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Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour kicks off in Stockholm next month, which means that you should start thinking about what to wear. And if there’s one must-have accessory for the tour, it’s a sparkly cowboy hat, like the one Quen Bey wore to announce the tour back in February.

Bey’s stylist bought the disco cowboy hat from an Etsy shop, owned by Abby Misbin, last summer. Misbin’s shop, TrendingByAbby, has been slammed with orders ever since the hat made its tour poster debut.

“I had no clue whether it was gonna be used,” Misbin told The Cut in February. “I was thinking, ‘She’s gonna look at the hat and not like it.’ I was just refreshing my phone and hoping for the best. I didn’t see it when her album art got released. She’s wearing a cowboy hat, but not my cowboy hat, which was the biggest bummer. And then the tour poster came out, and she was wearing it.”

After the tour poster dropped, Misbin “replied to like 50 tweets” to get people to notice that Beyoncé was wearing her hat. And it worked.

“I sold out once one very popular Twitter account posted it,” Misbin said. “My friend messaged them about my shop, and they said, ‘That’s awesome, we love that it’s a small business, we’ll promote it right away.’ The tour poster dropped at 8 or 9 a.m., and by 11 a.m., I was sold out. Everyone wants to wear them to the tour.”

Misbin received around “75 orders” in the first day and had close to 500 people on the waiting list at the time of the interview. The hats are currently sold out, but according to a message on her Etsy shop, Misbin is determined to get them out to fans. “I’m committed to bringing each and every one [of] you lovely people a beautiful disco ball hat!”

Between Beyoncé and hit shows like Yellowstone, the cowboy aesthetic and coastal cowgirl aesthetic keep getting hotter as the trends have racked up more than 140 million views on TikTok. Whether you’re heading to see Bey perform live, hitting up Coachella (or both, if you’re lucky), a cowboy hat will certainly come in handy.

To ensure that you’re ready for the Renaissance Tour, we rounded up a few mirrored cowboy hats from Etsy and Amazon that are currently in stock.

See more below.

Etsy
Disco Cowboy Hat
$112.50 $150 25% off% OFF

It’s not the exact hat that Bey wore for her tour photo shoot, but it’s close to the original (and also available at Etsy). This mirrored cowboy hat features disco tiles that catch the light for added shine, and according to the reviews, the hat is “absolutely gorgeous,” and good quality.

Want more options from Etsy? This sparkly hat is on sale for $39.83 (regular $46.86), while this mirror ball hat (with chin strap) is marked down to $35.10 (regular $39).

Amazon

Buy: Steampunk Rave Captain Style Luxury Sequin Cowby Hat $54.97

For cosplay and Beyoncé! This sequin cowboy hat is recommended for parties and costumes, but it’s also perfect for the tour.

Amazon

Buy: FlashingBlinkyLights Silver Sequin Light Up LED Cowboy Hat $18.99

Feeling flashy? The sequin cowboy hat pictured above lights up with the press of a button. The hat has three LED light settings (flashing, blinking and steady), plus it’s available at Amazon, in case you get down to the wire and need a hat delivered in a hurry. You can also shop metallic cowboy hats on Amazon and a decent selection of rhinestone cowboy hats.

Etsy
Diamond Disco Cowboy Hat
$88.20 $98 10% off% OFF

How about a mirrorball hat with tassels? This design elevates the standard rhinestone cowboy hat and will definitely turn heads.

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Hailey Bieber is heading from the bathroom to the kitchen. Following the success of her YouTube interview series Who’s In My Bathroom?, the Rhode founder launched on Wednesday (April 12) the first season of What’s In My Kitchen?

The six-episode installment features the model sharing recipes for her favorite dishes, including chicken wings and an at-home version of her popular Erewhon Skin Smoothie. “What’s In My Kitchen? was a natural spinoff to Who’s In My Bathroom? because our audience was ready for us to stop eating in the bathroom!” Bieber said in a press statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve loved cooking and sharing meals with friends on my social channels for years, and I can’t wait to bring this experience to the fans of our network with OBB and HexClad. Creating new formats and IP for my channel has been really empowering, as my team and I get to truly create everything from concept to screen, and I can’t wait for everybody to see what’s next.”  

The show will also give back, as Bieber will source her cooking ingredients from Village Market Place from Community Services Unlimited, which works to “address the inequalities and systemic barriers that make sustainable communities and self-reliant life-styles unattainable,” according to their website. Hexclad will also make a donation to the Accion Opportunity Fund, which allows female-owned and POC-owned small businesses in the food industry to leverage $100,000 in microloans.

Watch the first episode of What’s In My Kitchen? below.

Taylor Swift‘s The Eras tour is taking over Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday night (April 13), which happens to be a school night. That’s why Hillsborough County Superintendent Addison Davis sent out a letter of caution to students, in a language only Swifties can understand.

The letter, which let students know that an absence to attend the concert will not be excused, was filled with references to various Swift songs. “I understand I am the ‘Anti-Hero’ here, and ‘Call It What You Want,’ but ‘You’re on Your Own Kid’ if you think being a Swiftie is a good excuse for missing important instruction,” the note posted to Reddit reads. “You know ‘All Too Well’ you ‘Should’ve Said No’ to attending a Thursday night concert. Especially one from an artist who is known for putting on a three-hour AMAZING show.”

Read the full letter here.

Davis had a similar idea to a Texas legal-service provider named Karen Vladeck, who wrote her own pun-filled letter for exactly what the superintendent was dreading: asking that her first-grader be excused from school to attend The Eras tour. According to Vladeck, the teacher simply responded in all caps, “THIS MADE MY ENTIRE DAY.”

Swift is currently a month into her Eras Tour shows, which she kicked off in Glendale, Arizona. Following sets in Las Vegas and Arlington, the “Anti-Hero” musician is headlining three shows in Tampa on April 13, 14 and 15.

Melanie Martinez notches her first No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated April 15) as her new studio album Portals bows atop the list – and with her biggest sales week ever. The set sold 99,000 copies in the United States in the week ending April 6, according to Luminate.

Portals’ first-week sales was supported by 21 different physical variants of the album – six vinyl LPs, 14 CDs and one cassette. The audio content across all of the editions is the same – the variations are mostly distinguished by their packaging (including color vinyl editions, alternative covers, a signed CD and four deluxe boxed sets with either a tank top or a shirt along with a CD).

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Also in the top 10 of the Top Album Sales chart: Super group Boygenius arrives at No. 2 with its first full-length album, The Record; xikers debuts at No. 7 with House of Tricky: Doorbell Ringing – The 1st Mini Album; Tyler, the Creator’s former No. 1 Call Me If You Get Lost leaps 49-8 after it was reissued with additional tracks and Polyphia’s Remember That You Will Die – released in 2022 – re-enters the chart at No. 10 after its vinyl LP release.

Plus, Taylor Swift’s chart-topping Midnights has seen a 25% sales gain in the three weeks since her Eras Tour launch.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram.

Boygenius’ The Record bows at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 53,000 copies sold – with 85% of that sum (45,000) on vinyl. It was available in eight different-colored variants, including exclusives for indie stores, Target and Urban Outfitters.

Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. dips 2-3 in its second week (25,000 sold; down 71%. Jimin’s FACE falls 1-4 in its second week (20,000; down 84%).

Swift’s Midnights rises 9-5 with 14,000 copies sold in the latest tracking week (up 13%). In the three tracking weeks since her Eras Tour launch on March 17, Midnights has sold 39,000 copies in the U.S. – a 25% gain compared to its sales in the three weeks leading up to the tour kickoff (31,000).

TWICE’s former No. 1 Ready to Be: 12th Mini Album rises 7-6 with 13,000 (down 15%). Xikers starts at No. 7 with House of Tricky: Doorbell Ringing – 1st Mini Album (12,000).

Tyler, the Creator’s chart-topping Call Me If You Get Lost rebounds 49-8 with 11,000 sold (up 302%) after the album – first released in 2021 – was reissued on March 31 with eight previously unreleased songs. The set was reintroduced to retail as both a digital download album and a CD (the latter was exclusively sold through the artist’s webstore).

TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s former leader The Name Chapter: Temptation bumps 10-9 with nearly 11,000 sold (down 4%) and Polyphia’s Remember That You Will Die re-enters the chart at No. 10 with nearly 10,000 sold (up 4,127%) following its vinyl LP release. The album, released last October, previously debuted and peaked at No. 6 (Nov. 12, 2022-dated chart) from sales generated by its digital download, CD and cassette formats.

In the week ending April 6, there were 2.110 million albums sold in the U.S. (down 3.9% compared to the previous week). Of that sum, physical albums (CDs, vinyl LPs, cassettes, etc.) comprised 1.774 million (down 1.6%) and digital albums comprised 336,000 (down 14.7%).

There were 731,000 CD albums sold in the week ending April 6 (up down 7.6% week-over-week) and 1.031 million vinyl albums sold (up 3.4%). Year-to-date CD album sales stand at 9.075 million (up 3% compared to the same time frame a year ago) and year-to-date vinyl album sales total 12.561 million (up 27.8%).

Overall year-to-date album sales total 26.749 million (up 9.2% compared to the same year-to-date time frame a year ago). Year-to-date physical album sales stand at 21.774 million (up 16%) and digital album sales total 4.975 million (down 12.9%).

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