Brand Bey: Beyoncé fans flock to Ivy Park

You can tell a lot about a musician’s brand prowess by the titles their fans bestow upon them, and Queen Bey is pretty regal.

Beyoncé’s reign over the music industry has never been stronger; her latest album Lemonade continues to top the charts and conversations everywhere. Mrs. Carter has also taken her brand to athletic apparel with the April launch of Ivy Park. But does the love of Beyoncé pay those Bills Bills Bills?

It's difficult to quantify the love of Beyoncé, but we tried the best way we know: by analyzing the Ivy Park online purchases. The data proves they don't call her Queen for nothing: the week of launch, Ivy Park was the top-selling brand at Nordstrom.

Ivy Park isn't just an atheleisure brand -- it's definitely a Beyoncé brand. A whopping 40 percent of online Ivy Park buyers have also purchased her music, and a quarter of these fans own her newest album.

Another indication that Beyoncé fans will buy anything that bears her name is the overwhelming popularity of the Tidal streaming music service among Ivy Park buyers. Tidal,  whose majority owner is Beyoncé's husband Jay-Z, had exclusive rights to Lemonade.  A staggering 11 percent Ivy Park buyers also subscribe to Tidal, versus .6 percent of the total online population.

A quarter of all online Ivy Park purchases were leggings, making them the brand's most popular item.  The tank top that was prominently featured in Ivy Park’s initial advertisement is the second most popular item sold. However, Beyoncé's bodysuits don't move as well online as they do in the Single Ladies video.

Regardless of what fitness getup Ivy Park fans buy, they are spending an average of $129 per order, which is $163 less than what Lululemon shoppers spend, due to the relatively lower price points of Ivy Park clothing.

In case there was any doubt,  we also observed that Ivy Park's launch sales outpaced Derek Lam’s Athleta release and Kata Spade’s yoga debut. Bey’s brand sold nearly 20 times as much as Derek Lam’s line-up did over their respective launch periods; and purchasing power was eight times larger than the Beyond Yoga release; talk about a headlining act.

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