If she had have given herself 7 days instead of 3, and if she had somehow released it to stores the day after the iTunes release instead of just making it available on iTunes? (Pretend that no leaks happened and that she still shocked the world)

Note:
-She sold 617k copies in the US in 3 days with just iTunes.
-About 70% of 4's sales were physical copies

She didn't sell 1m in her first 10 days, what makes you think she could have done it in seven

This is a moot question, because with a physical release (it takes weeks to manufacture and distribute CDs) she would not have had the element of surprise since the info would have leaked from stores receiving and stocking the CD. It totally changes the nature of the release. You can't live in a fantasy world where it wouldn't have leaked, that doesn't happen. There's a reason why every surprise release has been only on iTunes.

No.

No.

It might have gotten close, but I don't think it would have reached 1M.

No.

this topic is about 2 years late.

Definitely

yes

It would have been close. Probs like JT with 20/20 part 1

She didn't sell a million copies of Beyonce in its first seven days, so no.

Nope. She couldn't even sell 1 million in 10 days.

She doesn't have much hype like Taylor, Adele, Britney and Gaga at their peak. Her career is like that of Pink's. Sells consistently without leaving much impact. And that's isn't necessarily a bad thing.

No

nnn no

she sold over 800K in one week without physical sales, so yes, obviously

over half of 1989's sales were physical, are people are trying to act if BEYONCÉ had been in stores to by on Dec 14th it wouldn't have at least sold 200K?

nn

You just described a situation that is impossible to happen, so you automatically have your answer.

Not the Hive and their flawed logic that it would have sold more if it was available in cd. The reason it even sold that much is because it was surprised released and available only digitally.

are you saying that if it was possible to have CDs in stores on the week it was released digitally that no one would've bought them? or that people only bought the album because it was exclusively digital? is that YOUR logic?

thats almost impressively idiotic, well done!