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Beyonce's self-titled fifth album has been reportedly illegally downloaded over 240,000 times - worth around $3.8million to the superstar.
When the album premiered on iTunes earlier this month, it rapidly broke sales records, shifting one million copies in just three days. The "visual album" is iTunes' fastest selling ever album, and was exclusive to Apple's online music store.
Now, MusicMetric reports that since release, Beyonce's entire music catalogue was shared more than 2 million times over file sharing sites, with 239,131 of those were of her latest album.
It is said that if each album had a value of $15.99, then the pirated downloads would have been worth $3.8million to Beyonce.
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MusicMetric Chief Executive Gregory Mead said: "The usefulness of BitTorrent data is that it allows record labels to have an incredibly detailed insight into where their artists are popular – right down to the town.
"Although the file-sharing numbers may be high, it will be possible to translate many of these into buyers."
Beyonce returns to the UK in early 2014 for a string of live shows. Dates are below.
February 20 - SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow
February 21 - SSE Hydro Arena, Glasgow
February 23 - LG Arena, Birmingham
February 24 - LG Arena, Birmingham
February 25 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
February 26 - Manchester Arena, Manchester
February 28 - The O2, London
March 1 - The O2, London
March 2 - The O2, London
March 4 - The O2, London
March 5 - The O2, London
March 6 - The O2, London
March 8 - The O2, Dublin
March 9 - The O2, Dublin
March 11 - The O2, Dublin
Tickets are on sale now. For more information vist Gigwise gig tickets.
Below: the best bits from all 17 of Beyonce's new videos
