Lemonade is the Beyoncé album presented as a visual album with a film released alongside it.
Released on April 23, 2016, Lemonade began as an audio album accompanied by a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. The project combines songs, poetry, spoken passages, and visual chapters. Its music draws on R&B, rock, pop, hip-hop, country, blues, and electronic styles.
The album was inspired in part by themes of Black womanhood, family, betrayal, healing, and resilience. It includes collaborations with artists such as Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, James Blake, and The Weeknd. Lemonade debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and became Beyoncé's sixth consecutive number-one album in the United States.
It is sometimes confused with Beyoncé, her 2013 self-titled visual album. Both projects used surprise-release strategies and substantial visual material, but Lemonade is the title associated with the 2016 HBO film and album.