Media Diary Week 2



Album Review

Beyoncé 4

The album 4 is the fourth album for the American singer songwriter Beyoncé Knowles. Beyoncé reportedly wrote over 70 songs for her album 4 and only 18 songs made the cut. The album 4 was released the 1st June 2011 by Columbia records. Beyoncé has sold over 118 million records worldwide as a solo artist which is a amazing achievement. Alongside selling over 13 million albums in the US alone. Beyoncé started her career as lead singer of the band Destiny's child who sold over 6o million records worldwide. Beyoncé's fans influenced her to name her album 4 because it marks the number of good things in her life such as her and Jay-z's wedding anniversary and birthday's being on the 4th.  

 

 

The genre of the album 4 is R&B, pop, funk and soul. The album received brilliant reviews from the music critics giving her feedback such as her using all different genres in her music and her strong vocals in every song. The song love on top won the Grammy 'Best Traditional R&B Performance. I found out about the album through social media such as Facebook and Twitter before it was released it was advertised on them websites. It was also advertised on iTunes asking if I wanted to pre-order the album, there was also billboards promoting the album and television adverts. The album was Beyoncé's 4th consecutive album to debut at number one on the billboard 200 chart.     

 

Track list

1. 1+1
2. I Care
3. I Miss You
4. Best Thing I Never Had
5. Party (Feat. Andre 3000)
6. Rather Die Young
7. Start Over
8. Love On Top
9. Countdown
10. End Of Time
11. I Was Here
12. Run The World (Girls)

Deluxe Edition:

13. Lay Up Under Me
14. Schoolin’ Life
15. Dance For You
16. Run The World (Girls) – (Kaskade Club Remix)
17. Run The World (Girls) – (RedTop Club Remix)
18. Run The World (Girls) – (Jochen Simms Club Remix)

 

I have a few favourite tracks from the album which are Schoolin life which is only in the Deluxe edition of the album but is a really good song. My other favourite songs are Best thing I never had, 1+1 and I care. The purpose of the album 4 is to hear Beyoncé's new music, the last album she released was in 2008 called I am Sasha fierce staring songs such as Single ladies and Halo. It was new music for the fans and showing that Beyoncé is trying out all different types of genres!

 

Personally I love the album and give it a rating 9/10 because nothing is perfect there is room for improvement such as including more fast tracks in her album, there is only a few in the album 4 that are fast tempo. I still listen to the album now and love all the songs because they are all different in different ways and catchy to sing along to. Beyoncé recently started her tour Mrs Carter coming to several places in the UK and headlining V Festival in the summer where she gave a great performance using her amazing vocal's.



Here is the album 4