2 minutes ago, Pepo said:

Promo needs to start kicking in though. 

 

A few live performances can still do wonders. 

I'm assuming they have all that set to begin sometime in August. I'd love a late night interview slot with a performance (acoustic perhaps).

Edited July 26, 20224 yr by Planet Mars

A Beyoncé carpool karaoke would actually break the internet, I don't think she realizes that though. If she did one this week the album could sell an extra 200k first week off that alone.

 

I'm interested in the coming weeks after the debut though, Bad Bunny hasn't dipped below 100k yet, so a couple weeks in I see him becoming a bit of competition.

She worked so hard on this album and also on these countless photoshoots but she didn’t lift a finger to push it. This is why stanning a billionaire is painful. Everything is just a vanity project and we should feel lucky she even is releasing it 

11 minutes ago, swissman said:

It may just be the country I'm in but on Apple Music, the Standard edition exists for me.

 

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/bday/296790269

It's there on UK Apple Music too! We have the standard, deluxe and video versions of the album.

That one picture of her with her curly hair out (that's in the booklet with Cozy) would've been a pretty album cover too. It screams late 70s-early 80s classique.  

Ever since "act i" was announced I've had the fear in the back of my mind that there will never be an "act ii".  There's so many projects that are supposed to get a part 2. But I just tell myself that it's not Bey's style. She does everything she does with clear intention. She wouldn't say "act i" if she didn't mean it.

 

Although I'll still remain a lil paranoid until we actually get it.

2 minutes ago, Daydream said:

Ever since "act i" was announced I've had the fear in the back of my mind that there will never be an "act ii".  There's so many projects that are supposed to get a part 2. But I just tell myself that it's not Bey's style. She does everything she does with clear intention. She wouldn't say "act i" if she didn't mean it.

 

Although I'll still remain a lil paranoid until we actually get it.

It’s definitely happening. It’s not just something rumoured or she said in an interview. 

5 minutes ago, Daydream said:

Ever since "act i" was announced I've had the fear in the back of my mind that there will never be an "act ii".  There's so many projects that are supposed to get a part 2. But I just tell myself that it's not Bey's style. She does everything she does with clear intention. She wouldn't say "act i" if she didn't mean it.

 

Although I'll still remain a lil paranoid until we actually get it.

If she wasn’t sure about it she wouldn’t have printed “act i” on physical copies. “Act ii” is coming even if she flops, just like Black Is King.

1 minute ago, Shelter said:

It’s definitely happening. It’s not just something rumoured or she said in an interview. 

Yeah it probably will happen since she's plastered the "act i" thing on EVERYTHING this era. It's clearly something important to her. I guess I'd have a little more faith if her and Gaga had given us Telephone Part 2. 

I’m avoiding the album thread. People are posting videos and pictures of the booklet. I don’t want to see that. 

Act II could be the visuals and Act III the tour. My two cents. 

6 minutes ago, Mr. Specialist said:

I’m avoiding the album thread. People are posting videos and pictures of the booklet. I don’t want to see that. 

Yeah, only consistent safe spaces are here and the single thread. 

39 minutes ago, Planet Mars said:

I'm assuming they have all that set to begin sometime in August. I'd love a late night interview slot with a performance (acoustic perhaps).

I have a feeling Virgo season will def payoff for Virgos Groove. Bey would be foolish to miss the timing on that with it all being so close together. College freshman girls love this kind of song.

8 minutes ago, Mr. Specialist said:

I’m avoiding the album thread. People are posting videos and pictures of the booklet. I don’t want to see that. 

I think it was decided we'd keep the base clean, and post leaks in the album thread?

 

Base way more active, anyway

33 minutes ago, Blue Rose said:

She worked so hard on this album and also on these countless photoshoots but she didn’t lift a finger to push it. This is why stanning a billionaire is painful. Everything is just a vanity project and we should feel lucky she even is releasing it 

Or is this why we stan so hard, we love a mysterious queen? We dont want overexposed, Bey is like a rare Pokemon sighting and we love to see it.

 

43 minutes ago, swissman said:

It may just be the country I'm in but on Apple Music, the Standard edition exists for me.

 

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/bday/296790269

 

 

Ah, jealous. Yeah, US Apple Music only has the deluxe. Same with 4 and that terrible expanded edition 

4 minutes ago, Lose My Breath said:

I think it was decided we'd keep the base clean, and post leaks in the album thread?

 

Base way more active, anyway

Yea please. Its already exciting enough for people like me who want to wait to read the booklet is fire. I enjoy the wait till friday and love to feel save reading the base.

38 minutes ago, Blue Rose said:

She worked so hard on this album and also on these countless photoshoots but she didn’t lift a finger to push it. This is why stanning a billionaire is painful. Everything is just a vanity project and we should feel lucky she even is releasing it 

She did say one time “I am artist and I’m sensitive about my ****” one would think she would do a little more for her projects she works so hard for. I don’t get it 

Act II is definitely another album. 

9 minutes ago, Pepo said:

Act II could be the visuals and Act III the tour. My two cents. 

I don’t think so. Wouldn’t act 1 come after the album title and not before. Also you expect visuals and a tour with every era. There was no need to announce act 1 if that is what it is. 

Not those two new versions somehow making up the Spotify stream decline

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Armani? said:

Not those two versions somehow making up the Spotify stream decline

 

 

New peak before the album drop would be INSANE

Lizzo and maybe Harry are dropping at the perfect time. I hope radio continues to play it until it peaks next week. Top 3 looks likely to me. 

3 minutes ago, Armani? said:

Not those two new versions somehow making up the Spotify stream decline

 

 

She has the least streams in the Top 10, a radio hit