Freed from her label-mandated pace, Beyoncé made her most musicianly record: "Love on Top"'s key-change staircase, "Countdown"'s rhythmic obstacle course, "1+1"'s bare-wire devotion. 4 sold less than its predecessors and aged better than most of them — the pivot point where catalog began outranking charts.
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