Poor Beyonce. First Knaye West clowns her by saying Rihanna is the best thing that ever happened to her. And now her album, which dropped Tuesday, will fail to do the numbers she expected in the first week.

According to Billboard.com, both Beyonce and her dad have their hearts set on her double album selling 750,000-1 Mil. But first day estimates put the sales for I Am… Sasha Fierce at a paltry 500K-550K. Way too low for Bey and Matt’s standards:

“I think we’ll sell 750,000 to 1 million copies [in the] first week,” says Music World head Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé’s father and manager. “I know that’s ambitious with the declining market, but Beyoncé is so focused on transitioning from pop star to icon that we’re paying attention to every single detail.”

“I want to be an icon,” Beyoncé says. “That’s why this is a double-album. One side has songs that are more mainstream and another has my more traditional R&B songs for my fans who’ve been there the whole time. Some of it sounds like Barbra Streisand, Karen Carpenter and the Beatles around the 1970s.” Source

I didn’t know a double album is required for icon status. Can someone explain that to me?

Thanks to loyal reader Linda for the link!

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