Beyonce recorded 80 songs for new album

It's no secret that Beyonce had been working on a new album for a while before the surprise release of Beyonce. There were leaks, promised release dates and tales of an entirely destroyed album. Still, it's insane to hear the actual amount of work that King Bey discarded.

"When I started picking the songs that I gravitated towards - because I recorded about 80 songs - it was the songs that were more effortless for me that stuck around that I still love that I loved a year ago when I recorded them," she said in a recently released mini-doc (part three in the series if you're keeping up).

Beyonce also revealed that "Drunk In Love" sounded like it came from a night of revelry because that is exactly what happened.

"I kind of freestyled the verse, and Jay went in and he started flowing out his verse," she said "We just kinda had a party."

Beyonce's album has been dominating the charts and the minds of critics over the last several weeks. She's on her way to a third straight week at number one.

(h/t to NME)