Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed seventh studio album RENAISSANCE has topped charts around the world and has accomplished an array of streaming records. The new album debuted at #1 in the US on the Billboard Top 200 as the year’s biggest debut by a woman with 332,000 units in total. It is her seventh #1 debut on the album chart, the only woman to have all her albums debut at #1. Rolling Stone recently named Beyoncé “the world’s greatest living entertainer.”
The album also entered at #1 in the UK, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa, and Brazil. RENAISSANCE became the most-streamed album on Spotify in a single day by a female artist in 2022. “Break My Soul,” the album’s first single, hits #1 on Billboard Hot 100. With “Break My Soul,” Beyoncé joins Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson as the third artist in history to have 20 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist and 10 on the chart as a member of a group.
RENAISSANCE has been the most anticipated album of the year as Beyoncé shifted gears and notified her fans of new music on June 15 through an update in her bio on her social handles, “act i RENAISSANCE July 29.” She continued the unconventional rollout with the release of “Break My Soul,” which arrived at Midnight on the summer solstice. Instantly addicting with a pulsating beat, with lyrics that urge listeners to claim joy and to “release the wiggle.” The single, a worldwide hit, has been called the song of the summer and an anthem for this generation.
Packed with rousing anthems that resonate with everybody, RENAISSANCE is a culmination of freedom and escape that encourages unimaginable jubilation, agency, and movement with abandon. The singular intent of RENAISSANCE, a reinvention of four on the floor, is to showcase music that stirs you from the soul and encourages your dancing feet. It is a celebration of a club era when anyone who felt like an outsider sought each other and formed a community of freedom-seekers to express themselves creatively through the rhythm, which we still celebrate today. Welcome to CLUB RENAISSANCE.
The magic of RENAISSANCE is also in Beyoncé’s soaring vocals, rich, soulful, at times vulnerable and laden with passion and purpose in what could only be described as “SANGING.” And it expands over memorable lyrics that are bold, heartened, urgent and categorically timely.
Coming alongside massive debut of RENAISSANCE, the RIAA have announced the following updated certifications for Beyonce’s catalog. Please see below for the new certifications:
- 6X Multi-Platinum Album – Dangerously In Love
- 6X Multi-Platinum Album –I Am… Sasha Fierce
- 5X Multi-Platinum Album – B-Day
- 5X Multi-Platinum Album – Beyonce: Platinum Edition
- 4X Multi-Platinum Album – 4
- Gold Album – Homecoming: The Live Album
- 9X Multi-Platinum Single – “Halo”
- 9X Multi-Platinum Single – “Singles Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
- 6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Crazy In Love”
- 6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Irreplaceable”
- 6X Multi-Platinum Single – “If I Were A Boy”
- 6X Multi-Platinum Single – “Drunk In Love”
- 4X Multi-Platinum Single – “7/11” (2014)
- 4X Multi-Platinum Single – “Run The World (Girls)”
- 4X Multi- Platinum Single- “Partition”
- 4X Multi-Platinum Single – “Love On Top”
- 3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Sweet Dreams”
- 3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Formation”
- 3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Best Thing I Never Had”
- 3X Multi-Platinum Single – “Sorry”
- 3X Multi-Platinum Single – “FLAWLESS”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Check On It”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Countdown”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “XO”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Hold Up”
- 2X Multi- Platinum Single – “Dance for You”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Diva”
- 2X Multi-Platinum Single – “Beautiful Liar” with Shakira
- Platinum Single – “Ring The Alarm”
- Platinum Single – “Déjà Vu”
- Platinum Single – “Naughty Girl”
- Platinum Single – “Baby Boy”
- Platinum Single – “6 INCH (FEAT. THE WEEKND)”
- Platinum Single- “All Night”
- Platinum Single- “BEFORE I LET GO (HOMECOMING LIVE)”
- Platinum Single- “End of Time”
- Platinum Single- “Get Me Bodied”
- Platinum Single- “MINE (FEAT. DRAKE)”
- Platinum Single- “Pretty Hurts”
- Platinum Single- “Upgrade U (Ft. Jay-Z)”
- Platinum Single- “1+1”
- Platinum Single- “Ego”
- Platinum Single- “Listen”
- Platinum Single- “Me, Myself and I”
- Platinum Single- “Party”
- Platinum Single- “Video Phone”
- Gold Single – “Ave Maria”
- Gold Single – “ALREADY”
- Gold Single – “BLACK PARADE”
- Gold Single – “Freakum Dress”
- Gold Single – “Haunted”
- Gold Single – “Heaven”
- Gold Single – “I Was Here”
- Gold Single – “Love Drought”
- Gold Single – “No Angel”
- Gold Single – “Pray You Catch Me”
- Gold Single – “Rocket”
- Gold Single – “Sandcastles”
- Gold Single – “Superpower (Ft. Frank Ocean)”
- Gold Single – “Blow”
- Gold Single – “Blue (Ft. Blue Ivy)”
- Gold Single – “Daddy Lessons”
- Gold Single – “Freedom (Ft. Kendrick Lamar)”
- Gold Single – “I’d Rather Go Blind”
- Gold Single – “Jealous”
- Gold Single – “Broken-Hearted Girl”
- Gold Single – “Dangerously In Love”
- Gold Single – “Don’t Hurt Yourself (Ft. Jack White)”
- Gold Single – “BROWN SKIN GIRL”
