Blue Ivy has bested us again. Despite being just seven years old, Beyonce’s daughter has scored her very first hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The pop queen of all of our futures collaborated with her mother on the track ‘Brown Skin Girl’, one of the standout songs on Beyoncé’s The Lion King-inspired soundtrack album Spirit.
The track has proven to be one of its biggest hits, placing at 77 on the Hot 100. Blue Ivy, who is credited as one of the track’s songwriters, can be heard at the beginning and end of the song. She was previously a featured artist on her father Jay-Z’s track ‘Glory’, and her mother’s track ‘Blue’.
Unfortunately for the Knowles-Carter family, Blue Ivy can’t claim to be the youngest ever artist to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. That record is still held by the French pop singer Jordy, who charted in 1993 aged five years old with his single ‘It’s Tough to Be a Baby’.
Jordy fell out of the public eye amid speculation about the motives behind his ascent to stardom and the failure of a children’s theme park named Jordy’s Farm. He did, however, manage to squeeze in a cameo in the John Travolta/Kirstie Alley threequel Look Who’s Talking Now before he returned to normal life.
