I am ... Sasha Fierce

I am ... Sasha Fierce
Beyoncé's studio album
Publication (s)	November 14, 2008
Label (s)	AR-Express ( Sony BMG )
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Contemporary R&B , Pop
Title (number)	11
running time	41:46
production	Beyoncé, Amanda Ghost , The Bama Boyz , Bangladesh (producer) , Dave McCracken , Darkchild , The-Dream , Ian Dench , Jim Jonsin , Toby Gad , Rico Love , Ryan Tedder , Sean Garrett , Stargate , Tricky Stewart
chronology B'Day (2006) I am ... Sasha Fierce 4 (2011)
Single releases October 8, 2008 If I were a boy October 8, 2008 Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) January 20, 2009 diva January 20, 2009 Halo May 19, 2009 ego June 2, 2009 sweet Dreams August 24, 2009 Broken-Hearted Girl November 17, 2009 Video phone

I Am… Sasha Fierce is the third studio album by the American R&B singer Beyoncé . The release date in Germany was November 14, 2008. By the end of 2009 the album had sold over 2.5 million times in the United States alone. At the same time a deluxe edition of the album was released, on which five more pieces can be heard. The album earned Beyoncé five Grammys at the 2010 Grammy Awards .

production

Beyoncé recorded a total of 70 songs for this album between 2007 and 2008, which should show two sides of her. The record is therefore a double CD, CD number one is I Am…, which contains calm and very emotional songs. The record is supposed to represent the quiet side of the singer. Sasha Fierce shows the rocking side of the singer, Sasha Fierce is the alter ego of Beyoncé Knowles. Only Beyoncé can be heard on both records. In the US, the album was released on November 18, 2008 on Columbia Records .

content

According to the singer, one CD contains songs that contain mainstream music , but the other represents traditional R&B . For this album, she cultivated her alter ego Sasha, which she had already created in 2003, gave him the surname Fierce (in German roughly wild ), and dedicated a complete half of the new work to her second self. As she tells in interviews, Fierce is the person she transforms into when she is on tour , has photo shoots or gives shows . Beyoncé is only herself privately.

Track list

CD 1

1. If I Were a Boy - 4:09
2. Halo - 4:21
3. Disappear - 4:27
4. Broken-Hearted Girl - 4:37
5. Ave Maria - 3:41
6. Smash into You - 4:31
7. Satellites - 3:06
8. That's Why You're Beautiful - 3:41
9. Save the Hero - 4:43 (digital bonus track)

CD 2

1. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) - 3:13
2. Radio - 3:38
3. Diva - 3:20
4. Sweet Dreams - 3:28
5. Video Phone - 3:35
6. Hello - 4:16
7. Ego - 3:56
8. Scared of Lonely - 3:42
9. Why Don't You Love Me - 3:37 (pre-order bonus track)

publication

The album sold 495,000 copies in the United States in its first week. It rose from zero to number one on the US Billboard charts , making I Am… Sasha Fierce the singer's third album to make it straight to number one. Success in Europe has been limited. In Germany, the album made it into the top 20 . In the second week the record fell to 27th place on the German charts. This is the singer's first album that did not make it into the top ten of the German album charts.

The two releases If I Were a Boy and Single Ladies were internationally successful. With If I Were a Boy , Beyoncé placed third so high that only Beautiful Liar got higher in Germany. Single Ladies is the singer's fifth number one hit in the United States. After the first week, the album fell to number four in the USA with 277,000 units sold. The next week the album rose to third place with 157,000 CDs sold. The next single releases, Diva and Halo, were announced, both of which were released in January 2009.

Beyoncé with Jay-Z on the I-Am world tour (2009)

Singles

If I were a boy

If I Were a Boy was released on November 7, 2008 as the lead single of the album , which already reached number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 just through high downloads and high airplay . In the next few weeks, the song rose to 68th place. After the CD was released, the song rose to third place on the US charts. This makes the song the ninth Top 10 hit by Knowles in the USA. The song also rose to number one on the charts in Denmark, Holland, Israel, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden and England. If I Were a Boy also made it to number one on the European Hot 100 Singles. The song was awarded gold.

promotion

To promote the single, Beyoncé presented the song in several shows. Among others in The Oprah Winfrey Show , the World Music Awards 2008, Saturday Night Live , the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008, Strictly Come Dancing, Total Request Live, BET's 106 & Park, The Ellen Degeneres Show, The Today Show, The X Factor, Star Academy (France) and The Tyra Banks Show.

Music video

The music video for If I Were a Boy , directed by Jake Nava, is completely black and white . In the video, Beyoncé's roles and that of her husband have been swapped. Beyoncé gets up in the morning and sits down at the breakfast table. From the behavior of her husband you can tell that he must have prepared breakfast and wanted to have breakfast with her. She doesn't do this and then goes to work as a policewoman. Your colleague is a handsome man. Meanwhile, Beyoncé's husband is sitting at home and in the office. He calls his wife on her cell phone, but she does not answer because she is having a beer with male colleagues in a bar. That same night, the husband gives Beyoncé a pair of earrings that she wears while dancing with the handsome policeman. The man is very disappointed and jealous. When he confronts his wife at home, the roles reverse again at the point when Beyoncé says: “Why're you so jealous? It's not like I'm sleeping with the guy! ”Her husband's reaction (and hers at the same time):“ What? ”Now her husband says:“ I said: why are you so jealous? It's not like I'm sleeping with the girl! "; you now learn that the gender roles were swapped throughout the video and that the pretty colleague is actually a pretty colleague. From this "swap back" on, Beyoncé is herself again.

Chart (2008/2009)	Best placement
Ö3 Austria Top 40	3
German single charts	3
Swiss hit parade	3
British music charts	1
Billboard Hot 100	3

Single ladies

Simultaneously with If I Were a Boy , Single Ladies was released, the singer's fifth number 1 hit, which could only be placed through downloads. It was named the best single of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine. Together with If I Were a Boy, Beyoncé promoted her singles on the Tyra Banks Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show, among others .

Music video

The video for Single Ladies was shot by Jake Nava, the choreography was done by JaQuel Knight. Like If I Were a Boy , the video is entirely black and white . It shows Knowles as her alter ego Sasha Fierce and two dancers. At the end of the video you can see Knowles' cyborg arm. Many fans have copied the video and posted it on YouTube .

Chart (2008)	Best placement
Austria	22nd
United Kingdom	7th
United States	1

diva

Diva was released as the third single only in the USA, the song debuted in the US charts at number 96 and later reached number 19, making the song Beyoncé's twelfth top 20 single in the US. It was awarded gold for 1,000,000 units sold digitally.

Chart (2009)	Best placement
British music charts	72
Billboard Hot 100	19th

Halo

Halo was released as the fourth single in the US and third worldwide, and reached number five in the US, and went twice platinum for over 2,000,000 digital units sold. Internationally, the song reached the top ten in twenty countries. The success was as big as with single ladies .

Chart (2009)	Best placement
Ö3 Austria Top 40	6th
German single charts	5
Swiss hit parade	4th
British music charts	4th
Billboard Hot 100	5

ego

Ego was released as the fifth single in the US. The song is a duet with rapper Kanye West . The song peaked at number 39 on the US charts and became the album's fifth single to make it into the top 40. It was awarded gold for over 500,000 units sold digitally.

Chart (2009)	Best placement
Billboard Hot 100	39

sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams was released as the sixth single on the album. The song reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number five in the UK and number ten in the US.

Chart (2009)	Best placement
Ö3 Austria Top 40	17th
German single charts	8th
Swiss hit parade	16
British music charts	5
Billboard Hot 100	10

Broken-Hearted Girl

Broken-Hearted Girl was released as the seventh single. It reached number 14 in Australia, 20 in Ireland and 27 in the UK. It was not released in the USA.

Chart (2009)	Best placement
Ö3 Austria Top 40	38
Swiss hit parade	79
German single charts	14th
British music charts	27

Video phone

Video Phone was released as a CD single in the US. The video contains a remix version with Lady Gaga . It peaked at number 65 on the US charts.

Chart (2009/2010)	Best placement
British music charts	58
Billboard Hot 100	65

I am ... tour

→ Main article : I Am… Tour

Knowles' I Am ... tour began on March 26, 2009 in Edmonton , Canada to promote the album. The European part of the worldwide I Am… Tour started on April 26th, 2009 in Zagreb , Croatia and ended on June 9th, 2009 in London , Great Britain . On June 21, Beyoncé began the third part of her tour in the USA and ended it with four appearances in a row at the Encore Las Vegas , Las Vegas Strip . The fourth part of the tour began on September 15, 2009 in Melbourne , Australia and ended on September 24 in Perth , Australia. Knowles then traveled to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the UK to perform further concerts before ending the tour on November 24, 2009 in Belfast , Ireland . The last part of the tour took Beyoncé to Central America in spring 2010, where the tour finally ended on February 18, 2010 in Trinidad .

album charts

Chart (2008)	Best placement	Award
Austrian Albums Chart	20th	gold
German album charts	17th	platinum
Swiss hit parade	7th	gold
Billboard 200	1	2 × Platinum
British music charts	2	4 × Platinum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beyonce announces album plans for 2010 of November 24, 2009; Retrieved March 4, 2010
2. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Beyonce: Worker B ( Memento from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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5. ↑ Beyonce's New Single Halo ( Memento from February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Beyoncé in the Austrian charts
7. ↑ German Singles Chart ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Swiss Singles Chart
9. ↑ UK Singles Chart
10. ↑ Beyoncé in the US singles charts
11. ↑ [3]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ö3 LP charts up to week 19/2009  
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28. ↑ musicline.de / PhonoNet GmbH: Chart tracking - Beyonce . Musicline.de. Archived from the original on December 5, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 16, 2009. 
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