Beyonce brought music giant iTunes to its knees last night as it buckled under the strain of millions of her fans rushing to download her 5th album which she secretly launched at midnight. Two versions of the self-titled album - one featuring explicit language and another family-friendly version - are currently ranked No.1 and 2 of the iTunes albums chart. Industry insiders told US magazine Billboard the self-titled album sold 80,000 copies in three hours. Immediately after spreading the news of the album launch, Twitter was awash with frustrated tweets from fans unable to download it. The social media giant said their early data shows mentions of Beyonce spiked by 500,000-plus tweets after the stealth release. It said the news generated more than 1.2million tweets in 12 hours, with 5,300 tweets every minute at the height of the hysteria.
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