Lemonade became the first visual album to receive a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.
Beyoncé released Lemonade in April 2016 as a multimedia project combining an audio album with a film. The work explores infidelity, grief, anger, reconciliation, family history, and Black womanhood through a sequence of songs and visual chapters.
The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. It also received nominations in major genre categories and won Best Urban Contemporary Album. Its visual presentation helped expand the idea of what a major album release could be.
Beyoncé had previously released the self-titled Beyoncé as a surprise visual album in 2013. That project is sometimes named when discussing the format’s origin, but Lemonade is the album associated with the first visual-album Album of the Year nomination.