Lemonade
Lemonade | |||||||||||||
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Beyoncé's studio album | |||||||||||||
Publication |
April 23, 2016 |
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admission |
2014–16 |
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Label (s) | Columbia , Parkwood Entertainment | ||||||||||||
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Contemporary R&B , rock , pop , blues , soul , jazz , funk , country , hip-hop |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
45:49 |
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Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Kevin Garrett, Diplo , Ezra Koenig, Jack White , Wynter Gordon, Kevin Cossom, MeLo-X, Danny Boy Styles, Ben Billions, Boots, Mike Dean, Vincent L. Berry, James Blake , Jonathan Coffer, Just Blaze , Mike Will Made It |
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Lemonade is the sixth studio album by the American singer Beyoncé . It was released on April 23, 2016 on Columbia Records .
Lemonade is the singer's second “visual album”. The album features guest appearances from The Weeknd , Kendrick Lamar , Jack White , James Blake and the Dixie Chicks . Unlike their first visual album, Beyoncé , which includes a music video for each song, a one-hour short film for Lemonade that shows all of the songs and their associated videos aired on HBO . Just like the previous album, the release date was not announced and the album was released on the streaming service Tidal after the short film was broadcast .
Origin and career
Between the individual songs, Beyoncé quotes poems by the poet Warsan Shire from her debut volume Teaching my mother how to give birth . These poems form the backbone of the album , according to The New York Times . The first song to be released by Knowles Formation ; she sang this together with Chris Martin and Bruno Mars at the Super Bowl 2016. Beyoncé released the hymn Sorry as the follow-up single . This song made headlines because she addresses an alleged affair of her husband Jay-Z in the song . Other publications include Hold Up , Daddy Lessons , Freedom with rapper Kendrick Lamar and All Night . The album was also released in a limited edition book called How to make Lemonade .
Lemonade has sold 2,500,000 units to date and achieved platinum status in many countries around the world. Adele , Kylie Jenner , Lil Wayne , Ed Sheeran and many other artists praised the work on the internet. The presenter Ellen DeGeneres played the music video for Hold Up . Parallel to the release of the album, Knowles undertook a major world tour, the Formation World Tour , which brought in 250 million US dollars. Lemonade received many awards, including the BET Award for Album of the Year , the Billboard Music Award for Best R&B Album of the Year , the Soul Train Award for Album of the Year , the NAACP Image Award for Best Album of the Year, and a Grammy Award for best contemporary album.
All 12 songs on the album managed to get into the US and UK charts.
Reviews
Professional reviews | |
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Reviews | |
source | rating |
allmusic | |
The Daily Telegraph | |
The Guardian | |
The Independent | |
Rolling Stone |
The Musikexpress thinks the album is "a film full of disturbing visual music". In him, "the intimate is iconic and the personal is political". The Süddeutsche emphasizes the “merging of past and present”. Lemonade is a political statement, Beyoncé is “trying to come to terms with her own past”. She had "not only succeeded in making a varied and, despite historical ramifications, really refreshing pop record", but "above all a strong emancipatory act" that "one does not have to check for allusions to the state of marriage with Jay-Z". Die Zeit writes that lemonade is an “audio-visual work of art about the power of reconciliation”. According to the world , Beyoncés' album is "the greatest work to date, far more than a song collection, namely a classic concept album". It is "about racism, feminism and the question of how things are going to the marriage of Jay-Z and Beyoncé".
Chart placements
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments) |
Remarks | |||||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | US | R&B | |||
2016 | formation |
DE74 (2 weeks) DE |
- | - |
UK31 (3 weeks) UK |
US10
platinum
(7 weeks)US |
R&B6 (17 weeks) R&B |
First published: February 6, 2016
Sales: + 1,085,000 |
Sorry | - | - | - |
UK33 (5 weeks) UK |
US11
platinum
(20 weeks)US |
R&B4 (20 weeks) R&B |
First published: May 3, 2016
Sales: + 1,005,000 |
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Hold up | - | - | - |
UK11
silver
(12 weeks)UK |
US13
platinum
(14 weeks)US |
R&B6 (20 weeks) R&B |
First published: August 16, 2016
Sales: + 1,235,000 |
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Freedom | - | - | - |
UK40 (3 weeks) UK |
US35 (2 weeks) US |
R&B21 (2 weeks) R&B |
First published: September 9, 2016
feat. Kendrick Lamar |
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All night | - | - | - |
UK60 (2 weeks) UK |
US38 (2 weeks) US |
R&B23 (2 weeks) R&B |
First published: December 6th, 2016
Sales: + 5,000 |
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The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement: | ||||||||
2016 | 6 inches |
DE71 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK35 (2 weeks) UK |
US18 (3 weeks) US |
R&B10 (4 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: April 29, 2016
feat. The Weeknd |
Don't hurt yourself | - | - | - |
UK36 (2 weeks) UK |
US28 (2 weeks) US |
R&B16 (3 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5th, 2016
feat. Jack White |
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Pray You Catch Me | - | - | - |
UK52 (2 weeks) UK |
US37 (2 weeks) US |
R&B22 (2 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5, 2016
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Sandcastles | - | - | - |
UK57 (2 weeks) UK |
US43 (2 weeks) US |
R&B27 (2 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5, 2016
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Love Drought | - | - | - |
UK69 (2 weeks) UK |
US47 (2 weeks) US |
R&B28 (2 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5, 2016
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Forward | - | - | - |
UK85 (1 week) UK |
US63 (1 week) US |
R&B30 (1 week) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5th, 2016
feat. James Blake |
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Daddy Lessons | - | - |
CH73 (1 week) CH |
UK40 (2 weeks) UK |
US41 (2 weeks) US |
R&B26 (2 weeks) R&B |
Chart entry: May 5, 2016
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Track list
CD
No. | title | length | |
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1. | Pray You Catch Me | 3:16 | |
2. | Hold up | 3:41 | |
3. | Don't hurt yourself | (with Jack White ) | 3:53 |
4th | Sorry | 3:52 | |
5. | 6 inches | (with The Weeknd ) | 4:20 |
6th | Daddy Lessons | 4:48 | |
7th | Love Drought | 3:57 | |
8th. | Sandcastles | 3:02 | |
9. | Forward | (with James Blake ) | 1:19 |
10. | Freedom | (with Kendrick Lamar ) | 4:50 |
11. | All night | 5:22 | |
12. | formation | 3:26 |
DVD
- Lemonade - 1:05:22
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annie Zaleski: Beyoncé's Lemonade pushes pop music into smarter, deeper places . In: The AV Club . April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
- ^ Ray Rahman: Beyoncé's Lemonade: EW Review . In: Entertainment Weekly . April 27, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ↑ Alexis Petridis: Beyoncé - Lemonade review: 'A woman not to be messed with' . In: The Guardian , April 24, 2016.
- ↑ Samantha O'Conner: Beyoncé - Lemonade . The 405. April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.dbknews.com/2017/10/24/beyonces-instagram-lemonade-art/
- ↑ unknown unknown: Beyoncé: surprise for the fans . planetradio.de. April 24, 2016. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
- ↑ Amanda Hess: Warsan Shire, the Woman Who Gave Poetry to Beyoncé's 'Lemonade'. The New York Times , April 27, 2016, accessed May 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Kritsanarat Khunkham: Super Bowl Halftime Shows: The Best and Worst - From Beyonce to Coldplay. In: welt.de . February 1, 2017, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.musikexpress.de/beyonce-veroeffentlicht-neues-musikvideo-zu-sorry-580841/
- ↑ http://www.mtv.co.uk/beyonce/news/hold-up-did-beyonce-just-confirm-her-rumoured-joint-album-with-jayz
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/News/Beyonce-Neues-Video-zu-Freedom-12-10-2017-14063
- ↑ http://m.vogue.de/people-kultur/people-news/beyonce-coffe-table-book-how-to-make-lemonade-170818
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7541993/beyonce-formation-tour-2-million-tickets-250-million-dollars
- ↑ https://www.vip.de/cms/beyonce-knowles-gewann-bei-den-bet-awards-gleich-fuenf-mal-4118018.html
- ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
- ↑ Review: The Daily Telegraph
- ↑ Rating: The Guardian
- ↑ Rating: The Independent
- ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
- ↑ Davide Bortot: Review , musixepress.de, accessed on November 6, 2017.
- ↑ Julian Dörr: Beyoncé tells from the perspective of the loser - from the perspective of the black woman Süddeutsche.de, April 25, 2016.
- ^ Daniel Gerhardt: The lemonade afterwards time online, April 27, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Pilz: How to sink a pop masterpiece welt.de, April 26, 2017.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US US R&B
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US