Beyoncé (album)
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| Beyoncé's studio album | |||||||||||||
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December 13, 2013 |
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2012–13 |
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CD + DVD , CD + Blu-ray Disc , download |
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66:35 |
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Ammo, Boots, Detail, Jerome Harmon, Hit-Boy , HazeBanga, Key Wane, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash , Caroline Polachek, Rey Reel, Noah Shebib, Ryan Tedder , Timbaland , Justin Timberlake , Pharrell Williams |
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Beyoncé is the fifth studio album by the American singer Beyoncé . It was released on December 13, 2013 on Columbia Records .
The first two singles from the album are Drunk In Love with Jay-Z and XO . Other releases are Partition , Pretty Hurts , Flawless *** with Nicki Minaj and 7/11 .
Emergence
Work on Beyoncé began in the Hamptons in the summer of 2012 . In January 2013, Knowles recruited Timbaland , Pharrell Williams, and the as-yet-unknown Boots as primary producers.
publication
Knowles released their album Beyoncé surprisingly on December 13, 2013 without notice. The album first appeared as a download exclusively from the iTunes Store . It was also released on CD and DVD on December 20, 2013 . There are 14 songs on the CD and 17 videos on the DVD. In some countries, a Blu-ray disc was included with the album instead of the DVD .
On November 24, 2014, the album was re-released as Beyoncé: Platinum Edition . The new version contains the CD and DVD of the normal version, two new songs and four remix versions, a mini calendar and a DVD with live performances from The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour .
criticism
Beyoncé received mixed media coverage. The world described Knowle's album as "a collection of plenty of sultry but otherwise sloppy ballads". The Rheinische Post, on the other hand, describes Beyoncé in its online edition simply as "great". Tagesspiegel sees the album as demonstrating Knowles 'claim to be a modern and relevant figure in the pop world, but criticizes Knowles' contradicting staging, especially in the videos. The taz also criticizes Knowles' contradictions, but praises her music and writes that Knowles has become an "album artist".
At Metacritic , a website that calculates various ratings from various US media outlets, Beyoncé received a Metascore of 85% based on 34 reviews.
Commercial win
Beyoncé debuted at number 1 on the American Billboard 200 album chart on December 15, 2013 . It is Knowle's fifth number 1 album in a row. She is the first female artist to have her first five studio albums debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The album stayed at number 1 for another two weeks. For over two million albums sold in the US, Knowles was awarded two platinum records . In the British singles charts , Beyoncé rose to number 5 on December 15, 2013. in the fifth week the album reached its highest ranking at number 2. On February 7, 2014, Knowles received a platinum record from the British Phonographic Industry for over 300,000 albums sold in the UK.
In Germany, the album entered the German album charts on January 3, 2014 and reached number 11. In Austria, it was number 12. In Switzerland, the album climbed to number 4 on the album charts there and sold over 15,000 copies awarded a gold record. Knowles also reached # 1 with her album in Australia, Canada, Croatia, the Netherlands and Russia. By 2015 the album had sold five million times worldwide.
Chart placements
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 Germany (GfK)
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11 (16 weeks) | 16 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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12 (9 weeks) | 9 |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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4th (22 weeks) | 22nd |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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2 (61 weeks) | 61 |
 United States (Billboard)
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1 (186 weeks) | 186 |
Track list
CD
Songs
- Pretty Hurts - 4:17
- Haunted - 6:09
- Drunk in Love (with Jay-Z ) - 5:23
- Blow - 5:09
- No Angel - 3:48
- Partition - 5:19
- Jealous - 3:04
- Rocket - 6:31
- Mine (with Drake ) - 6:18
- XO - 3:35
- *** Flawless (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) - 4:10
- Superpower (with Frank Ocean ) - 4:36
- Heaven - 3:50
- Blue (with Ivy Blue) - 4:26
DVD / Blu-Ray
Music videos
- Pretty hurts
- Ghost
- Haunted
- Drunk in Love (with Jay-Z )
- Blow
- No angel
- Yoncé
- Partition
- Jealous
- Rocket
- Mine (with drake )
- XO
- Flawless (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie )
- Superpower (with Frank Ocean )
- Heaven
- Blue (with Ivy Blue)
- Credits
- Grown woman
Platinum Edition
Songs
- Pretty Hurts - 4:17
- Haunted - 6:09
- Drunk in Love (with Jay-Z ) - 5:23
- Blow - 5:09
- No Angel - 3:48
- Partition - 5:19
- Jealous - 3:04
- Rocket - 6:31
- Mine (with Drake ) - 6:18
- XO - 3:35
- *** Flawless (with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) - 4:10
- Superpower (with Frank Ocean ) - 4:36
- Heaven - 3:50
- Blue (with Ivy Blue) - 4:26
- 7/11 - 3:34
- Flawless (Remix feat. Nicki Minaj ) - 3:54
- Drunk in Love (Remix feat.Jay-Z & Kanye West ) - 6:36
- Ring Off - 3:00
- Blow (Remix feat. Pharrell Williams ) - 5:10
- Standing on the Sun (Remix feat. Mr. Vegas ) - 4:34
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ BEYONCÉ Available Worldwide Now. In: PR Newswire. December 13, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Sandra Zistel: Beyoncé releases new album without prior notice. In: Focus . December 13, 2013, accessed May 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Anne Waak: Beyoncé, an icon with bad taste. In: The world . Retrieved May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Beyoncé's new album is great. In: Rheinische Post . December 16, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Ulf Lippitz: Operation Seelenheil: The new Beyoncé album. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 14, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Christian Werthschulte: New Beyoncé album: Perfection makes you sick. In: the daily newspaper . December 19, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ^ Critic Reviews for Beyoncé. Metacritic , December 13, 2013, accessed May 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: It's Official: Beyoncé Makes History With Fifth No. 1 album. In: Billboard. December 17, 2013, accessed May 14, 2014 .
- ↑ celebrity.yahoo.com
- ↑ a b c d e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US