In reply to flawda.

Um. In today's climate, an album is considered a hit if it manages to sell a million copies domestically, and 4 did that. After 2008, every hit singer who put out an album and had been out for 10 years was bound to see the lowest sells of their career. That's just the climate of the music world now. Beyonce could've put out an album of bandwagon pop music, scored a bunch of hits and it still probably wouldn't have done much better than 4. Pop fans don't buy albums, they buy singles. And I don't think it's worth sacrificing your artistic integrity to follow fads just to sell a lot of singles while the album they're cut from still struggles.