By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Beyonce’s latest album “Beyonce” was clearly a surprise for most considering she released the album on iTunes at midnight last Friday with no kind of promotion beforehand. However, the numbers for the new release have been the most shocking. Despite the music industry suffering in album sales for the last decade or so thanks to the popularity of illegally downloading music, the singer managed to sell 80,000 copies just three hours after the album’s release.
And if that’s not enough, she managed to sell over 400,000 copies in just a little over one day.
Billboard and Hits Daily Double predicted Beyonce would sell over 500,000, but now it’s been confirmed that she has already sold 617,313 copies in the Unites States in three days. But she’s sold 828,773 albums worldwide, making the album the fastest selling ever in iTunes history.
The album is also number one in about 104 countries as of now.
Congrats again to Beyonce.
In related news, Bey has officially released the music video to her first urban radio single, “Drunk in Love.” Check it out below:
Dead @ that damn gif!!!!! I love it!
LOL. Damnnnnnn.
Well she took her time and put out a very good album. The hype is well deserved.
This is crazy! Go Bey!
Queen!!!!!!!! I’ve been listening to the album all day since Friday!!!!! This is her best yet!!!!!
I bet Jay told her to do it like this. These two are some G’s man. For real.
Well if there was ever any doubt if she still had it or not, here’s the answer.
Well we don’t call her the queen for nothing.
The album is dope. It should be pushing these kinds of numbers.
Wow. And that gif is too funny. lol.
I love Rih Rih, Have anyone notice she have gone AWOL from Social Netowrk website?
Congrats Bey! You the best!!
I love Rig Rig,but have you notice that she have gone AWOL from the Social Network websites (Instagram & Twitter)*
Girl yes, the Navy has been talking about it. You know Rih is real competitive though, so she may be feeling some kind of way right now. I just hope she remembers that Bey’s success does not diminish hers. Both of them can be queens in my opinion. I used to hate Bey because I love Rih, but I had to see that it was unnecessary. Rihanna is doing so well right now that hating on Bey is just insecure. So I’m happy for her and even bought her album. Rih will get it together and show her face on twitter again soon when she realizes that her career isn’t in trouble.
Rihanna shouldn’t take this personal. She’s clearly on top too. I wish her and Beyonce were cool. That’s something black women need to see. We can all win at the same time and we should.
I honestly wish all the Navy was like you…I really do.
True. Bey did her thing, and I won’t even hate.
LOL yep! I don’t understand why though. She just got that Icon award. She’ll be fine.
Look at Bey doing her best grit face…LOL.
I’m not going to lie, I’m shocked at these numbers! I knew the first week numbers would be good, but I was just expecting 400,000! Damn!
Beyonce’s team is smart as hell. They obviously knew what they were doing.
Slay!!!!!
This is for all those people who said she was washed up.
This why I admire her so much.It shows that with:talent,hard work and without drama you can achive huge sucess.I know someone that is going to be very salty, and I’m talking about: Keisha Cole,Keri Hilson,etc, but rather Kanye West.He is salty as hell because he only got two grammy nominations,is album and tour are flopping hard and his relanshionship with Kim as made him into a laughing stock.So expect major tantrum from him, because Beyonce and Jay Z are winning big:Jay Z just got 9 grammy nominations,Beyonce had the first part of her tour soldout without a new album and now it will be way more.Kim will pay for all of this, wait and see their relashionship sink.lol
I predicted yesterday on my YT channel she will definitely sell over 600k by the end of that Sunday. 800,000 copies on iTunes alone guaranteed to go platinum on there by the end of this week. Of course when the physical album comes out people are going be in a rush to get that too, me included. My prediction Beyoncé will hit her magical number of 4X million within a month of her physical album coming out and set to go diamond with this album. Safe to say this will be her best selling album thus far. Smack in the face to her haters saying she is done and underrated. This has literally changed the entire music history you cannot tell me this isn’t iconic here AMA gone ahead and prepare Beyoncé as icon of 2014.