While we weren’t looking, Beyoncé went and broke another music record. MTV noted that Queen Bey had broken a Spotify record, becoming the first woman with three albums surpassing a billion streams. The albums are: 4, I am… Sasha Fierce, and Beyoncé. — J. Holiday slams Beyoncé, SZA in rant about the disrespect of Black men in music — Once 4 passed the billion mark, it was the third album to do so, giving Beyoncé the record. “Run the World (Girls),” and “Love on Top,” both of which were on the album, accounted for 400 million streams alone.

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