Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album centered on themes of Black womanhood and featuring ten songs is Lemonade.
Columbia Records released Lemonade on April 23, 2016, after a premiere on HBO. The project combines music with a one-hour film divided into chapters such as “Intuition,” “Denial,” “Anger,” and “Hope.” Its songs move through styles including R&B, rock, country, blues, and hip-hop.
Lemonade received widespread critical acclaim for its music, visual design, and treatment of race, marriage, ancestry, and cultural identity. It includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom,” featuring Kendrick Lamar.
People sometimes call every Beyoncé album with an accompanying film a visual album, but Lemonade has a particularly integrated film structure: the music and imagery were released as a unified artistic statement. The project debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became one of the most discussed albums of the 2010s.