Beyonce breaks instagram record with pregnancy announcement

Beyonce has set Instagram ablaze with a record-setting post announcing that she's pregnant with twins.

The surprise news, accompanied by a highly stylised photo of the singer wearing lingerie and clutching her belly, notched 6.33 million likes less than eight hours after she posted it to Instagram. The post also has over 334,000 comments - and the numbers are still climbing. That already beats previous record holder Selena Gomez, whose Instagram sponsored post of herself sipping a Coke last June has garnered 6.3 million likes to date (and 250,000 comments).

We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. - The Carters

A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 1, 2017 at 10:39am PST