Japan Gives Beyonce a #1 Album for Her 'B'Day'!

Japan Gives Beyonce a #1 Album for Her 'B'Day'!

Pop Icon's New Album, 'B'Day,' Hits Top Slot on Japan's International Album Chart Within 2-1/2 Days of Release

NEW YORK, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyonce's fans in Japan have been celebrating the pop music icon's 25th birthday by taking her brand-new album, B'Day, to the #1 spot on the Japanese International Album Chart in record- breaking time. B'Day rocketed to the top of the charts within 2-and-a-half days of its release on September 4, Beyonce's birthday.

Beyonce -- whose "Check On It" took home the MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video just last week -- celebrated the release of her eagerly-awaited B'Day with her fans around the world when AOL Music LIVE! delivered an exclusive, live broadcast from the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on September 5. Millions of fans have seen Beyonce perform hot tracks off B'Day as well as some old favorites at www.aolmusic.com/beyonce.

Beyonce is topping charts around the world once again with "Deja Vu" (featuring Jay-Z), the first single from B'Day.

A bona fide international sensation, "Deja Vu" is the #1 commercial single in Japan and the United Kingdom and has achieved #1 Airplay in Hong Kong and Korea. The track made it to #1 on the German Club Charts, is the #1 R&B Airplay song in the Philippines and is #1 on major stations in Indonesia.

Back in the States, "Deja Vu" peaked at #1 on the Single Sales chart, #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart, and #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart in the US, according to Billboard. "Deja Vu" was also a #1 song on iTunes.

A groundbreaking video for "Deja Vu," lensed by the world-renowned British director Sophie Muller (an MTV Music Video Award winner), was the #1 video on Yahoo!, the #1 most-streamed video at MTV.com, and the #1 video on MTV's "TRL" ("Total Request Live"). The "Deja Vu" video has also hit the #1 spot in the UK.

Beyonce's B'Day, one of 2006's most eagerly-anticipated albums, was released worldwide September 4 (September 5 in the US), in celebration of Beyonce's 25th birthday.

www.beyonceonline.com
Fan club: www.welovebeyonce.com
www.houseofdereon.com
www.columbiarecords.com

Source: Music World Music/Sony Urban Music/Columbia Records

CONTACT: Yvette Noel-Schure, Sony Urban Music, New York,
+1-212-833-4483, Yvette.Noel-Schure@sonybmg.com

Web site: http://www.columbiarecords.com/

-------
Profile: intent