Beyoncé’s album featuring the single “Irreplaceable” is B’Day. The album was released on September 4, 2006, Beyoncé’s 25th birthday, which inspired its title.
B’Day was her second solo studio album and followed Dangerously in Love. It includes songs such as “Déjà Vu,” featuring Jay-Z, “Ring the Alarm,” “Get Me Bodied,” and “Beautiful Liar,” a duet with Shakira added to a later edition. “Irreplaceable” became one of the album’s biggest international successes.
The song was written by a group that included Ne-Yo, Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, and Beyoncé. Its memorable opening instruction, “To the left,” helped make it especially recognizable. Although the song is often categorized as pop or R&B, its acoustic-guitar-driven arrangement gives it a distinctive sound within Beyoncé’s catalog.
B’Day is sometimes confused with the similarly celebratory title Renaissance, but the two albums were released sixteen years apart and belong to different stages of Beyoncé’s career.