Honestly, none of Beyonce's albums are classics. Classic albums have songs that impact not just the music industry, but drastically affect Pop culture in general. Yeah, Beyonce has monster hits like Crazy in Love, Baby Boy, Irreplaceable, Beautiful Liar, Single Ladies, If I Were a Boy and Halo, but those songs are classics simply because of their success, not because of there merit of a song. The crazy thing about all of those songs is they weren't even written for Beyonce. Halo was for Leona Lewis, If I Were a Boy for BC Jean, Single Ladies for Britney Spears, Irreplaceable was for MJB and Baby Boy was for Ashanti. Beyonce's albums have really good songs like Yes, Signs, Speechless, Flaws and All, Get Me Bodied, Smash into You, I Miss You and 1+1 but they're still not classics. If Beyonce really thought 4 was a classic, she would not have released songs like RTW, Countdown, Love on Top and Party as singles, songs which clearly have mainstream commercial appeal. She would've let this album stand on it's own merit like Gaga did with BTW. The only 2 singles that were actually single material were Born This Way and The Edge of Glory and possibly Marry the Night. But Judas and You and I were horrible choices for singles, which is why they weren't huge hits and Marry the Night, kinda flopped too. Gaga spoke so highly of BTW as a whole body of work and she realy let that album stand on its own which is why it sold 7 million copies with only 2 huge hits. Beyonce only really said "well I just to perform songs like this when I get older". Beyonce is a really good artist, but she's not a great artist nor a iconic artist yet. She still has a long way to go. Artists like Gaga and Adele seem to genuinely know music and what it's about and how to make it. Beyonce, IMPO seems to to do it just because. She's tries TOOOOOOOOOOOO hard to be an legend/icon, which is why the Grammys snubbed her.