Beyoncé Drops New Album By Surprise

Music superstar Beyoncé has surprisingly dropped a brand new album on iTunes.

The self-titled LP, her fifth, features 14 tracks and you can download it here. It features collaborations with her husband Jay Z, rapper Drake, alternative R&B star Frank Ocean and even an appearance from her young daughter Blue Ivy. The album also has 18 videos to go with the new tracks.

The album release has come out of nowhere and only a few days ago, Chairman of Columbia Records Rob Stringer told celebrity blogger Perez Hilton that Queen B would unveil the album sometime in 2014 and "when she does, it will be monumental."

Here is the tracklist:

1. Pretty Hurts
2. Haunted
3. Drunk In Love (feat. Jay Z)
4. Blow
5. No Angel
6. Partition
7. Jealous
8. Rocket
9. Mine (feat. Drake)
10. XO
11. ***Flawless (feat. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche)
12. Superpower (feat. Frank Ocean)
13. Heaven
14. Blue (feat. Blue Ivy)

The Destiny's Child star only recently completed the mega Australian leg of her Mrs Carter World tour, which garnered her rave reviews. Read our Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney reviews now.

To read more about the covert undertaking that was in operation for the Beyonce album, read more here.