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Originally posted by Triton
Have we made a list of all of Beyonce's achievements for 2016?
Best Selling 2016 Album
Top Grossing Female Tour 2016, Formation World Tour
Best 1st week sales for a female single 2016, Formation
Best 1st week sales for a female album 2016, Lemonade
Most Awarded Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards (24 awards)
First artist in the chart's history to have their first six studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard 200.
First female to chart 12 or more songs on the US Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.
This is what I can think at the top of my head... what else?
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Best-selling album release of 2016
First artist in Billboard history to have their first six studio albums debut at number one.
Best-selling female album release of 2016 (US)
Best-selling female album in SPS of 2016.
Female with the most consecutive number-one albums, surpassing Janet Jackson & Madonna.
Top Female Artist in sales + streams of 2016, with over 3 million units.
Biggest first week sales for a female album of 2016 (2nd overall).
Biggest second week sales for a female album of 2016.
Biggest third week sales for a female album of 2016.
First woman to chart 12 songs on the Hot 100 at once.
First woman to have every album track debut on the chart with 12.
Most simultaneous songs in the top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits ever, with 8, breaking the Beatles record.
Only artist with 8 top 40 debuts on Billboard Hot 100 from the same album.
Most acclaimed album of 2016 - LEMONADE
Most acclaimed song of 2016 - FORMATION
92 on Metacritic Score.
First and only woman to earn four top 10s on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at the same time.
Billboard top Female R&B/Hip-Hop Artist.
Billboard top R&B digital song seller.
4.3 million+ US digital tracks sold.
Longest stay at number-one on the album chart for an American female in Belguim (7 weeks).
Most-streamed album in a single week by a female artist in history with over 115 million streams.
Most-streamed album in a single week by a female artist in history with over 96 million streams.
Biggest streaming sales for a number-one album in the UK.*
Biggest first week album sales for a solo female artist in the UK of 2016.
Every track on LEMONADE made an entry on the UK single chart.
Billboard's highest grossing tour of the year with Formation World Tour grossing $256M - 49 dates.
First solo artist to headline a concert at Rose Bowl Stadium.
Youngest female artist to headline a concert at Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
First solo female to headline a concert at Cater-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, NC.
The highest grossing tour per show for a solo act of all time ($5.23 million per show).
TIME: PERSON OF THE YEAR (runner-up).
Most googled music star of 2016
FORMATION - Most googled song of 2016.
FORMATION - Most-mentioned song on Instagram of 2016.
Most searched MET Gala dress (2004-Present)
Lip Sync Battle highest ratings ever with 6.4 million viewers.
Most awarded MTV VMA artist in history, 26 wins, breaking Madonna's record.
First artist to earn Grammy nominations in pop, rock, R&B, rap & music/film categories in the same year.
First artist to be nominated in 4 genre categories in the same year (pop, rock, R&B, rap).
Global 45 ELLE Magazine Covers.
Celebrity with the most ELLE magazine covers ever.
IVY PARK - highest-selling brand at Topshop & Nordstrom.
First solo black woman to receive 5 stars from Rolling Stone.
Youngest Woman on Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business.
NME's People of the Year.
The Root's Most Influential African American.
May 23: 'Beyoncé Day' in Minnesota
LEMONADE went to #1 on iTunes in 104 countries.
LEMONADE went to number-one in 16 countries.
Four EMMY nominations for LEMONADE
First artist in Nielsen Music era to have 8 albums in the Top 10 Selling Albums of the Year-end list.
LEMONADE spent 10 weeks at No.1 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart.
Best-selling international female album of 2016 in the UK.
Most nominated artist at the 2016 BET Awards.
Most nominated artist at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
Most nominated artist at the 2016 MTV EMA Video Music Awards.
Most nominated artist at the 2016 Soul Train Awards.
Most nominated artist at the 2016 NAACP Awards.
Most nominated artist at the 2017 GRAMMY awards, including AOTY, SOTY and ROTY.
Most Shazamed Rock Song - Hymn For The Weekend.
Spotify's third most streamed female of 2016.
Most tweeted about moment at Super Bowl 50
Most tweeted about at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
Most tweeted about performance at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
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