Beyonce's fourth-studio album, appropriately titled 4, has taken the honors of debut atop the Billboard 200, becoming only the second female artist to collect four consecutive top spot notches in BB history. The album's 310,000 copies sold last week put her in a dead-tie with Britney Spears whose streak of four number one albums ended in 2007 when Breakout came in at number two.
The album's sales were more than triple the nearest contender, Adele's 21, and also are the third best sales week of 2011, ahead of Spears but behind Lady Gaga and Adele. This marks some good news after rumors swirled that a pushback of the album's release was imminent. However, while the sales are good, they do mark her lowest first week numbers in her career as a solo artist, coming just 7,000 short of her debut album Dangerously In Love.
Wonder what next week sales will look like...
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