Renaissance

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In 2013, she released the self-titled album Beyoncé, which was critically acclaimed for its experimental production and departure from her previous work. In 2014, she ranked atop of Forbes'​ Celebrity 100 was listed among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti falls to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 after seven nonconsecutive weeks atop the list (104,000 equivalent album units earned; up 7%). On the Aug. 20-dated chart, the album will benefit from its wide CD release on Aug. 5.

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On June 14, the British magazine The Sun reported Beyoncé was working on UK pop-up shows to promote the album and revealed a source told them the project was mostly worked through the pandemic. Beyoncé herself later confirmed this for Break My Soul” was intentionally released to align with the summer solstice on 21 June and mark the start of a “new era with new anthems”, as reported by Pitchfork. But there is another meaningful date the song release coincides with: Bey’s debut album Dangerously In Love came out on 20 June 2003, the record that saw her become the queen of both pop and R&B – as well as dabbling in country and rap. Looks like she might be closing that chapter, and taking over as the queen of dance imminently. The album took two years of sleepless nights In 2022, the only album with a larger week, by equivalent album units earned, has been the debut frame of Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, which launched with 521,000 on the June 4-dated chart. Thus, Columbia has the two biggest weeks of 2022, as Harry’s House was issued through Erskine/Columbia. (As noted earlier, Renaissance has the biggest week of 2022 among albums by women. It surpasses the debut frame of Lizzo’s Special, which earned 69,000 units in the week ending July 21, reflected on the July 30-dated chart.)

There are 16 tracks – with even more to come

RENAISSANCE is Beyoncé’s seventh studio album. On June 16, 2022 — the four-year anniversary of EVERYTHING IS LOVE, her collaborative album with her husband JAY-Z, Beyoncé announced the project through her social media bios: The title of the project was being hinted at since 2021, on an August interview with Harper’s Bazaar Beyoncé said the following after being asked about new music: The full credits were released on 21 July, which show that the album includes features from Jay-Z, Drake, Skrillex, 070 Shake, The-Dream and Tems (!) along with samples of Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Teena Marie and James Brown. Get ready to get down! The dates are meaningful In the 2018 book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric, professor and musician Madison Moore captures the innovation of certain queer aesthetics: “The fact that beautiful eccentrics put themselves on the line every day despite the odds shows how important they are not only as aesthetic geniuses but political activists too.” Beyoncé, of course, has a gigantic bank account and a team of people to help her look extravagant—“It should cost a billion to look that good/But she make it look easy ’cause she got it,” as she vamps on “Pure/Honey”—and to make the kind of fantasy she’s crafted on Renaissance plausible, from the Swarovski-encrusted imagery to the refinement of the album’s song choices. But using her global proscenium to showcase the work of marginalized people, as the political and legal scapegoating of their existences ramps up to a terrifying degree—including draconian legislation in her home state of Texas—is important, even a rejoinder to 2014’s big FEMINIST sign moment, a subtle kiss-off to people who’ve made vilifying trans women a cornerstone of their feminism by making space for all sorts of femme expression.

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With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again. I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible In terms of traditional album sales, with 190,000 sold, Renaissance posts the third-largest sales week for an album in 2022, and the biggest by a woman. The only bigger sales weeks so far this year were captured by the opening stanzas of Harry’s House (330,000) and BTS’ Proof (266,000).Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.