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Beyonce Sold 618K US/823K World-Wide(Records)
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LionofJudah
Banned
What I can't understand is how nobody gave a fukk/or liked her last album, but they are flocking to buy this one just because she released it without promotion, most without hearing any song from it first. People are caught up in the hype as opposed to the actual quality of the tracks. It shows artists know their fans are some damn following fools.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
No one gave a fukk about "4"?
It sold 3 million worldwide. How didn't anyone not like it? 
People didn't buy it blind. There were 1:30 second snippets. Obviously people liked the previews and copped it. That's exactly what I did.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
She's been touring and back in the media nonstop this year, her fans, and industry people, wanted an album from her. Her last album was lead by the worst song on it, was too r&b, and she bounced a few months after it dropped to give birth/be a mom. A lot of people rebound after poor sales (plus 4 was her most mature album up to that point, it was great, it just wasnt crossover club friendly)
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LionofJudah
Banned
No one gave a fukk about "4"?
People didn't buy it blind. There were 1:30 second snippets. Obviously people liked the previews and copped it. That's exactly what I did.
It was a critically acclaimed failure in regards to Beyonce, and sold less than her previous albums. An album selling doesn't equate to people liking it.
ITunes has been the biggest music retailer for a while nowIts bigger than that whoadie
Its the fact that Bey was able to generate over 400,000 sales DIGITALLY, this may be a complete game changer. Once the industry realizes you are able to get fans to cop shyt from the comfort of their homes instantly & digitally simply out of brand loyalty. They are gonna do away with the dated CD structure. Which is gonna open the flood gates of the business model of making and selling music.
Whole gears are gonna be shifted. Imagine what that means for a young local artist who got a loyal fanbase who is down to spend 10 on his new mixtape. If you jus put ya shyt up on itunes and get 1,000 people to spend 10.
Nipsey Hussle struck gold by not signing to a major when he had the opportunity, he jus may have found the crack in the matrix
http://iamproud2pay.com/
This idea that a lot of you have about Promotion is so off base.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
This is bullshyt.
4 is her best album and better than this one.
4 leaked a month before the release
Elle Driver
Veteran
Exactly. Her album wasn't really ground breaking, like her entire body of work, by any stretch of the imagination even though I liked it. That's what a solid fanbase and hype does though. Beyonce is a machine, it's cool to like her, it's a running joke where her fans even act like she's some type of deity (including people that don't even fukk with her like that but wanna seem cool or funny). She can't touch any of the women who laid the framework and foundation for her, she's just seen as this icon
because let's be honest, her contemporaries are Rihanna, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Britney Spears etc. 
UpAndComing
Veteran
Exactly
Nothing against Beyonce, she a great artist. But she's famous as fukk
Say Obama said "Hey I'm coming out with a rap album". You think he wouldn't sell 400K in 3 days? Don't matter if he rap like Wocka Flocka
Fame is what made people buy the album
Unknown artists still won't be able to capitalize on this, cause nobody would buy a record without them being confident they got their money's worth
Beyonce released an album to fans prior to them EVEN HEARING A NOTE, and people think obviousness is revolutionary
LionofJudah
Banned
It was her highest rated album ever prior to this one.
I don't know about that, but either way, my point was the majority didn't like it.
Who cares? Like I said, it was panned by critics and fans alike.
MikeBrownsJob
Seattle fan since 2013 *deal with it slime*
[quote="LionofJudah, post: 6576181, member: 11980"]I don't know about that, but either way, my point was the majority didn't like it.
Who cares? Like I said, it was panned by critics and fans alike.[/quote]
Yeh I know you don't know. Cause I just told you.
Who cares? Like I said, it was panned by critics and fans alike.[/quote]
Yeh I know you don't know.
Cause I just told you.
LionofJudah
Banned
Exactly. Her album wasn't really ground breaking, like her entire body of work, by any stretch of the imagination even though I liked it. That's what a solid fanbase and hype does though. Beyonce is a machine, it's cool to like her, it's a running joke where her fans even act like she's some type of deity (including people that don't even fukk with her like that but wanna seem cool or funny). She can't touch any of the women who laid the framework and foundation for her, she's just seen as this icon
Yeah, I don't like that she's the ones selling millions of albums and legends before her can't crack gold, but it is what it is. I guess when gay men and women up to their mid-30's are fukking with you, you can't be beat.
LionofJudah
Banned
Yeh I know you don't know.
A man stannin Beyonce is nothing to be proud of.