BEYONCE. After confirming her return with an album called “Renaissance”, expected in July, Queen B unveils the first song, “Break My Soul”.
[Mis à jour le 21 juin 2022 à 10h29] Renaissance has its first single. Beyoncé unveiled the first song from her new project tonight. A very electro title called Break My Soulreleased almost by surprise since the singer had simply written on social networks the enigmatic phrase “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET”, implying that something was brewing.
Finally the song Break My Soul was published around four in the morning, French time, on the YouTube channel of Queen B. A few hours only after its release, the video has been viewed some 1.3 million times… Proof of the expectations of the fans.
Thursday June 16, 2022, via the Twitter account of the Tidal streaming platform (that of her husband Jay-Z, editor’s note), Beyoncé confirmed the upcoming release of a brand new project, called Renaissance. This seventh album is expected in stores on July 29. In the message posted on Twitter, it also says “act 1”. It is therefore very likely that Renaissance or a multi-part project.
In addition to Tidal, the accounts of Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music shared the news. What, obviously, aroused worldwide enthusiasm, especially since Beyoncé has not released anything solo since 2016 and the album Lemonade. The Renaissance project would have 16 titles, according to the American site R&B Rated. According to the tabloid The Sun, Beyoncé “wrote all the tracks during the pandemic, when she was desperate and desperate to be on stage and with her fans.” The same source specifies that “this album and the promotion will be the most interactive since the beginning of her career, because she wants to go to the fans”.
The most observant have also noticed that on Beyoncé’s website, totally revamped for the occasion, it was possible to buy a Renaissance box, containing a t-shirt, a CD and a box with posters and a photo booklet. All for 38.95 euros. The rest will have to wait.