Well this from a music critic from The Huffington Post. The nature of distribution of this album is also fascinating. Beyonce was released exclusively on itunes until Dec 20 (at which point physical copies were available in stores) and was sold only as a complete album. That being said, there were no singles released prior to the album and therefore, no audio marketing to anticipate the album release. No banners on city busses, no tv promo performances. Sales of Beyonce broke the itunes Store record for the fastest selling album ever on itunes and went #1 in 104 Countries. @The man....So there goes ur delusional nonsense false story of she would scared to drop the traditional way. Mooriah n her prime couldn't pull this off and if she tried this today the Hog will certainly flop.