Lemonade is the Beyoncé album known for its visual narrative about infidelity, healing, and Black womanhood.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth studio album. It was accompanied by Lemonade, a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. The project combines songs, poetry, spoken passages, and imagery into a chapter-based story moving through emotions such as anger, apathy, hope, and redemption.
The album includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. Its subject matter prompted widespread discussion about marriage, ancestry, race, feminism, and African American cultural identity.
Listeners sometimes identify “Sorry” alone as Lemonade’s central statement, but the album is a larger sequence rather than a single-song narrative. Lemonade received critical acclaim and won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. It also earned a nomination for Album of the Year.