What do Beyonce fans get the girl that has everything? Well, despite album leaks and bad reviews they get Beyonce’s fourth studio album, 4 to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts next week, making it her fourth No. 1 solo album.
By next week Beyonce may sell 300,000 copies of her latest release. That may not sound like much but considering how few albums people are buying these days and the fact that many of us have heard the entire album online already I think Lady Bey’s still doing pretty good. Still according to Nielsen SoundScan the first week sales for 2008′s I Am… Sasha Fierce were 482,000 and 541,000 for 2006′s B’Day.
‘Run the World (Girls),’ has so far peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 424,000 downloads in the U.S., falling short of the lead single type of chart-topping hit Bey Bey had with ‘If I Were a Boy’ and ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)’. Even the super loyal Beyonce stans were disappointed by that single.
Could this be marking a decline for the favored singer who managed to be the top R&B/Pop singer in the hearts and minds of many, even at the times when she didn’t have an album out? What do you think?
Beyonce reminds me so much of Mariah Carey. They are both pop artists with amazing vocal abilities, but their music is just garbage. Beyonce promised that she traveled to the far corners of the earth to bring back a new style/genre of music that would reign in a new era. What did she deliver…the same random, confused, not pop, not R&B but just a whole lot of nothing. She had 3 years, unlimited resourcecs, a voice that is ridiculous and she delivered this $hit. The more Beyonce has control the worst her music and sound becomes. This is big thumbs down for me …hell I'll even throw in a big two down.