Beyoncé’s 2016 album Lemonade is structured around a companion film also called Lemonade.
The album was released on April 23, 2016, after a premiere on HBO. It is a visual album: its songs are presented alongside a one-hour film combining music, poetry, spoken passages, and imagery. The project is organized into chapters associated with emotional stages, including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, hope, and redemption.
Lemonade draws on R&B, rock, country, blues, soul, hip-hop, and electronic music. Its collaborators included Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, and The Weeknd. The project’s themes include identity, family, betrayal, Black womanhood, and resilience.
The title can cause confusion because Lemonade refers both to the audio album and the visual film. The album became Beyoncé’s sixth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.