1st (December 2013-April 2014) XO POP
2nd (December 2013-April 2014) Drunk in Love (featuring JAY Z) URBAN/RHYTHMIC
3rd (May-August 2014) Blow ALL
4th (September-December 2014) Pretty Hurts POP
5th (September-December 2014) Partition URBAN/RHYTHMIC
6th (January-April 2015) Mine (featuring Drake) ALL

This is realistic, as I could see her promoting up until the 2015 Grammys. Mine MUST be released, and I want a Grammy performance.

Blow is good for summer, just don't expect huge sales or a peak, anything more is a surprise success. Blow is too great not to be released in the summertime.

Bey's era will prob. end up like 20/20. The first one.
Acclaim, hype,frontloaded sales, modest charting singles.
Lets just hope she finds a Mirrors. Ugh watch it be Pretty Hurts

this was so cute

Indeed. Gaga and Kesha their careers prove the intrinsic value of a 1.29 single

And snubbed by the big categories at the Grammy's

The new middle 8 is WAY better srry.

I was just listening to this song 3 or 4 days ago.

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?p=18281441

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If she released the surprise album earlier this year, she prob. could have knocked 20/20's spot as highest selling album this year

Song of 2013.

Exactly

"if"
"let's assume"
"this may not happen"

None of you are psychics. Beyoncé coming out of nowhere and upstaging everyone proved that. Just be quiet and wait for the results instead of writing songs off a few days after being made available for purchase.

The whole point of a single is to sell an album, and the girls have struggled to do that all year while Beyoncé has practically outsold them in less than 2 weeks with no singles released months in advance.

You know its bad when the girl with down syndrom from glee can outperform briney

britney look like the type of bitch that dont wipe her ass properly after taking a dump

I get what y'all are saying. You have to think about the future as well as the present. Bey's album sales are great now, yeah, but will they be great in a month's time? Two months? Bey needs singles to keep the album running, and judging by XO's iTunes position, she doesn't really have that.

People are still buying the album right now because the hype hasn't run out yet. But it definitely will, and that's when Bey will have a problem.

20/20 Part 1 was handled well, and they chose the best singles (since there was nothing radio-friendly except Suit & Tie & Mirrors - which both deservedly smashed). 20/20 Part 2 has been handled disastrously, all the wrong choices.

1st (January-April 2013) Suit & Tie (featuring JAY Z)
2nd (April-July 2013) Mirrors
3rd (August-November 2013) Cabaret (featuring Drake)
4th (December 2013-March 2014) Gimme What I Don't Know (I Want)
5th (April-July 2014) Murder (featuring JAY Z)
6th (August-November 2014) Drink You Away

Smash after smash.

Bey is going to RINSE at the 2015 Grammys
I expect a record number of noms.
The Grammy's are suckers for commercially AND critically successful music with significant bandwagons...i.e. Babel.

Bey's album looks like it will approach 2m in the US at a minimum, though.

Hmmmmmm maybe .. I can see DIL being a nom ..and XO for pop

True, people are more willing to buy Pepcé music when they don't know yet what it sounds like.