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Beyonce releases surprise new ‘visual album’

Beyonce fans have been on red alert since Columbia Records chairman Rob Stringer said earlier this week that “obviously, at some point Beyonce will put a record out, and when she does it will be monumental”.

Now, everyone took that to mean Bey would be putting out the follow-up to 2011’s all-conquering 4 probably at some point early next year – seeing as so far there has been no promotion of a new album. No-one could have imagined a new album would be out by the end of the week, but that’s what has just happened!

Beyonce has just released a brand new self-titled album on iTunes, and released a trailer video on Facebook describing it as a ‘visual album’, with each track coming with an accompanying video.

Here’s the video: