Beyoncé's album that includes “Love on Top” is 4. Her fourth studio album was released by Columbia Records on June 24, 2011.
“Love on Top” is an upbeat retro-soul song built around repeated key changes near the end. Beyoncé performed it at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, where she announced her pregnancy after the performance. The song later became one of the album's best-known tracks.
The album also includes “Run the World (Girls),” “Best Thing I Never Had,” “Countdown,” and “End of Time.” Its sound drew on pop, R&B, soul, funk, and adult-contemporary influences rather than following the more overtly conceptual visual approach of some later releases.
4 debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and became Beyoncé's fourth consecutive album to do so. The title refers to the album's place in her studio-album sequence, not to a release date or a track count. Beyoncé described the project as a move toward a more personal and musically eclectic sound.