Beyonce’s daughter Rumi breaks record

LOS ANGELES - Beyonce’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 honour 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 Beyonce, SAINt JHN and Wizkid, and it was featured on her quasi-soundtrack album ‘The Lion King: The Gift’.

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. ‘‘Mum, 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.