Beyonce’s surprise new self-titled album has broken iTunes sales records, it has been announced.
The album, unveiled on Friday to an unsuspecting global audience, has sold just under 830,000 copies globally via iTunes, the exclusive distributor of the record for the first week.
The album has earned the coveted title as the Fastest Selling Album ever on the iTunes store, and has so far hit the number one spot in over 100 countries on the iTunes Album Charts.
The album surprised everyone when it appeared at just past 6am on Friday (UK time), without any promotion, confirmed singles, or trailers, or even a release date, whilst fans were in for extra treats when they found out Beyonce’s new ‘visual’ LP included an official video for every track on the new release.
The first official singles are set to be announced this week; Drunk In Love (the follow-up to 2003’s Crazy In Love) is confirmed as the first lead release, whilst it’s widely expected that Blow will also be unveiled as a concurrent single with the former. The video for Drunk In Love has also now been unveiled on Beyonce’s YouTube channel (below)
Beyonce is set to bring a fresh set of dates to the UK as part of a renewed leg of her worldwide Mrs Carter Show tour; tickets went on general sale this morning, with a further two nights added due to overwhelming demand (not least spurred on by the excitement of the new album’s release last week). The full dates for the tour can be seen below, whilst tickets are available now here direct from Ticketmaster UK and here from SeeTickets.
20th February 2014 – SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow
23rd February 2014 – LG Arena, Birmingham
25th February 2014 – Phones 4 U Arena, Manchester
28th February 2014 – London’s O2 Arena
1st March 2014 – London’s O2 Arena
2nd March 2014 – London’s O2 Arena
4th March 2014 – London’s O2 Arena
5th March 2014 – London’s O2 Arena **NEW**
6th March 2014 – London’s O2 Arena **NEW**
8th March 2014 – Dublin, The O2
Monday, March 9 – Dublin, The O2
Wednesday, March 11 – Dublin, The O2
