The long wait for a new Beyonce project is about to end when the singer officially announces a July 29 date (with pre-save and pre-purchase options) for a project titled Renaissance.
It will be Beyonce Knowles’ first drop of new music since 2016’s Lemonade, which was itself a surprise release and her sixth solo album. “Renaissance” will be their seventh, although the second track “act i” suggests it is part of a larger or multi-part project.
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The “will she or won’t she” guessing had begun less than two weeks earlier, when Knowles wiped her social media channels blank and signaled that some sort of announcement was imminent. Then on June 15 the singer The BeyGOOd Foundation tweeted a message in honor of Black Music Month, posting a picture of iconic albums and captioning the collage, “Celebrating the brilliance and creativity of black musicians who have impacted the world through their art.”
It appeared that one of the albums pictured below right referenced Brandy’s “B7” album, which was released in 2020, but the members of the Beyhive didn’t need time to connect the dots and conclude that Bey’s seventh was coming .
Since 2011’s “4,” she’s been releasing music through her own Parkwood label in partnership with Columbia Records, the singer’s longtime home since the Destiny’s Child years. And as one of the biggest multi-hyphenated superstars on the planet — with 28 Grammy Awards and 79 nominations to her name — she’s not exactly tied to any music company’s timeline.
According to Luminate, Beyonce’s US solo album sales top 18 million; She has sold more than 60 million digital tracks and boasts an airplay audience of more than 60 billion. “Lemonade” sold the equivalent of 3.6 million track and song equivalent albums in the US, according to Luminate.
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