Lemonade is the Beyoncé album that presents a connected story through songs and films released in 2016.
The project was released on April 23, 2016, alongside a one-hour film broadcast on HBO. Its music moves through themes including infidelity, grief, anger, reconciliation, ancestry, and Black womanhood. The visual presentation uses poetry, spoken passages, and recurring imagery to create a deliberately unified narrative.
Lemonade includes songs such as “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom.” Its sound draws on R&B, rock, soul, blues, pop, and hip-hop, while its visual language references Black Southern history and culture. The album received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Listeners sometimes use “Lemonade” to mean only the film, but the name refers to the broader multimedia album project. The album was Beyoncé’s sixth solo studio album and followed her 2013 self-titled visual album.