Beyoncé's 4 wins the album chart numbers game

4+21+19 = a unique situation in the artist album chart where, for the first time ever, the titles of three of the top five albums are made up entirely of numbers.

Adele contributes 10 times as much to this numerical novelty as Beyoncé but it is the latter that emerges, with the bigger prize and the smaller number, with 4 ranking one, 21 ranking two and 19 ranking five.

As its title suggests, 4 is Beyoncé’s fourth regular studio album - its release perfectly timed to coincide with Beyoncé’s appearance her critically-acclaimed Glastonbury set, which occupied 90 minutes of BBC2 airtime on Sunday night.

The album made a fast start, and sold 89,211 copies to become Beyoncé ’s second solo number one, eight years to the week after her first solo album, Dangerously In Love, dashed to the summit on first week sales of 113,117.

Beyonce - Best Thing I Never Had

This is fire! Check out the premiere of "Best Thing I Never Had", the official second single by R&B star Beyonce from her upcoming album '4' which will hit stores on June 28th, 2011 - "Best Thing I Never Had" is a powerful piano-driven ballad in which Beyonce 'thanks God' she didn't end up with a guy that didn't deserve her. Poor dude gets told off by Queen B! This is gonna be Beyonce's new "Irreplaceable". So good.