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American pop singer Beyonce [surprised / surprising] her fans on Friday. She released her fifth album without telling [no one / anyone] . The album was one of the biggest [secrecy / secrets] in music history. Beyonce wanted to try a new way of [releases / releasing] her music. She did not want to advertise it weeks or months [before / behind] it came out. She wanted to tell her fans about the album [themselves / herself] . She did not want to let record company [executive / executives] or newspapers tell them. The release was [ever / even] a surprise for other celebrities and singers. She said: "There's [such / so] much that gets between the music, the artist and the fans. I felt like I didn’t want anybody to give the message when my record is coming [out / in] ."

Beyonce released her new album [excluded / exclusively] on iTunes, which means people can only [upload / download] it from that site. It contains 14 new songs and 17 videos. She [filmed / films] the videos in different parts of the world. She said she wanted to do something people [wouldn't / would] remember. She remembers being very [exciting / excited] when Michael Jackson released his Thriller video and wanted to do something [similarity / similar] . She said: "I feel like [right / left] now people experience music differently." The album sold 80,000 copies [in / on] the first three hours of its release. Sales were [helping / helped] by millions of people tweeting about the album. There were more than 1.2 million tweets in the first 12 hours. That's [around / round] 5,300 tweets a minute.