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American singer and songwriter (born 1981)

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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (, bee-ON-say;^[6]néeKnowles; born September 4, 1981)^[7] is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. Considered as one of the most influential figures in music history, she is known for her vocal ability, innovative projects and live performances.^[8][9][10]

Beyoncé rose to fame in 1997 as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), became one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century and spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Beyoncé's commercial success continued with the albums B'Day (2006), I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008) and 4 (2011), all of which featured hit singles including "Check on It", "Irreplaceable", "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)", "Halo", "Run the World (Girls)", and "Love On Top". She has also ventured into acting, with leading roles in the films Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Dreamgirls (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Obsessed (2009), The Lion King (2019) and Mufasa: The Lion King (2024).

Beyoncé's career shifted after forming her own management company Parkwood Entertainment, creating monocultural events through acclaimed concept albums.^[11] She explored personal and political themes on Beyoncé (2013) and Lemonade (2016), which are credited with popularizing the surprise album and visual album. The former inspired setting Friday as the Global Release Day, while the latter was the best-selling album worldwide in 2016. Her ongoing trilogy project – currently consisting of the queer-inspired dance album Renaissance (2022) and AmericanaepicCowboy Carter (2024) – has highlighted the contributions of Black pioneers to American musical and cultural history, spawning the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Break My Soul" and "Texas Hold 'Em".

Beyoncé is one of the world's best-selling artists of all time and has the most RIAA-certified titles by a female artist in history.^[12][13][14] She is the only person to debut their first eight studio albums at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. Her accolades include the most Grammy Awards (32), NAACP Image Awards (25), BET Awards (32) and Soul Train Music Awards (25) of any artist. She was inducted into the Guinness World Records Hall of Fame and the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. Billboard named her the Top Female Artist of the Decade (2000s) and the Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century. The first woman to headline an all-stadium tour, Beyoncé is one of the highest-grossing live acts in history and was Pollstar's Touring Artist of the Decade (2010s). Rolling Stone listed her as the eighth greatest singer ever and included several of her albums, singles and music videos among the greatest of all time.

Early life

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, at the Park Plaza Hospital^[15] in Houston, Texas, to Tina Knowles (née Beyoncé), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager.^[16] Tina is Louisiana Creole and Mathew is African American.^{[17][18][19][20]} Beyoncé's younger sister, Solange Knowles, is also a singer and a former backup dancer for Destiny's Child. Solange and Beyoncé are the first sisters to have both had number one solo albums.^[21]

Beyoncé's maternal grandparents, Lumis Albert Beyincé and Agnéz Deréon (daughter of Odilia Broussard and Eugène DeRouen),^[22] were French-speaking Louisiana Creoles, with roots in New Iberia;^[23][22][24] She is a descendant of Acadian militia officer Joseph Broussard, who was exiled to French Louisiana after the expulsion of the Acadians, and of the French military officer and Abenaki chief Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie, Baron de Saint-Castin.^[18][25] She has additional Breton heritage. Beyoncé's fourth great-grandmother, Marie-Françoise Trahan, was born in 1774 in Bangor, located on Belle Île, France. Trahan was a daughter of Acadians who had taken refuge on Belle Île after the Acadian expulsion. The Estates of Brittany had divided the lands of Belle Île to distribute them among 78 other Acadian families and the already settled inhabitants. The Trahan family lived on Belle Île for over ten years before migrating to Louisiana, where she married a Broussard descendant.^[26] Beyoncé researched her ancestry and discovered that she is descended from a slave owner who married his slave.^[27] Her mother is also of distant Irish and Jewish ancestry.^{[28][29][30][23]} Beyoncé also has Belgian ancestry from Hainaut Province, Wallonia and is related to a former mayor of Froidchapelle, Belgium.^[31][32]

Beyoncé was raised with multiple religious traditions, attending St. John's United Methodist Church in Houston as well as St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church.^[33][34][35] She went to St. Mary's Catholic Montessori School in Houston and enrolled in dance classes there.^[36] Her singing ability was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and Beyoncé finished it, able to hit the high-pitched notes.^[37] Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat 15/16-year-olds.^[38][39] In the fall of 1990, Beyoncé enrolled in Parker Elementary School, a music magnet school in Houston, where she performed with the school's choir.^[40] She also attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts^[41] and later Alief Elsik High School.^[17][42] Beyoncé was also a member of the choir at St. John's United Methodist Church where she sang her first solo and was a soloist for two years.^[34][43]

Career

Career beginnings

When Beyoncé was eight, she met LaTavia Roberson at an audition for an all-girl entertainment group.^[44] They were placed into a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls, and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston.^[45] After seeing the group, R&B producer Arne Frager brought them to his Northern California studio and placed them in Star Search, the largest talent show on national TV at the time. Girl's Tyme failed to win, and Beyoncé later said the song they performed was not good.^[46][47] In 1995, Beyoncé's father, Mathew, resigned from his job to manage the group.^[48] The move reduced the family's income by half, and Beyoncé's parents were forced to sell their house and cars and move into separated apartments.^[17][49]

Mathew cut the original line-up to four and the group continued performing as an opening act for other established R&B girl groups.^[44] The girls auditioned before record labels and were finally signed to Elektra Records, moving to Atlanta Records briefly to work on their first recording, only to be cut by the company.^[17] This put further strain on the family, and Beyoncé's parents separated. On October 5, 1995, Dwayne Wiggins's Grass Roots Entertainment signed the group. In 1996, the girls began recording their debut album under an agreement with Sony Music, the Knowles family reunited, and shortly after, the group got a contract with Columbia Records with the assistance of Columbia talent scout Teresa LaBarbera Whites.^[38]

1997–2002: Destiny's Child

Main article: Destiny's Child

The group changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, based upon a passage in the Book of Isaiah.^[50] In 1997, Destiny's Child released their major label debut song "Killing Time" on the soundtrack to the 1997 film Men in Black.^[47] In November, the group released their debut single and first major hit, "No, No, No". They released their self-titled debut album in February 1998, which established the group as a viable act in the music industry.^[44] The group released their Multi-Platinum second album The Writing's on the Wall in 1999. The record features songs such as "Bills, Bills, Bills", the group's first number-one single, "Jumpin' Jumpin'" and "Say My Name", which became their most successful song at the time, and would remain one of their signature songs. "Say My Name" won the Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and the Best R&B Song at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards.^[44]The Writing's on the Wall sold more than eight million copies worldwide.^[46] During this time, Beyoncé recorded a duet with Marc Nelson, an original member of Boyz II Men, on the song "After All Is Said and Done" for the soundtrack to the 1999 film, The Best Man, as well as "Ways To Get Cut Off", a collaboration with fellow Columbia Records signee JoJo Robinson that was later shelved.^[51][52]

The remaining band members recorded "Independent Women Part I", which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Charlie's Angels. It became their best-charting single, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for eleven consecutive weeks.^[44] In early 2001, while Destiny's Child was completing their third album, Beyoncé landed a major role in the MTV made-for-television film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring alongside American actor Mekhi Phifer. Set in Philadelphia, the film is a modern interpretation of the 19th-century opera Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.^[53] When the third album Survivor was released in May 2001, Luckett and Roberson filed a lawsuit claiming that the songs were aimed at them.^[44] The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 663,000 copies sold.^[54] The album spawned other number-one hits, "Bootylicious" and the title track, "Survivor", the latter of which earned the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.^[55] After releasing their holiday album 8 Days of Christmas in October 2001, the group announced a hiatus to further pursue solo careers.^[44]

In July 2002, Beyoncé made her theatrical film debut, playing Foxxy Cleopatra alongside Mike Myers in the comedy film Austin Powers in Goldmember,^[56] which spent its first weekend atop the U.S. box office and grossed $73 million.^[57] Beyoncé released "Work It Out" as the lead single from its soundtrack album which entered the top ten in the UK, Norway, and Belgium.^[58] In 2003, Beyoncé starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in the musical comedy The Fighting Temptations as Lilly, a single mother with whom Gooding's character falls in love.^[59] The film received mixed reviews from critics but grossed $30 million in the U.S.^[60][61] Beyoncé released "Fighting Temptation" as the lead single from the film's soundtrack album, with Missy Elliott, MC Lyte, and Free which was also used to promote the film.^[62] Another of Beyoncé's contributions to the soundtrack, "Summertime", fared better on the U.S. charts.^[63]

2003–2007: Dangerously in Love, B'Day, and Dreamgirls

Beyoncé's first solo recording was a feature on Jay-Z's song "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" that was released in October 2002, peaking at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[65] On June 14, 2003, Beyoncé premiered songs from her first solo album Dangerously in Love during her first solo concert and the pay-per-view television special, "Ford Presents Beyoncé Knowles, Friends & Family, Live From Ford's 100th Anniversary Celebration in Dearborn, Michigan".^[66] The album was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts.^[67] The album sold 317,000 copies in its first week, debuted atop the Billboard 200,^[68] and has since sold 11 million copies worldwide.^[69]

The album's lead single, "Crazy in Love", featuring Jay-Z, became Beyoncé's first number-one single as a solo artist in the US.^[70] The single "Baby Boy" also reached number one,^[64] and singles, "Me, Myself and I" and "Naughty Girl", both reached the top-five.^[71] The album earned Beyoncé a then record-tying five awards at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards; Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Dangerously in Love 2", Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy in Love", and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Closer I Get to You" with Luther Vandross. During the ceremony, she performed with Prince.^[72]

In November 2003, she embarked on the Dangerously in Love Tour in Europe and later toured alongside Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys for the Verizon Ladies First Tour in North America.^[73] On February 1, 2004, Beyoncé performed the American national anthem at Super Bowl XXXVIII, at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.^[74] After the release of Dangerously in Love, Beyoncé had planned to produce a follow-up album using several of the left-over tracks. However, this was put on hold so she could concentrate on recording Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by Destiny's Child.^[75] Released on November 15, 2004, in the U.S.^[76] and peaking at number two on the Billboard 200,^[77][78]Destiny Fulfilled included the singles "Lose My Breath" and "Soldier", which reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[79]

Destiny's Child embarked on a worldwide concert tour, Destiny Fulfilled... and Lovin' It sponsored by McDonald's Corporation,^[80] and performed songs such as "No, No, No", "Survivor", "Say My Name", "Independent Women" and "Lose My Breath". In addition to renditions of the group's recorded material, they also performed songs from each singer's solo careers, including numbers from Dangerously in Love. During the last stop of their European tour, in Barcelona on June 11, 2005, Rowland announced that Destiny's Child would disband following the North American leg of the tour.^[81] The group released their first compilation albumNumber 1's on October 25, 2005, in the U.S.^[82] and accepted a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2006.^[83] The group has sold 60 million records worldwide.^[84][85]

Beyoncé's second solo album B'Day was released on September 4, 2006, in the U.S., to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday.^[86] It sold 541,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming Beyoncé's second consecutive number-one album in the United States.^[87] The album's lead single "Déjà Vu", featuring Jay-Z, reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[71] The second international single "Irreplaceable" was a commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States.^[71][88]B'Day also produced three other singles; "Ring the Alarm",^[89] "Get Me Bodied",^[90] and "Green Light" (released in the United Kingdom only).^[91]

At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (2007), B'Day was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "Ring the Alarm" and Best R&B Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration"for "Déjà Vu"; the Freemasons club mix of "Déjà Vu" without the rap was put forward in the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical category. B'Day won the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album.^[92] The following year, B'Day received two nominations – for Record of the Year for "Irreplaceable" and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Beautiful Liar" (with Shakira), also receiving a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media for her appearance on Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture (2006).^[93]

Her first acting role of 2006 was in the comedy film The Pink Panther starring opposite Steve Martin,^[94] grossing $158.8 million at the box office worldwide.^[95] Her second film Dreamgirls, the film version of the 1981 Broadway musical^[96] loosely based on The Supremes, received acclaim from critics and grossed $154 million internationally.^[97][98][99] In it, she starred opposite Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy playing a pop singer based on Diana Ross.^[100] To promote the film, Beyoncé released "Listen" as the lead single from the soundtrack album.^[101] In April 2007, Beyoncé embarked on The Beyoncé Experience, her first worldwide concert tour, visiting 97 venues^[102] and grossed over $24 million.^[b] Beyoncé conducted pre-concert food donation drives during six major stops in conjunction with her pastor at St. John's and America's Second Harvest. At the same time, B'Day was re-released with five additional songs, including her duet with Shakira "Beautiful Liar".^[104]

2008–2012: I Am... Sasha Fierce and 4

I Am... Sasha Fierce was released in November 2008 and formally introduced Beyoncé's alter ego Sasha Fierce.^[105] It was met with mixed reviews from critics,^[106] but sold 482,000 copies in its first week, debuting atop the Billboard 200, and giving Beyoncé her third consecutive number-one album in the U.S.^[107] The album featured her fourth UK number-one single "If I Were a Boy" and her fifth U.S. number-one song "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)".^[108] "Halo" achieved the accomplishment of becoming her longest-running Hot 100 single in her career,^[109] "Halo"'s success in the U.S. helped Beyoncé attain more top-ten singles on the list than any other woman during the 2000s.^[110]

The music video for "Single Ladies" has been parodied and imitated around the world, spawning the "first major dance craze" of the Internet age according to the Toronto Star.^[111] At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won three categories, including Video of the Year.^[112] In March 2009, Beyoncé embarked on the I Am... Tour, her second headlining worldwide concert tour, consisting of 108 shows, grossing $119.5 million.^[113]

Beyoncé further expanded her acting career, starring as blues singer Etta James in the 2008 musical biopic Cadillac Records. Her performance in the film received praise from critics,^[114] and she garnered several nominations for her portrayal of James, including a Satellite Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress.^[115][116] Beyoncé donated her entire salary from the film to Phoenix House, an organization of rehabilitation centers for heroin addicts around the country.^[117] Beyoncé starred opposite Ali Larter and Idris Elba in the thriller, Obsessed. She played Sharon Charles, a mother and wife whose family is threatened by her husband's stalker. The film received negative reviews from critics,^[118] and did well at the U.S. box office, grossing $68 million – $60 million more than Cadillac Records^[119] – on a budget of $20 million.^[120]

At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé received ten nominations, tying with Lauryn Hill for most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female artist.^[121] Beyoncé went on to win six of those nominations, breaking a record she previously tied in 2004 for the most Grammy awards won in a single night by a female artist with six. In 2010, Beyoncé provide guest vocals on Lady Gaga's single "Telephone".^[122][123] The song topped the U.S. Pop Songs chart, becoming the sixth number-one for both Beyoncé and Gaga, tying them with Mariah Carey for most number-ones since the Nielsen Top 40 airplay chart launched in 1992.^[124]

Beyoncé announced a hiatus from her music career in January 2010, heeding her mother's advice, "to live life, to be inspired by things again".^[125][126] During the break, she and her father parted ways as business partners.^[127][128] Beyoncé's musical break lasted nine months and saw her visit multiple European cities, the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids, Australia, English music festivals and various museums and ballet performances.^[125][129] "Eat, Play, Love", a cover story written by Beyoncé for Essence that detailed her 2010 career break, won her a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists.^[130]

On June 26, 2011, she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years.^[131][132]The performance was lauded, with several publications noting an ascension in Knowles' capabilities as a live performer. Other publications discussed the polarized attitude of the UK music establishment in response to a Black woman performing on the same stages and to the same crowd sizes that were past reserved for legacy rock acts.^[133][134] Her fourth studio album 4 was released two days prior in the U.S.^[135]4 sold 310,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fourth consecutive number-one album in the U.S. The album was preceded by two of its singles "Run the World (Girls)" and "Best Thing I Never Had".^{[71][122][136]} The fourth single "Love on Top" spent seven consecutive weeks at number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while peaking at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest peak from the album.^[137]

In late 2011, she took the stage at New York's Roseland Ballroom for four nights of special performances:^[138] the 4 Intimate Nights with Beyoncé concerts saw the performance of her 4 album to a standing room only.^[138] On August 1, 2011, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), having shipped 1 million copies to retail stores.^[139] By December 2015, it reached sales of 1.5 million copies in the U.S.^[140] The album reached one billion Spotify streams on February 5, 2018, making Beyoncé the first female artist to have three of their albums surpass one billion streams on the platform.^[141] In June 2012, she performed for four nights at Revel Atlantic City's Ovation Hall to celebrate the resort's opening, her first performances since giving birth to her daughter.^[142][143]

2013–2014: Super Bowl XLVII, Beyoncé

In January 2013, Beyoncé performed the American national anthem singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama's second inauguration in Washington, D.C.^[144][145] The following month, Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.^[146] The performance stands as the second most tweeted about moment in history at 268,000 tweets per minute.^[147] Her feature-length documentary film, Life Is But a Dream, first aired on HBO on February 16, 2013.^[148] The film was co-directed by Beyoncé herself.^[149]

Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates that ran through to March 2014. It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most successful tours of all time.^[150] In May, Beyoncé's cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" with André 3000 on The Great Gatsbysoundtrack was released.^[151] Beyoncé voiced Queen Tara in the 3DCGI animated film, Epic, released by 20th Century Fox on May 24,^[152] and recorded an original song for the film, "Rise Up", co-written with Sia.^[153]

On December 13, 2013, Beyoncé unexpectedly released her eponymous fifth studio album on the iTunes Store without any prior announcement or promotion. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fifth consecutive number-one album in the U.S.^[154] This made her the first woman in the chart's history to have her first five studio albums debut at number one.^[155]Beyoncé received critical acclaim^[156] and commercial success, selling one million digital copies worldwide in six days;^[157] Musically an electro-R&B album, it concerns darker themes previously unexplored in her work, such as "bulimia, postnatal depression [and] the fears and insecurities of marriage and motherhood".^[158] The single "Drunk in Love", featuring Jay-Z, peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[159]

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Beyoncé sold 2.3 million units worldwide, becoming the tenth best-selling album of 2013.^[160] The album also went on to become the twentieth best-selling album of 2014.^[161] As of November 2014^[update], Beyoncé has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and has generated over 1 billion streams, as of March 2015^[update].^[162] At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015, Beyoncé was nominated for six awards, ultimately winning three: Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song for "Drunk in Love", and Best Surround Sound Album for Beyoncé.^[163][164]

In April 2014, Beyoncé and Jay-Z officially announced their On the Run Tour. It served as the couple's first co-headlining stadium tour together.^[165] On August 24, 2014, she received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Beyoncé also won home three competitive awards: Best Video with a Social Message and Best Cinematography for "Pretty Hurts", as well as best collaboration for "Drunk in Love".^[166] In November, Forbes reported that Beyoncé was the top-earning woman in music for the second year in a row – earning $115 million in the year, more than double her earnings in 2013.^[167]

2015–2017: Lemonade and Formation World Tour

Beyoncé released "Formation" in on February 6, 2016, and performed it live for the first time during the NFLSuper Bowl 50 halftime show. The appearance was considered controversial as it appeared to reference the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party and the NFL forbids political statements in its performances.^{[168][169][170]} Immediately following the performance, Beyoncé announced The Formation World Tour, which highlighted stops in both North America and Europe.^[171][172] It marked the first ever all-stadium tour by a female artist and ended on October 7, with Beyoncé bringing out her husband Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Serena Williams for the last show.^[173] The tour went on to win Tour of the Year at the 44th American Music Awards.^[174]

In April 2016, Beyoncé released a teaser clip for a project called Lemonade. A one-hour film which aired on HBO on April 23, a corresponding album with the same title was released on the same day exclusively on Tidal.^[175]Lemonade debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, making Beyoncé the first act in Billboard history to have their first six studio albums debut atop the chart; she broke a record previously tied with DMX in 2013.^[176] With all 12 tracks of Lemonade debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Beyoncé also became the first female act to chart 12 or more songs at the same time.^[177]Lemonade was streamed 115 million times through Tidal, setting a record for the most-streamed album in a single week by a female artist in history.^[178] It was 2016's third highest-selling album in the U.S. with 1.554 million copies sold in that time period within the country^[179] as well as the best-selling album worldwide with global sales of 2.5 million throughout the year.^[180]

Lemonade became the most critically acclaimed work of her career.^[181] Several music publications included the album among the best of 2016, including Rolling Stone, which listed Lemonade at number one.^[182] The album's visuals were nominated in 11 categories at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, the most ever received by Beyoncé in a single year, and went on to win 8 awards, including Video of the Year for "Formation".^[183][184] The eight wins made Beyoncé the most-awarded artist in the history of the VMAs (24), surpassing Madonna (20).^[185] Beyoncé occupied the sixth place for Time magazine's 2016 Person of the Year.^[186]

In January 2017, it was announced that Beyoncé would headline the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. This would have made Beyoncé only the second female headliner of the festival since it was founded in 1999.^[187] It was later announced on February 23, 2017, that Beyoncé would no longer be able to perform at the festival due to doctor's concerns regarding her pregnancy. The festival owners announced that she would instead headline the 2018 festival.^[188] Upon the announcement of Beyoncé's departure from the festival lineup, ticket prices dropped by 12%.^[189] At the 59th Grammy Awards in February 2017, Lemonade led the nominations with nine, including Album, Record, and Song of the Year for Lemonade and "Formation" respectively,^[190] ultimately winning two, Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade and Best Music Video for "Formation".^[191]

In September 2017, Beyoncé collaborated with J Balvin and Willy William, to release a remix of the song "Mi Gente". Beyoncé donated all proceeds from the song to hurricane charities for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma in Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean Islands.^[192] On November 10, Eminem released "Walk on Water" featuring Beyoncé as the lead single from his album Revival. On November 30, Ed Sheeran announced that Beyoncé would feature on the remix to his song "Perfect".^[193] "Perfect Duet" was released on December 1, 2017. The song reached number-one in the United States, becoming Beyoncé's sixth song of her solo career to do so.^[194]

2018–2021: Everything Is Love and The Lion King

On January 4, 2018, the music video of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 4:44 collaboration, "Family Feud" was released.^[195] It was directed by Ava DuVernay. On March 1, 2018, DJ Khaled released "Top Off" as the first single from his forthcoming album Father of Asahd featuring Beyoncé, husband Jay-Z, and Future.^[196] On April 14, 2018, Beyoncé played the first of two weekends as the headlining act of the Coachella Music Festival. Her performance of April 14, attended by 125,000 festival-goers, was immediately praised, with multiple media outlets describing it as historic. It was also named one of the greatest concert performances of all time.^[197] The performance became the most-tweeted-about performance of weekend one, as well as the most-watched live Coachella performance and the most-watched live performance on YouTube of all time. The show paid tribute to black culture, specifically historically black colleges and universities and featured a live band with over 100 dancers. Destiny's Child also reunited during the show.^[198][199] Its livestream on YouTube was the most watched of all time.^[200]

On June 6, 2018, Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z kicked-off the On the Run II Tour in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Ten days later, at their final London performance, the pair unveiled