Beyoncé is the name of the visual album she released in December 2013 without a traditional advance announcement.
The self-titled album arrived exclusively through the iTunes Store on December 13, 2013. Beyoncé described it as a visual album because every one of its fourteen songs was accompanied by a video. The surprise release strategy attracted enormous attention and changed expectations for how major artists could launch albums.
The record includes songs such as “Drunk in Love,” featuring Jay-Z, “Partition,” and “Flawless.” It combines R&B, pop, hip-hop, and electronic influences while presenting themes of intimacy, identity, sexuality, and motherhood.
The album is often confused with Lemonade, another Beyoncé visual album released in 2016. Beyoncé is also the artist’s name, so the title can look unusual in a discography list; its official styling is commonly shown as Beyoncé, sometimes with a parenthetical subtitle in reference materials.