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joining me live is christopher john farley, editor of "wall street journal" entertainment blog.uld this huge success be due to the fact that beyonce's no promotion approach amounted to huge promotion once the album was released, in a meta way. oh, my god, did you hear what she did. >> that's exactly right. what she's doing is not removing all promotion. it's really making the promotion transparent. within an hour of -- hour or so of this album being released, i had in my in-box a message from her publicist saying beyonce is taking her album straight to the people. she was reaching out to media but doing it in a different way because right now, the one thing that viewers and listeners hate the most about the media and about entertainment is hype. hype drives people crazy because the buildup is so nuts that by the time a big release comes out, you can't really appreciate it. it doesn't seem as good as all the type that came before it. so the way beyonce released this by focusing on hype, making it transparent, allowing people to enjoy it without thinking they have already been so

joining us now is christopher john farley, editor of the "wall street journal" entertainment blog speakeasynd author of "game world." you look at this kid, so much success at such a young age. he's 19, sold 15 million albums, he's worth an estimated $130 million. why not retire? >> for the very reasons you said. because of the millions of records he's sold, because of the millions of records he may sell in the future, i very much doubt he's retiring. this is a common thing in pop music. people get disgusted with the industry, overwhelmed with work and suddenly announce they're retiring. it's also used as a way to leverage whatever product they're trying to sell. remember jay-z retired to help sell his album, and of course came back out of retirement and is still rapping to this day. you never know about retirement in pop music. justin bieber issued this tweet about his retirement just as he released his new movie documentary, "justin bieber's believe" which didn't do too well at the box office. it was at about 1,000 screens and only pulled in about $1.25 million which is not very good. for