Alert American music fans monitoring social media in the wee hours of Friday, December 13th, became—for a few hours anyway—the most newsworthy fan base in the world. Somewhere around midnight on either Thursday or Friday depending on the time zone, Beyoncé—in the words of Consequence of Sound’s editor-in-chief Michael Roffman —“simply uploaded her fifth, eponymous-titled album to iTunes, complete with 17 videos to accompany the album’s […]