Lemonade is the Beyoncé album built around a 65-minute film released in 2016.
The album was released on April 23, 2016, alongside Lemonade, a film broadcast on HBO. The film combines music videos, poetry, spoken passages, and striking visual imagery. Its chapters are associated with emotional and thematic stages including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, hope, and redemption.
Lemonade addresses betrayal, identity, family, Black womanhood, and resilience. It draws on multiple musical styles, including R&B, rock, country, blues, and hip-hop. The project also features contributions from artists such as Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, and The Weeknd.
The album is sometimes reduced to a story about Beyoncé’s marriage, but its themes are broader and include personal, historical, and cultural dimensions. It became Beyoncé’s sixth consecutive number-one album on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album.