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Beyoncé has blessed our ears once more by giving the BeyHive a first taste of her upcoming album Renaissance with her new single "Break My Soul," which ...

“Break My Soul” arrives two days after the Juneteenth holiday. Since her last solo album, she dropped a joint album with husband JAY-Z, Everything Is Love, in 2018 and the The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack and Homecoming: The Live Album both in 2019. The house-tinged new song is dance-floor ready, with its piano production, crisp snares and Bey harmonizing with herself.

UPDATED: Beyoncé dropped her first single from her upcoming album Renaissance a little early. The song, “Break My Soul," was supposed to drop at midnight ET ...

Fans had been tipped off that something was possibly afoot when the singer deleted the profile pictures and bios from her social media accounts earlier this month. The song, “ Break My Soul,” was supposed to drop at midnight ET, but instead went up on Tidal, the streaming platform once owned by her husband Jay-Z, just before 10 pm ET. PREVIOUSLY: Beyoncé will release her new single “Break My Soul” from the upcoming album Renaissance at midnight ET tonight.

Beyoncé will release 'Break My Soul,' the first song from her forthcoming album, 'Renaissance,' tonight. Here's how to listen.

Just the way she likes it.” A link to purchase the digital single (and have it be delivered via email) has also been posted on Beyoncé's website. I want to get up and start throwing moves.

The song, which is from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album, "Renaissance," will drop at midnight EDT.

"Renaissance" will be Beyoncé's seventh solo album. Beyoncé made the announcement by changing the bio on her social media accounts to "6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET," suggesting that the song will be the sixth track on the album. "Break My Soul," the first song from Beyoncé's forthcoming seventh album, "Renaissance," will drop at midnight EDT, the singer announced on social media Monday.

The Big Freedia-sampling track is the first single from her upcoming 'Renaissance' album, set for a July 29 release.

“Break My Soul” is Beyoncé’s first single from a solo studio album since “Lemonade” in 2016. The singer has revealed little about “Renaissance,” which is due July 29, though Variety reported last week that the LP pulls from dance music and country music and contains input from producers Ryan Tedder and Raphael Saadiq. “The queens in the front and the doms in the back,” she sings, connecting this music explicitly to its roots in Black and queer communities, “Ain’t takin’ no flicks but the whole clique snapped.”

The first preview from her new album Renaissance samples Robin S.' classic house cut “Show Me Love”

The Williams siblings introduced the video, which featured appearances from Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy and a troupe of dancers. She also released The Lion King: The Gift in 2019. Renaissance will mark Beyoncé’s first solo studio album since Lemonade. Since sharing that LP in April 2016, she has collaborated with her husband Jay-Z on Everything Is Love and released Homecoming: The Live Album, capturing her iconic 2018 Coachella performance. The track was produced by Beyoncé, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, BlaqNmilD, and Jay-Z. Big Freedia, Allen George and Fred McFarlane—who wrote “Show Me Love”—are listed as co-writers. The record is seemingly subtitled “Act I.” According to an unverified tweet from the fan account Beyoncé Legion, Renaissance is a 16-song album. As promised, Beyoncé has released the new song “ Break My Soul.” The track features two prominent samples: a modified synth melody from Robin S.’ classic house hit “Show Me Love” and a vocal lifted from Big Freedia’s “ Explode,” from the 2014 LP Just Be Free: “Release ya anger/Release ya mind/Release ya job/Release the time/Release ya trade/Release ya stress/Release the love/Forget the rest.” Listen to “Break My Soul” below.

Queen Bey is back, and the BeyHive is buzzing! Beyonce's forthcoming album Renaissance is expected to drop July 29, that much we know, thanks to cryptic ...

“RELEASE THE LOVE” “RELEASE THE TIME” Renaissance is the followup to 2016’s LP Lemonade, Beyonce’s sixth straight leader on the Billboard 200 chart.

CDs Are Back! Listen to New Music From Beyoncé, BTS & More With These Portable CD Players. Whether you belong to Beyoncé's BeyHive or the BTS Army, here's why ...

The JENSEN CD-60R Portable CD Player retails for less than $30. This slim unit has a compact, lightweight design and features 60 second anti-skip protection and digital LCD display, along with the usual skip/search, play/pause and repeat functions, and programmable memory. The portable CD player operates on 2 AA batteries (buy them here) and has an automatic power off feature, so you do won’t have to worry about draining the batteries. For a cheaper option from the same brand try the Hott 204 CD player on sale for $49.99 (regular $99). Suitable for home or on-the-go, this portable CD player from Lukasa offers up high-fidelity and clear sound, with stereo earbuds. BTS hopped on the seemingly retro trend with the release of their heavily anticipated Proof album, and Beyoncé is the latest music megastar to usher in a CD revival by way of her forthcoming seventh studio album Renaissance, out July 29. According to data compiled by the RIAA, CD sales spiked to 46.6 million in 2021, which is a 47.7 percent increase from the previous year.

It's from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album, "Renaissance."

"Renaissance" will be Beyoncé's seventh solo album. Beyoncé made the announcement by changing the bio on her social media accounts to "6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET," suggesting that the song will be the sixth track on the album. "Break My Soul," the first song from Beyoncé's forthcoming seventh album, "Renaissance," has dropped.

The song initially appeared only on Tidal — the streaming service co-owned by Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z — three hours before its announced release time.

Beyonce has a history of this: Her 2016 “Lemonade” album was available only on Tidal for three years, a move that likely cost her millions in streaming royalties. In 2018, she dropped “Everything Is Love,” a tag-team with husband Jay-Z under the name The Carters; in April of 2019, she released “Homecoming,” an album of her galvanizing 2018 headlining performance at Coachella, for which she was accompanied by a full marching band (which was also released as a Netflix special as part of a $60 million deal; and that summer she followed with “The Lion King: The Gift,” a companion album to the Disney film that featured several new songs from her — featuring contributions from Kendrick Lamar, Donald Glover and others — as well as songs featuring 070 Shake, Tierra Whack and African artists like Burna Boy, Mr. Eazi, Tiwa Savage and others; a deluxe edition of that album featuring three additional tracks was released a year later. “Release your anger, release your mind/ Release your job, release the time/ Release your trade, release the stress/ Release the love, forget the rest.”

Less than a week after revealing the title and release date for her follow-up to 2016's 'Lemonade,' Beyoncé returns with her new single “Break My Soul.”

It also comes with a CD, a 28-page photo booklet, and a mini poster. Jay-Z also has a writing credit on the song, which samples Robyn’s 1993 pop classic “Show Me Love.” Beyoncé’s forthcoming full-length offering Renaissance is slated for a July 29 release.

Weirdly, Break My Soul neither samples nor quotes their song. It simply uses the same bass sound, a preset on the infamous Korg M1 keyboard. But Beyoncé has ...

"I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible." Over time time, things started to change, but in the beginning, it was not so easy. The music's origins in black and queer spaces has often been overlooked. "That rush to orgasm was clear in its ebbs, flows and jump cuts between dark chords and uplifting piano breaks. Like Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa before them, Drake and Beyoncé are eulogising the redemptive power of dance in an unrecognisable world. It was not so accepting. It’s culture a shift house music ,soulful house & dance 💃🏽 🕺🏾 is the wave now hate it or love. Nobody wants you in their club. Now that— THE LOVE KING (@Raheem_DeVaughn) @beyoncejust dropped her new single watch how folks give the new @Drakealbum another listen. But Beyoncé has always been careful to acknowledge the black creators who have influenced her. It simply uses the same bass sound, a preset on the infamous Korg M1 keyboard. "I just quit my job...

It also reunites Queen Bey with bounce music legend Big Freedia, who appeared on Beyoncé's hit 2016 song “Formation.” “It feels surreal to be on the track with ...

Someone please catch me." "Imma let down my hair/'Cause I lost my mind," she sings. In 2020, Beyoncé' released the single "Black Parade" in honor of Junteenth.

First single from forthcoming album Renaissance preaches freedom but gets stuck in some familiar musical tropes.

It’s obviously going to be a huge hit, but it also isn’t a Single Ladies or Run the World or Crazy in Love, the kind of Beyoncé single that stops you in your tracks: it feels like it’s following a musical trend rather than setting one. In Britain at least, we’ve heard a lot of pop singles that sound like one or both of them in the last decade. Even if you’ve never heard of a Korg M1 synthesiser, you’ve heard that sound: it’s the basis of the 1993 Stonebridge remix of Robin S’s Show Me Love and MK’s 1992 remix – or “Dub of Doom” of the Nightcrawlers’ Push the Feeling On, two of the most influential house tracks in recent pop history.

Hold onto your wigs, the Queen is back. Four days after announcing the release date of her seventh solo studio album, the eagerly anticipated act i: ...

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The song was released Monday night initially only on Tidal, Variety said, the streaming service co-owned by her husband Jay-Z.

Since “Lemonade,” Beyonce has released a collaboration with Jay-Z, a live album, a “Lion King” soundtrack and had a song featured on the fil, “King Richard.” The new album is expected to be a followup to 2016′s hit album “Lemonade.” The single is expected to be featured on an upcoming album, “Renaissance,” which Billboard said will be released July 29.

Beyonce's latest lead single "Break My Soul" introduces her new era with a historically relevant ode to much-needed dancefloor release.

The arrival of “Break My Soul” in the midst of Pride and Juneteenth celebrations taps into the ethos that has shaped dance music spaces for decades, one that channels the deepest yearning for release for the Black and queer communities that have historically escaped to the clubs to untangle themselves from the burdens of a world in crisis. “Release your anger, release your mind/ Release your job, release the time/ Release your trade, release the stress/ Release the love, forget the rest,” the rapper urges. It carries a breeze with it, even when Beyoncé starts to call attention to the blockade that often hinders the healing process – ourselves – by gently warning: “If you don’t seek it, you won’t see it, that we all know/ If you don’t think it, you won’t be it, that love ain’t yours/ Tryna fake it, never makes it, that we all know.” “With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again,” Beyoncé told Harper’s Bazaar in 2021. In the stunning cover image, the singer is centered on the dance floor, black dress flowing over the side of a crimson red horse. In tandem with announcing her seventh studio album Renaissance, set for release on July 29th, Beyoncé appeared on the cover of British Vogue for a shoot that channeled this same moment in dance music history.