In reply to Truth.

@Jasmine. Gotta disagree with you on this one. There's a difference between success and impact. You don't have to be the first or the most successful to be more influential. Beyonce isn't credited with being the first, she's credited with popularizing it. This is like 2 generations past Michael and Prince. There's nothing no one has done before. Things go out of style and they come back in. She made it a trend for her time. In this decade, the most popular artist usually gets the most press. That's the way the world works. Regardless of who started it. Kanye's visual was no where near as newsworthy. As for the surprise album, Frank's album was hardly talked about for it's release strategy. It was talked about because it was good music. He wasn't big enough at the time. Radiohead gave a 10 day notice that their album was coming. But I'd still give that credit to them and Beyonce. But if you were to just look surprise releases, publications acknowledge Radiohead, but they'll will say it was 'Beyonce' that got the ball rolling. You can't tell me it's a coincidence that Kendrick, Rihanna, Drake, and Kanye just so happened to jump on the surprise train with no knowledge of the headlines Beyonce had just made with it.