I love Beyonce but this album is not even close to 5 million.

And MediaTraffic don't only count from 11 countries, they count from enough countries for IFPI (the most reliable for global sales) lists to be a couple of 100k's (and not millions) ahead of them if anything.

Oh and Sony Music report shipments aka. what they "sold" to retailers, not how many people actually purchased it.

So this album could be at 3.1-3.3 million at most.