Apple® today announced that BEYONCÉ has become the fastest selling album
ever on the iTunes Store® worldwide with an unprecedented 828,773 albums
sold in just its first three days. BEYONCÉ also broke the US first week
album sales record with 617,213 sold and proved to be a global success
going to number one in 104 countries.
The self-titled, BEYONCÉ, is the fifth solo studio album from Beyoncé,
which was made available exclusively worldwide on the iTunes Store on
December 13 by Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records. The self-titled
set is the artist’s first visual album. BEYONCÉ is infused with 14 new
songs and 17 visually stunning, provocative videos shot around the world
from Houston to New York City to Paris, and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro,
all before the album’s release. The album represents Beyoncé’s biggest
sales week ever.
The iTunes Store is the world’s most popular music store with a catalog
of over 26 million songs and is available in 119 countries. The iTunes
Store is the best way for iPhone®, iPad®, iPod®, Mac® and PC users to
legally discover, purchase and download music online. All music on the
iTunes Store comes in iTunes Plus®, Apple’s DRM-free format with
high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio virtually indistinguishable
from the original recordings.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with
OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital
music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store,
and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with
iPad.
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