Beyoncé smashes 'Texas Hold 'Em' UK Top 10 debut

Beyoncé holds all the cards as 'Texas Hold'Em' enters the UK top 10.

The new single, the first from the upcoming Bey Act of Rebirth II Project (Columbia/Parkwood Ent), bows at No.9 on the Official UK Singles Chart, published on Friday, February 16.

With this fast start, the pop superstar has a 22nd UK top 10 single. Act II will mark Bey's eighth studio album, four of which have reached No.1 in the UK

Three cuts from Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures 1 (YZY) fly to Official Chart – the maximum allowed by any album. All crack the top 20, led by “Carnival” (at No. 12), “Burn” (No. 17) and “Back To Me” (No. 18).

Topping the chart is Noah Kahan's 'Stick Season' (Republic Records), which has a seventh consecutive week at No.1. With its parent album climbing to the top of the Official UK Albums Chart, Kahan makes his first his career in the UK chart double. A new edition of Stick Season The album features the track “Forever”, which reaches No. 31 for his fifth UK top 40 single.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Saltburn-powered “Murder On The Dancefloor” (Polydor) is at No. 2 on the Official Singles Chart, less than 600 combined units ahead of Benson Boone's “Beautiful Things” (Warner Records), OCC reports. “Beautiful Things” climbs 5-3, a new top spot for the 21-year-old Washington, D.C.-born singer-songwriter.

Also up is YG Marley's “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” (YG Marley Music), up 9-5. This is a career high for Marley, the grandson of the late, great Bob Marley and son of Ms. Lauryn Hill.

English singer and TV host Wes Nelson enjoys a Top 40 debut with “Abracadabra” (Moor), his collaboration with homegrown R&B favorite Craig David. It's new at No.37, following the pair's live appearance on ITV Love Island All Starsfor Nelson's fourth UK top 40 single and David's 26th.

Finally, Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car” (Rhino) returns to the Top 40 after her rare performance of the '80s hit at the 2024 Grammy Awards. “Fast Car” re-enters No. 38 after Chapman and country star Luke Combs performed the song at the Grammys on Feb. 4, marking Chapman's first live televised appearance since 2015. Originally released in 1988, “Fast Car” peaked at No. 4 in 2011 and has been introduced to audiences of the country with the faithful interpretation of Combs that appeared in 2023 I'm getting old and became a US hit.