Lemonade is the Beyoncé album that tells its story through interconnected music videos.
Released in 2016, Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth solo studio album and a multimedia project built around a one-hour film. HBO premiered the film on April 23, 2016, and the album became available digitally the following day.
The visual work is organized into chapters named for emotional and spiritual stages, including intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reform, forgiveness, hope, and redemption. Its music draws on R&B, rock, country, blues, pop, and hip-hop, while its imagery explores Black womanhood, family, ancestry, and resilience.
Lemonade includes “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up,” and “Freedom,” featuring Kendrick Lamar. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and received the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album. The title refers to a line about turning difficult circumstances into something sustaining.