Jay-Z and Beyoncé's baby is already a record-breaker: Backup gurgles on the rap lullaby "Glory" make her the youngest artist to hit the Billboard charts.
Blue Ivy Carter will be all of five days old when the single, which her father posted online Monday, debuts Thursday at No. 74 on Billboard's R&B/hip-hop hit list.
"It's historical. The charts are almost 72 years old, so to be the youngest ever to chart is something," said Bill Werde, Billboard's editorial director.
Blue Ivy surpasses Jordy Lemoine, who at 5 years old debuted at No. 82 in 1993 with his song "Dur Dur D'Etre Bebe!" ("It's Tough To Be A Baby!"). Jay-Z mixed in the first sounds of his daughter after her birth Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital, revealing in the song that she was conceived in Paris after an earlier miscarriage.
Meanwhile, state Health Department spokesman Jeffrey Gordon said Tuesday night his agency reviewed complaints that Lenox Hill security for Beyoncé had blocked other parents from seeing their newborns.
"We received two complaints, they've been reviewed and dismissed," Gordon said. Both were deemed not credible, a source said. Two families told the Daily News they weren't able to visit their kids in the neonatal intensive care unit.
But Queens couple Lindsey and Eric Levine, both 32, liked the security and called their experience "wonderful."
"You could definitely tell there was tighter security, but it didn't affect our stay in any way," said Eric Levine, whose wife delivered a girl, Eden Paige, last Thursday and went home Sunday. "There were never any issues whatsoever getting in to see my baby or my wife."
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