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Originally posted by #GetAlong
Sats any new numbers?
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Yes actually.
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4+21+19 = a unique situation in the artist album chart where, for the first time ever, the titles of three of the top five albums are made up entirely of numbers.
Adele contributes 10 times as much to this numerical novelty as Beyoncé but it is the latter that emerges, with the bigger prize and the smaller number, with 4 ranking one, 21 ranking two and 19 ranking five.
As its title suggests, 4 is Beyoncé’s fourth regular studio album - its release perfectly timed to coincide with Beyoncé’s appearance her critically-acclaimed Glastonbury set, which occupied 90 minutes of BBC2 airtime on Sunday night.
The album made a fast start, and sold 89,211 copies to become Beyoncé ’s second solo number one, eight years to the week after her first solo album, Dangerously In Love, dashed to the summit on first week sales of 113,117.
Despite its big first week and its seniority, Dangerously In Love is not Beyoncé’s biggest selling solo album – that honour falls to her last album, I Am...Sasha Fierce, which opened at number 10 on sales of 38,610, eventually reaching number two, and selling 1,411,189 copies.
Dangerously In Love has sold 1,143,299 copies. Beyoncé’s second solo album, B’day, debuted and peaked at number three, with first week sales of 35,012, and to-date sales of 385,078.
Beyoncé’s incendiary set also created big demand for 4’s second single, Best Thing I Never Had, which debuts at number three (51,365 sales). It is Beyonce’s 16th Top 10 hit away from Destiny’s Child – a tally which doesn’t include 4’s first single, Run The World (Girls), which peaked at number 11 but which rebounds 38-23 (16,002 sales) in the wake of Glastonbury.
Beyonce’s 2006 number four hit Irreplaceable is also propelled into the chart (number 33, 11,693 sales), with most of its sales coming from a ‘live at Glastonbury’ recording benefitting charity. Another song from the new album – The End Of Time (number 62, 4,488 sales) also breaches the Top 75, while popular oldies Halo (number 60, 4,599 sales) and Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (number 72, 3,700 sales) also re-emerge.
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