'Beyonce' is also the only album by a female artist since Taylor Swift's 'Red' (2012) to make it to the top of the Billboard.
The 32-year-old singer held the top spot with her latest release selling 310,000 copies in the last week of 2013 adding to an overall sale of 1,130,000 units in just 17 days.
English boy band One Direction bagged the second spot on US charts with its album 'Midnight Memories' selling 1,110,000 copies since release in November.
Rapper Eminem stayed third on the coveted list with his November release 'The Marshall Mathers LP 2'.
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