There are staggeringly few pop artists today who have used the album format as a means of expression, evolution and creative growth quite like Beyoncé Knowles.
From her super-charged debut Dangerously In Love - made with all the fire, passion and hunger of someone who knew that definitive solo superstardom was within their reach - to the highly-personal and political intricacies of 2013's BEYONCÉ and 2016's Lemonade (both forming two sides of a magnum opus duology that represents Beyoncé at her creative peak), Beyoncé has both refined and re-defined her stardom through her records.
And now with Beyoncé's slick, disco-indebted seventh solo album RENAISSANCE finally out in the world (and heading for dominance on the Official Albums Chart this Friday) it's time for us, thanks to Official Charts Company data, to reveal and rank for the very first time Beyoncé's Official biggest albums in the UK.
From Dangerously In Love to Lemonade, let's get into it... Bey's banger-filled sophomore record actually received two distinct and separate released over two years; the 2007 Deluxe edition contained a re-jigged tracklist complete with a host of new tracks - including the Number 1 single Beautiful Liar, a collaboration between none other than Beyoncé, Beyoncé and Shakira, Shakira.
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