In reply to Cough Cough.

@Meme you should not use the phrase "let’s be honest" but rather "let's be dumb". It is not "honest" to disregard the highly successful / award winning visual albums like Prince's Purple Rain or Kanye West's Kanye West's Runaway or the Beatles' A Hard Day’s Night or R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet. Doing that is either dumb. The aforementioned sold more albums than Lemonade, made visual albums profitible, etc. Also, you cannot credit Beyonce with "changing the way albums" are released when the way albums are released really has not changed that much. Props to Queen B for being successful in her way of releasing albums but don't pretend like artists (especially signed artists) have the freedom or power to control when / how their albums are released. Queen B is a superstar entertainer and in a league of her own but let's not take away other artists' accomplishments or creativity just to wrongly attribute their accomplishments to Queen B. Even with the evolution of the "surprise album" that should not be attributed to Queen B when several artists did that before her and were very successful with it like Radiohead and Frank Ocean.