Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album about infidelity, race, and womanhood is titled Lemonade.
Lemonade was released on April 23, 2016, after a one-hour film of the same name premiered on HBO. The album combines R&B, pop, rock, country, blues, and soul, giving its songs a deliberately broad musical palette. Its visual presentation follows a poetic narrative divided into chapters such as “Intuition,” “Denial,” and “Redemption.”
The project was widely interpreted as exploring personal betrayal alongside larger histories of Black women, family, and the American South. Songs including “Formation,” “Sorry,” and “Daddy Lessons” became especially prominent parts of the album’s cultural conversation.
Lemonade is sometimes described only as a studio album, but its defining format is visual as well as musical. It was Beyoncé’s sixth studio album and became her sixth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200.