD version of Cowboy Carter online, complete with a back cover showing the Grammy winner in a cowboy hat.
“This album has been over five years in the making,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram ahead of the Cowboy Carter release. “It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive. It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history.”
Continued Beyoncé: “The criticisms I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that were put on me. act ii is a result of challenging myself, and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work.”
“Beyoncé’s point is made crystal clear by the time she reaches ‘Amen’: She is country and has always been country,” Rolling Stone‘s Brittany Spanos wrote in our Cowboy Carter album review. “There’s no doubting that, gatekeepers be damned. Her latest is a history textbook making her case from track to track.”
Later in the Cowboy Carter review, Spanos writes that, “It feels like after over two decades of being a performer, we are just getting to meet Beyoncé for the first time through these albums. When she asks ‘Can you hear me?’ on ‘American Requiem,’ the answer, more than ever, is ‘loud and clear.'”
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