Since her last solo studio LP and accompanying movie Lemonade (2016), Beyoncé has captivated fans with a number of ambitious projects.
In 2018, she performed as one of the headliners at the Coachella Festival. There her show was widely hailed as a triumph, paying homage to her band’s tradition of marching in historically black colleges and universities. pop and frame it squarely in the genealogy of Southern Black musical traditions,” writes New York Times critic John Caramanica. The performance was later made into a Netflix special and album, both titled “Homecoming”.
Also in 2018, Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z released a joint album, Everything Is Love, credited to The Carters. And she said in June 2020, when nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder culminated, she said, “Raise her fist in the air and show your black love.” released the song “Black Parade”, which includes the lines of
“Black Parade” won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance the following year. With his one of her four awards that night, Beyoncé’s career reached her 28th. This year, Beyoncé was nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards for “Be Alive,” from King Richard, a biopic about the father of Venus and Serena Williams.
It remains unclear how early leaks will affect the commercial prospects of ‘Renaissance’. had. But the move to streaming has mitigated that danger.
And Beyoncé, like most other artists today, is taking pre-orders for physical copies of her albums, which will be counted on the charts as soon as they ship (usually the week of release). On Beyoncé’s website, his four box sets of “Renaissance” and its limited edition vinyl have sold out.