New York, Europe Brief News – US pop star Beyoncé announced her first solo album in six years, Renaissance.
The new album will come to light on 29 July.
It will be the follow-up to 2016’s Lemonade, a meditation on black identity that topped multiple end-of-year lists.
Fans had been waiting for the news ever since Beyoncé deleted her social media profile pictures last week.
She put them out of their misery on Thursday morning, by sharing the words “act i … RENAISSANCE” on her accounts.
Streaming sites including Spotify and Apple Music swiftly posted artwork for the record, offering fans the chance to pre-save the release.
If, as it appears, Renaissance is a traditional Beyoncé solo album – or the first of a several-part release – it will be her seventh overall, and the follow-up to her wildly acclaimed 2016 album Lemonade.
Since then, she has also released a joint album with Jay-Z, Everything Is Love, in 2018, and The Lion King: The Gift, the soundtrack she curated for Disney’s photorealistic animated remake of The Lion King, in 2019. She released a single, Be Alive, for the soundtrack of the film King Richard in November 2021.
Beyoncé fans were primed for the news after she deleted the profile picture from her social media platforms earlier this month. Her website teased a new project with the words: “What is a B7?”
