Lemonade is the Beyoncé album built around a film-length visual album released in 2016.
Beyoncé released Lemonade on April 23, 2016, alongside a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. The visual project combines music, poetry, spoken passages, and striking imagery, presenting the album as a connected artistic narrative rather than a collection of unrelated videos.
The album explores themes including betrayal, grief, anger, reconciliation, family, race, and Black womanhood. Its songs include “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. The project drew on multiple musical traditions, including R&B, rock, country, blues, and hip-hop.
Lemonade received widespread critical acclaim and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Some listeners confuse it with Renaissance, which followed in 2022, but Renaissance was not accompanied by the same kind of full-length visual film at release.