This is the thread for all of the statistics of Beyoncé's visual album, BEYONCÉ. Released December 13, 2013 under Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records.
METACRITIC SCORE: 85
UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM based on 34 reviews
Pitchfork - 88 Beyoncé seized the powers of a medium characterized by its short attention span to force the world to pay attention. Leave it to the posterchild of convention to brush convention aside and leave both sides feeling victorious.
The A.V. Club - 91 Without playing into cheap “tortured by fame” tropes, she’s made an emotional album that’s dense and substantial but never difficult or self-important.
Pretty Much Amazing - 91 Beyoncé waited for the last moment to unveil 2013′s finest pop album. It arrived too late to enter our top ten lists, but just in time to own the year.
Entertainment Weekly - 91 Here more than ever Bey indulges clashing impulses--between strength and escape, megapop and fresh sounds, big messages and resonant lyrics.
Billboard.com - 90 Once the initial novelty and shock wears off of Beyoncé's impressive stealth-release feat, the brilliance and creative audacity of the album itself can sink in.
Clash Music - 90 Beyoncé’ is one of the best damn albums of 2013, basically, however you’re looking at it: as an R&B record, a pop set, an electro collection. Whatever your tastes, you can’t question the quality here.
DJ Booth - 90 We’re clearly listening to one of the most purely talented artists of our generation working at her peak, or at least somewhere close.
All Music Guide - 90 In time, it should be seen as a career highlight from a superstar--one of the hardest-working people in the business, a new mother, in total control, at her creative and commercial peak.
Fact Magazine (UK) - 90 Beyoncé is a stronger personal statement than Magna Carta… Holy Grail, less self-indulgent than The 20/20 Experience, and (in its own way) as dark and confrontational as Yeezus.
The Quietus - 90 It is a bold, expansive body of work that should have all the praise heaped on it because, without warning, she dropped one of the strongest albums of the year on us.
The New York Times - 90 The songs are alert to the current sound of clubs and radio, but not trapped by it; the refrains are terse and direct, but what happens between them isn’t formulaic. And while Beyoncé constructed the songs with a phalanx of collaborators, they all know better than to eclipse her creamy, soulful voice.
Absolute Punk - 88 This is plainly Beyoncé’s most personal album yet, one forged in the fires of public miscarriages, a wrenching journey that does as much to combat this years Yeezus-led political misogyny as it complements with its own version of black empowerment and self-love, one that is staunchly, inclusively, womanist.
Tracklist:
1. Pretty Hurts
2. Haunted
3. Drunk in Love (feat. Jay Z)
4. Blow
5. No Angel
6. Partition
7. Jealous
8. Rocket
9. Mine (feat. Drake)
10. XO
11. ***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche)
12. Superpower (feat. Frank Ocean)
13. Heaven
14. Blue (feat. Blue Ivy)
15. Pretty Hurts (Video)
16. Ghost (Video)
17. Haunted (Video)
18. Drunk in Love (feat. Jay Z) [Video]
19. Blow (Video)
20. No Angel (Video)
21. Yoncé (Video)
22. Partition (Video)
23. Jealous (Video)
24. Rocket (Video)
25. Mine (feat. Drake) [Video]
26. XO (Video)
27. ***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche) [Video]
28. Superpower (feat. Frank Ocean) [Video]
29. Heaven (Video)
30. Blue (feat. Blue Ivy) [Video]
31. Grown Woman (Bonus Video)
32. Credits (Video)
Worldwide peak positions:
Worldwide - 1 (#1 for 5 weeks)
Australian Albums (ARIA) - 1 (#1 for 3 weeks)
Canadian Albums (Billboard) - 1 (#1 for 3 weeks)
Netherlands - 1
Russian Albums Chart - 1
US Billboard 200 - 1 (#1 for 3 weeks)
Irish Albums (IRMA) - 2
New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ) - 2
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) - 2
South Korean International Albums Chart (GAON) - 2
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) - 2
Polish Albums (ZPAV) - 2
Scottish Albums (OCC) - 2
Taiwanese Albums Chart (G-Music) - 2
UK Albums (OCC) - 2
Croatian Albums Chart - 3
Portuguese Albums (AFP) - 3
South Africa - 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) - 4
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) - 4
Czech Albums Chart - 5
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) - 5
Slovenian Albums Chart (SLO TOP 30) - 5
Estonia - 6
China Album Charts - 7
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) - 8
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) - 9
South Korean Albums Chart (GAON) - 9
French Albums (SNEP) - 10
German Albums (Media Control) - 11
Japan - 11
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) - 12
Greek Albums (IFPI) - 12
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn) - 12
Italian Albums (FIMI) - 14
Mexico - 15
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) - 26
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) - 27
Records Broken/Achievements:
• #1 in 111 countries (iTunes)
• #1 in 108 countries simultaneously (iTunes)
• Fastest selling album in the history of the iTunes Store, selling 828,773 copies worldwide in just three days.
• 1,000,000+ sold in 5 1/2 days through iTunes (WW)
• 80,000 sold in 3 hours through iTunes (US)
• 430,000 sold in 24 hours through iTunes (US)
• 617,000 sold in 3 days through iTunes (US)
• 68,000 sold in 2 days through iTunes (UK)
• 35,000 sold in 3 days through iTunes (Canada)
• 12,100 sold in 2 days through iTunes (France)
• 8th Biggest-Selling Album of 2013 (US)
• Best selling female album of 2013 (US)
• First artist in history with digital-only week sales over 1 million
• "BEYONCÉ" is only the second digital-only album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200
• Fastest album to sell 1 million digitally (4 weeks) (US)
• 9th album to sell 1 million digital copies in the US
• First album by an African American or R&B artist to sell 1M digital copies
• 2nd best selling album of 2013 on iTunes
• Biggest female debut of 2013 (WW)
• Biggest female debut of 2013 (US)
• Biggest female debut of 2013 (UK)
• Beyoncé's fifth consecutive number-one album
• Only female artist with 5 Consecutive #1 Albums
• Beyoncé's highest first-week sales
• 4th best debut week of 2013 (US)
• First 3 sales weeks are the biggest 3 sales week for a female artist in 2013
• First album since 2009 to sell more than 300,000 copies in each of its first three weeks
• First album to wind up in the year-end top 10 based on just three weeks of sales availability in the Nielsen SoundScan era
• 2nd highest first-week digital sales in the US*
*Lady Gaga sold 662k (440k was attributable to a 99 cent Amazon MP3 sale)
Beyoncé's US discography sales: Dangerously In Love (2003) - 4.9+ million B'Day (2006) - 3.36 million I Am...Sasha Fierce (2008) - 3.14 million 4 (2011) - 1.41 million BEYONCÉ (2013) - 2.08 million
Total US Album Sales: 15 million
Beyoncé's Worldwide discography sales: Dangerously In Love (2003) - 9.6+ million B'Day (2006) - 6.3+ million I Am...Sasha Fierce (2008) - 7.9+ milion 4 (2011) - 3+ million BEYONCÉ (2013) - 3.7+ million
So how are we gonna get the WW numbers? I don't think mediatraffic is very reliable especially for BEYONCE because they couldn't count Germany's and a few other countries #s at all because they didn't report.
So how are we gonna get the WW numbers? I don't think mediatraffic is very reliable especially for BEYONCE because they couldn't count Germany's and a few other countries #s at all because they didn't report.
Reliable or not it's all we have.
You can use Haribo's figures for the countries Mediatraffic overlooks.
Surprised by the poor positions in Asia and Mainland Europe. Is this because it's not on Spotify? Shame. Fantastic job everywhere else though, go Bey!
That's because her debut week in most of these countries are like her 2nd or 3rd week, she wasn't allowed to chart because they didn't count digital sales and in Japan/Portugal the album is yet to be released.
Sales Breakdown/Chart Run
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