Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade premiered as an HBO television special titled Lemonade in 2016.
The hour-long film debuted on April 23, 2016, alongside the release of the album. It combines music videos, poetry, spoken-word passages, and cinematic imagery into a continuous audiovisual work organized around emotional and thematic chapters.
The project features contributions from artists and writers including Warsan Shire, while its music incorporates elements associated with rock, country, blues, soul, reggae, and hip-hop. Its themes include betrayal, grief, anger, reconciliation, Black womanhood, and family.
Lemonade is sometimes described only as an album, but Beyoncé released it as both a visual album and a conventional audio album. It was her sixth studio album and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.