Beyoncé’s 2022 seventh solo studio album was titled Renaissance.
Columbia Records released Renaissance on July 29, 2022. It was presented as the first act of a planned trilogy and drew heavily on house, disco, dance-pop, funk, and queer club-music traditions.
The album’s lead single, “Break My Soul,” became Beyoncé’s first solo U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single since “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” in 2008. Other songs, including “Cuff It” and “Alien Superstar,” helped make the album a major streaming and touring-era success.
Renaissance is sometimes confused with Cowboy Carter, which is a later album and the second act of the trilogy. It is also distinct from Everything Is Love, Beyoncé’s 2018 collaborative album with Jay-Z, released under the name the Carters.