Beyoncé Unveils Tracklist for 'Renaissance' Album

Beyoncé's blockbuster new album Renaissance has gone straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart, Billboard reports. The album, released July 29, sold 332,000 equivalent units (a combination of 179.06 million streams and 190,000 album sales) and marks her seventh solo album to hit the top spot.

Beyonce‘s new album Renaissance has been in stores for more than a week and it officially has topped the charts for the first week of release!

Beyoncé has earned her fourth number one album this week with ‘RENAISSANCE‘ while The Cribs have entered the top 40 with reissues of their first three releases.Beyoncé’s ‘RENAISSANCE’ is her first number one album in six years and outsold its nearest competition by three to one, according to The Official Charts Company.Bey’s other number one albums include her debut album, ‘Dangerously in Love’ (2003), ‘4’ (2011)and ‘Lemonade’ (2016). As a member of Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé boasts another chart-topper with ‘Survivor’ reaching number one in 2001.‘RENAISSANCE’ also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart while lead single ‘Break My Soul’ becomes Beyoncé’s highest-charting solo hit on the UK Official Singles Chart in 14 years.Elsewhere in the charts, the reissues of The Cribs first three full-length albums all enter the top 40.

Beyonce has made several changes to her most recent album Renaissance, only days after its release.  The 40–year-old singer removed a lyric that was called "able-ist" and has now also removed a sample of Kelis' hit song Milkshake.MORE: Beyoncé stuns fans in silver disco dress amid album leakIn a statement, a representative for Beyoncé confirmed that the lyric in her song Heated, where she uses a derogatory slur, will be changed.WATCH: Beyonce makes history as women dominate at 63rd Grammy Awards"The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," the statement read. Disability activists criticized the singer's language including disability charity Sense, which called her use of the word "disappointing".The track Energy has also removed the sample of Kelis' Milkshake after the singer shared her anger at not having been asked for permission beforehand.

Carly Rae Jepsen has unveiled details of her upcoming new album, ‘The Loneliest Time’.The album will arrive on October 21 via 604/Schoolboy/Interscope and collaborators on the new project include include Tavish Crowe, Rostam Batmanglij, Bullion, Captain Cuts, John Hill, Kyle Shearer, and Alex Hope.Announcing the album on social media, Jepsen wrote: “I’m quite fascinated by loneliness.

Bad Bunny has been hanging tight at the top of the Billboard album chart for a consecutive seven weeks, but everything is likely to change next week when Beyoncé makes an appearance with her newest album "Renaissance." Beyoncé released her seventh studio album, "Renaissance" last week as the first part of her trilogy.The album is likely to be a number one hit for the singer. On its first day of release, there were a projected total of 275,000 and 315,000 sales and streams, according to Hits Daily Double.

Beyoncé confirmed she will remove an "ableist" lyric used in a song on her new "Renaissance" album following online backlash from the disability rights community. The 40-year-old artist will change the word "spaz" from the 11th anthem on the catalog, "Heated," to another, as yet undetermined, term. "The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced," a representative for Beyoncé told Fox News Digital.

Beyoncé is making a change to her lyrics in the song “Heated” from her latest album, , following backlash from the disabled community.On Monday, a rep for the singer told ET, “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” On the song “Heated,” ​Beyoncé sings, “Spazzin’ on that a**, spazz on that a**,” which has been labeled as ableist by members of the disabled community.  According to theNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes, spastic is defined as “a condition in which there is an abnormal increase in muscle tone or stiffness of muscle, which might  interfere with movement, speech, or be associated with discomfort or pain.

essay in The Guardian. It has led to the rewriting of the song lyric.

With all the commotion and excitement surrounding her new album, everyone wants to know: how much is Beyoncé‘s Renaissance about to sell?

Ethan Shanfeld New York City nightlife and drag queen legend Kevin Aviance didn’t know Beyoncé sampled his song “C—y” on her new album “Renaissance” until a friend reached out to him late Thursday night.“She sent me the track and the credits and said, ‘What is this?’” Aviance told me Friday afternoon. “And then my phone was blowing up.

Lemonade in 2016), , the queen herself posted a message to her confirming some important news to her legions of stans. The new album that just hit the internet was titled Renaissance: Act I, indicating that there may be additional “acts” to come. Sure enough, Beyoncé's note confirms that this album will be a three-parter. “This three act project was recorded over three years during the pandemic,” Bey writes.

Beyonce‘s highly anticipated album Renaissance has finally arrived!

she and Bruno Mars hijacked the whole thing from headliners Coldplay — the über-diva rocked a black bodysuit in a sartorial salute to Michael Jackson’s own SB XXVII performance in 1993.It was official: Beyoncé — the day after the surprise release of her hot-sauce-shaking single “Formation” — was the new Michael Jackson.And with Beyoncé releasing “Renaissance,” her much-anticipated new album, on Friday, July 29, it’s worth looking back on how she, just like Michael, became a pop icon after graduating from teen groups to solo superstardom. Also like Jackson: She was groomed for global takeover by her father. “You can tell now just how important Joe Jackson was to Michael and Janet in preparing them for their moment — and then when the moment arrives, them having to separate themselves from their father and move on to doing greater things,” said Andreao “Fanatic” Heard, who won a Grammy as a producer of Beyoncé’s debut solo album, 2003’s “Dangerously in Love.” “Mathew [Knowles] was the same way with Beyoncé.”Knowles always had his eyes on the prize for daughter Beyoncé to become the one-woman wonder that she is today. He managed the girl group Destiny’s Child — eventually made up of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, though there were others — which released its debut single “No, No, No” in 1997.

Kelis is not happy with Beyoncé after the 40-year-old singer allegedly sampled Kelis' song «Get Along With You» on her upcoming album, .After an an internet leak of the album made its rounds online Wednesday, a Kelis fan page claimed that one of the 16 tracks on the album, «Energy,» samples the song off Kelis' 1999 album,  Kelis commented, saying that she was not made aware that «Get Along With You» was going be used on the project.While the full credits for «Energy» have not yet been revealed, the composers reportedly credited on the track include Pharrell Williams and Chad, presumably Williams’ Neptunes bandmate Chad Hugo, who along with Rob Walker and the Neptunes, are listed as the producers for «Get Along With You.» Hugo and Williams are also listed as lyricists of «Get Along With You» while Kelis meanwhile is not listed as a producer, composer or lyricist on the track.Kelis shared her stance about the alleged sample via her company's page, Bounty & Full, by commenting on the fan account's post on Instagram.«My mind is blown too because the level of disrespect and utter ignorance of all 3 parties involved is astounding,» Kelis wrote. «I heard about this the same way everyone else did.

Beyoncé's highly-anticipated album, , is here, and nearly two days ahead of schedule. They beyhive was abuzz after a French fan posted a photo of Beyoncé's seventh studio album in CD format, causing fans to speculate that the album had been leaked.Shortly after news of the apparent leak broke, was able to obtain high-quality audio files that they say sound like tracks from the project.Songs titled «Alien Superstar,» «Church Girl» and «Cuff It,» all from Beyoncé's previously teased tracklist, began to make their rounds on social media, sending loyal fans into an uproar.Fans are already purchasing the new Beyoncé Renaissance album in France pic.twitter.com/f1pRKqKQac has yet to make its way to any of the major streaming services, and is still slated for a July 29 release date.ET has reached out to the singer's reps for comment.Just last week, Bey unveiled the 16-song tracklist for the upcoming album on her Instagram Story.In the video, which featured a countdown clock until 's planned July 29 release date, the track titles appear one by one until they are illuminated and sparkling in silver.

Beyoncé’s "Renaissance" album has apparently made an early release. The artist’s seventh studio album appears to have been leaked on social media on Wednesday, two days before the set release, according to Variety. Social media went into a frenzy with fans sharing mixed feelings over the alleged leaked release.

can’t break Beyoncé’s soul, but hackers broke her album release date. The 40-year-old “Irreplaceable” icon’s full album “Renaissance” — which was set for official release Thursday at midnight — has leaked online, and is even already being sold on CDs in Europe, Variety reported Wednesday. Reps for Beyoncé and the album’s distributor, Columbia Records, did not immediately respond to Variety’s requests for comment.Beyoncé released the tracklist of the album’s 16 songs last week and dropped its first single, the dancehall-inspired “Break My Soul” on June 20.