Beyoncé is readying her big come back. The music icon has announced the reissue of 4, which is the star’s fourth post-Destiny’s Child project.

The re-issue will include The Original Deluxe edition with an extra 4 bonus tracks and a special DVD featuring the entire “Beyoncé: Year of 4″ documentary.

Beyoncé found musical inspiration at every turn, crediting everything from Afrobeat and DeBarge to Rage Against the Machine and the Jackson 5, ensuring there’s something for everyone on “4.”

She “recorded more than 60 songs” and struggled to find the right tracks.

The album is expected May 1st, a couple weeks before her shows at the new Revel resort in Atlantic City.

Despite just releasing her fourth album and announcing her pregnancy, Beyonce is already hard at work on her fifth studio album.

Queen B even enlisted the help of The Dream to produce the new album.

“She’s ready to work,” Dream said. “She’s crazy! She never stops doing anything. I don’t know if [pregnancy] is going to slow her down. She’s just incredible with doing things, I don’t know how she’s going to do it, she’s just a maniac . . . in a good way.”

Beyonce and The Dream collaborated on her mega-hit “Single Ladies.”

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If you’re one of the most successful and talented people in the world and are married to another one of the most successful and talented people in the world, there’s danger in releasing an album about how awesome your relationship is. But 4 works thematically because Beyoncé isn’t bragging; she’s singing about how she feels happy, at ease, and loved. Since that’s all anybody really wants, who could be mad at it? Beyond that, the record is a showcase of what Mrs. Carter-Knowles does so well, which is collecting great beats, singing her lungs out over top of them, and offering something for everybody along the way. You’ve got the so-thumping-it’s-almost-silly club banger (“Countdown”), the even-your-mom-loves-it tearjerker (“1+1″), the empowerment jam (“Best Thing I Never Had”), and a few more heaters. Personal contentment, it seems, has done wonders for her artistic restlessness. –Joe Colly

“The thrill of pop is its instant rush, yet Beyoncé’s fourth album was a refined record that showed she was in it for the long haul. ‘Ahead of the game’ … Beyoncé’s ’4.’

People who don’t like R&B like Beyoncé, so it was understandably confusing when her fourth solo album turned out to be refined, straight-up R&B. Unlike most of her peers, who have spent the past couple of years chasing the Guetta effect – layering Euro-synths on pop-step woomphs to create homogenised commercial R&B – Beyoncé kept it classy. People complained 4 had too many ballads, it had no hits, it was nothing like the energetic Major Lazer-sampling first single Run the World (Girls). But that track was a red herring – a Single Ladies sequel suggesting ultra-modern glitches and more of the same Sasha Fierce-ness.

Instead, ’4′ ended up being a more muso affair, but without the death knell of dullness that term suggests. It was the sound of a pop star maturing, usually a polite way of saying “getting boring” or “giving up”, but which Beyoncé effortlessly pulled off. This was partly owing to her choice of co-writers/producers. Madonna has only just cottoned on to Nicki Minaj and MIA; as one of the biggest singers in the world, it’s a sign of confidence that Beyoncé trusted most of this to the-Dream. He wrote or produced (or both) its finest songs, from the blubby vocal-flexing showcase 1+1 to the dancehall-driven Countdown, and the twitchy, brassy End of Time, one of the few tracks she didn’t release as a single, though she really should have. The excellent, understated slow jam I Miss You, meanwhile, was a Frank Ocean collaboration, again putting her ahead of the game where others were trying to catch up.

When ’4′ was released in June, it got middling reviews. Beyoncé was riding high on her Glastonbury headline performance, having just wowed 70,000 people with her spectacular showmanship and a hit-heavy set. 4′s mid-tempo pacing and retro nods – to 70s funk and 90s soul, and even to Prince-style 80s pop on bonus track Schoolin’ Life – must have felt like a comedown, because it didn’t immediately seem like she was pushing things forward. But 4 isn’t immediate. Most pop is instant, chasing a cheap thrill; that’s what’s so exciting about it, but it can feel unsustainable, too. This is the sound of a world-class superstar, insisting she’s in it for the long haul.” – The Guardian

4 has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.

It’s an exceptionally quiet week on both the Billboard 200 albums and Digital Songs charts. On the former, Beyonce’s “4″ continues to reign at No. 1 for a second week, selling 115,000 (down 63%), while LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” (featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock) holds atop the Digital Songs list with 236,000 (down 9%).

According to HitsDailyDouble, ‘4′ has sold 111,464 this week and it’s still #1.

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According to mediatraffic.de ’4′ sold 511.000 worldwide!

#2 Best Thing I Never Had (Single Version) – 109,132
#5 Best Thing I Never Had (Album Version) – 63,013
Total this week for BTINH: 172,145
Overall: 432,887

#4 Love on Top – 90,000
#25 1+1 – 18,263
#26 End of Time – 18,222
#29 Party – 17,460
#34 I Miss You – 16,032
#35 I Care – 15,816
#37 Rather Die Young – 15,161
#40 Countdown – 14,897
#43 Start Over – 14,192
#44 I Was Here – 14,173
#47 Run the World (Girls) – 13,157

Total sales this week: 419,518

As expected, Beyonce’s fourth solo studio album, “4,” bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling 310,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.

It’s the diva’s fourth solo No. 1 — and fourth studio set to top the list. She’s only the third act — and second woman — to see their first four studio albums debut atop the Billboard 200. Britney Spears did it with her first four between 1999 and 2003 while DMX’s first five all started at No. 1 between 1998 and 2003

“4′s” sales launch is lowest of her four releases: 2008′s “I Am … Sasha Fierce” entered with 482,000; 2006′s “B’Day” bowed with 541,000 and 2003′s “Dangerously In Love” started with 317,000.

Of course, “4″ is thus far lacking a smash hit single, which could help explain the album’s softer entry. Its lead track, “Run the World (Girls),” peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the first time the first single from a Beyonce studio set has missed the top 10.

Still, “4′s” bow is pretty big for 2011. It marks the third-largest sales week of the year, after the No. 1 bows of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” (1.1 million) and Adele’s “21″ (351,000).

Also arriving in the top 10 this week is rapper Big Sean’s debut album “Finally Famous” (No. 3 with 87,000), Selena Gomez & the Scene’s third set “When the Sun Goes Down” (No. 4 with 78,000), David Cook’s sophomore effort “This Loud Morning” (No. 7 with 46,000) and Scotty McCreery’s Wal-Mart exclusive five-song (and $5) EP “American Idol Season 10 Highlights” (No. 10 with 40,000).

According to HitsDailyDouble, ‘4′ has sold 313,420 units in this chart week alone making it the starlets lowest selling first week figure to date.

Sure to be this weeks Billboard 200 #1, the album received an enormous promotional push in the US this week after the airing of the documentary ’Year Of 4′ and show stopping performances at ‘Good Morning America’ and last night at the Statue Of Liberty for the Independence Day celebrations.

With the final sales number set to surface tomorrow, the figure is sure to be very close in appearance to the figure published by Hits Daily Double.

By the way….
Kesha: Cannibal – 74.000
Jennifer Lopez: Love? – 83.000
Christina Aguilera: Bionic – 110.000
Katy Perry: Teenage Dream – 192.000
Rihanna: Loud – 207.000
Britney Spears: Femme Fatale – 276.000.
Adele: 21 – 352,000