Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed seventh studio album “Renaissance” has topped charts around the world and has accomplished an array of streaming records.
The new album debuted at #1 in the US on the Billboard Top 200 as the year’s biggest debut by a woman with 332,000 units in total. It is her seventh #1 debut on the album chart, the only woman to have all her albums debut at #1.
The album also entered at #1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa, and Brazil. “Renaissance” became the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day by a female artist in 2022. “Break My Soul,” the album’s first single, hits #1 on Billboard Hot 100. Beyoncé joins Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson as the third artist in history to have 20 Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist and 10 on the chart as a member of a group.
“Renaissance” has been the most anticipated album of the year as Beyoncé shifted gears and notified her fans of new music on June 15th through an update in her bio on her social handles, “act i RENAISSANCE July 29.” She continued the unconventional rollout with the release of “Break My Soul,” which arrived at Midnight on the summer solstice. Instantly addicting with a pulsating beat, with lyrics that urge listeners to claim joy and to “release the wiggle.” The single, a worldwide hit, has been called the song of the summer and an anthem for this generation.
Packed with rousing anthems that resonate with everybody, “Renaissance” is a culmination of freedom and escape that encourages unimaginable jubilation, agency, and movement with abandon. The singular intent of “Renaissance,” a reinvention of four on the floor, is to showcase music that stirs you from the soul and encourages your dancing feet. It is a celebration of a club era when anyone who felt like an outsider sought each other and formed a community of freedom-seekers to express themselves creatively through the rhythm, which we still celebrate today. Welcome to Club Renaissance era.
Coming alongside massive debut of “Renaissance,” the RIAA have announced the following updated certifications for Beyonce’s catalog.
6X Multi-Platinum Album – Dangerously In Love
6X Multi-Platinum Album –I Am… Sasha Fierce
5X Multi-Platinum Album – B-Day
5X Multi-Platinum Album – Beyonce: Platinum Edition
4X Multi-Platinum Album – 4
Gold Album – Homecoming: The Live Album
9X Multi-Platinum Single – “Halo”
9X Multi-Platinum Single – “Singles Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Crazy In Love”
6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Irreplaceable”
6X Multi-Platinum Single – “If I Were A Boy”
6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Drunk In Love”
4X Multi-Platinum Single – “7/11” (2014)
4X Multi-Platinum Single – “Run The World (Girls)”
4X Multi- Platinum Single- “Partition”
4X Multi-Platinum Single – “Love On Top”
3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Sweet Dreams”
3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Formation”
3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Best Thing I Never Had”
3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Sorry”
3X Multi-Platinum Single – “FLAWLESS”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Check On It”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Countdown”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “XO”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Hold Up”
2X Multi- Platinum Single – “Dance for You”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Diva”
2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Beautiful Liar” with Shakira
Platinum Single – “Ring The Alarm”
Platinum Single – “Déjà Vu”
Platinum Single – “Naughty Girl”
Platinum Single – “Baby Boy”
Platinum Single – “6 INCH (FEAT. THE WEEKND)”
Platinum Single- “All Night”
Platinum Single- “BEFORE I LET GO (HOMECOMING LIVE)”
Platinum Single- “End of Time”
Platinum Single- “Get Me Bodied”
Platinum Single- “MINE (FEAT. DRAKE)”
Platinum Single- “Pretty Hurts”
Platinum Single- “Upgrade U (Ft. Jay-Z)”
Platinum Single- “1+1”
Platinum Single- “Ego”
Platinum Single- “Listen”
Platinum Single- “Me, Myself and I”
Platinum Single- “Party”
Platinum Single- “Video Phone”
Gold Single – “Ave Maria”
Gold Single – “ALREADY”
Gold Single – “BLACK PARADE”
Gold Single – “Freakum Dress”
Gold Single – “Haunted”
Gold Single – “Heaven”
Gold Single – “I Was Here”
Gold Single – “Love Drought”
Gold Single – “No Angel”
Gold Single – “Pray You Catch Me”
Gold Single – “Rocket”
Gold Single – “Sandcastles”
Gold Single – “Superpower (Ft. Frank Ocean)”
Gold Single – “Blow”
Gold Single – “Blue (Ft. Blue Ivy)”
Gold Single – “Daddy Lessons”
Gold Single – “Freedom (Ft. Kendrick Lamar)”
Gold Single – “I’d Rather Go Blind”
Gold Single – “Jealous”
Gold Single – “Broken-Hearted Girl”
Gold Single – “Dangerously In Love”
Gold Single – “Don’t Hurt Yourself (Ft. Jack White)”
Gold Single – “BROWN SKIN GIRL”
The magic of “Renaissance” is also in Beyoncé’s soaring vocals, rich, soulful, at times vulnerable and laden with passion and purpose in what could only be described as “Sanging”. And it expands over memorable lyrics that are bold, heartened, urgent and categorically timely.
Just today, UB online premiered The Isley Brothers featuring Beyoncé “Make Me Say It Again Girl.”
Composed by Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley and Chris Jasper, “Make Me Say It Again Girl” was originally featured on The Isley Brothers’ platinum-selling, “The Heat Is On album” (1975), which reached #1 on both Billboard’s Black Albums chart and Billboard’s Pop Albums chart and spent 40 weeks on that chart.
UB First Listen: The Isley Brothers feat. Beyoncé ‘Make Me Say It Again Girl’
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