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Beyoncé fans say songs missing from Cowboy Carter vinyl and CDs

Some physical editions lack up to five tracks that come with the digital download, say fans

Variety reported that fans who complained directly to the album’s retailer received an automated response that their concerns would be answered in three to four days due to a “higher volume of emails than usual”. Many speculated that Beyoncé continued to change and add songs late into the process, and that the vinyl edition – which would have been pressed with a long lead time of “10 weeks to six months”, according to the BBC – contains an earlier version of the album. Some believe that Cowboy Carter was originally titled Beyincé – a reference to the musician’s ancestral surname which was misspelt as Beyoncé on her mother’s birth certificate due to a clinical error.

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