With her new album, Four the Record, at number-one on the country albums chart for two weeks running, and with the smash first single, “Baggage Claim,” closing in on the top of the charts, Miranda Lambert tells us that the kind of music that she enjoyed growing up and that really caught her ear over the years has come from artists who wanted to push the envelope, from Shania to Beyoncé. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Did you catch Miranda on Chelsea Lately last week? If you missed it, you can watch it, right here! 

  Growing up, Miranda Lambert says that the music that often appealed to her was music that reached for something different. (:43)
“I loved all country, you know? I loved from Patty Loveless to Faith, Shania — I mean, Sara Evans. I’ve been…and then I also had the pop side, you know, Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child. (laughs) I was lovin’ people that had somethin’ different, you know, that did somethin’ a little bit different. And when…like when Faith did the pop album — the Cry record — I just thought it was great. I mean, I thought it was…her singin’ was cool, and it was somethin’ different I’d never heard from little ol’ country Faith Hill, you know? And Shania obviously broke all kinds of records and barriers with her music. So, just, you know, those aren’t necessarily my musical influences, of course, but they’re influences to me as far as what they did later on in their careers versus when they started.”