Was scrolling through BB 200 but got bored by the time I got past the top 40. Did NOT see it for BEYONCE on this chart? Nor are her songs visible in the iTunes top 100. Is this era more frontloaded than FEMME FATALE? At least that had a #1 single and two further top 10s to sustain the era... Also haven't heard anyone say "surfboardt" in at LEAST 3 months so I'm getting seriously concerned that its iconic impact is fading.
I think BEYONCE & Born This Way would be a better comparison on front loaded. Both of them selling 1 million with a tactic in around a week, and in the end barely doing 2 million overall (US).