Lemonade

chronology
Lemonade
Beyoncé's studio album
Publication ; (s)	April 23, 2016
admission	2014–16
Label (s)	Columbia , Parkwood Entertainment
Format (s)	CD + DVD , download
Genre (s)	Contemporary R&B , rock , pop , blues , soul , jazz , funk , country , hip-hop
Title (number)	12
running time	45:49
production	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
February 6, 2016	formation
May 3, 2016	Sorry
May 12, 2016	Hold up
September 9, 2016	Freedom
20th November 2016	Daddy Lessons
December 6, 2016	All night

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
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
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Remarks
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
	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
	Freedom	-	-	-	UK40 (3 weeks) UK	US35 (2 weeks) US	R&B21 (2 weeks) R&B	First published: September 9, 2016 feat. Kendrick Lamar
	All night	-	-	-	UK60 (2 weeks) UK	US38 (2 weeks) US	R&B23 (2 weeks) R&B	First published: December 6th, 2016 Sales: + 5,000
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
	Pray You Catch Me	-	-	-	UK52 (2 weeks) UK	US37 (2 weeks) US	R&B22 (2 weeks) R&B	Chart entry: May 5, 2016
	Sandcastles	-	-	-	UK57 (2 weeks) UK	US43 (2 weeks) US	R&B27 (2 weeks) R&B	Chart entry: May 5, 2016
	Love Drought	-	-	-	UK69 (2 weeks) UK	US47 (2 weeks) US	R&B28 (2 weeks) R&B	Chart entry: May 5, 2016
	Forward	-	-	-	UK85 (1 week) UK	US63 (1 week) US	R&B30 (1 week) R&B	Chart entry: May 5th, 2016 feat. James Blake
	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

Track list

CD

No.	title		length
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