Beyonce’s New Album Sells Low In First Week

Beyonce‘s 4 album debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200 this week with 310,000 records sold.

4 is Beyonce’s lowest first-week sales for any of her solo releases. Her peak was 541,000 for B’Day back in 2006 and Sasha Fierce sold 481,000 its first week in 2008. ‘B’ however, is also making waves this week across the pond with 4 landing at the number one spot on UK’s album chart as well.

In other chart news, Adele’s ’21′ fills in the number two spot with 92,000 sold for a whopping total of 2.5 million this year!

Kanye West’s protege Big Sean debuts number 3 with Finally Famous: the Album is selling 87,000 records, after debuting at number one last week.

Jill Scott falls to number 5 with The Light of the Sun, with sales of 55,000, and the Eminem and Royce da 5’9″ collabo, Hell: The Sequel, slips three spots to number 9 (42,000).

Next week’s Debuts include: Cali Swag District and Cool Kids.
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