The Countdown is on.
Beyoncé sent shockwaves across social media on Thursday as she announces her next album “Renaissance” will be out on July 29.
The hotly-anticipated news was announced in a tweet by the video streaming platform Tidal on Thursday.
This will be the 40-year-old singer’s seventh studio album after she collaborated with her husband Jay-Z on their surprise joint 2018 project, “Everything Is Love.”
Last week, eagle-eyed fans spotted the singer’s social media platforms were wiped clean after her profile pictures were removed from her YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok pages.
The multi-Grammy Award winner last year teased new music was on the way in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, saying “I feel a renaissance emerging.”
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“With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again,” she told the magazine. “I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible.”
She briefly opened up about her creative process, saying her albums often take a long time to come to life.
“Still, there’s nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio,” she added. “After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming.”
In the time since she released her 2016 album, “Lemonade,” the singer teamed with JAY-Z on the 2018 album “Everything Is Love.”
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In 2019, she released “Homecoming,” a concert album that gave viewers a behind-the-scenes pass to her iconic headlining Coachella set.
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She went on to appear in the soundtrack for Disney’s latest take on “The Lion King.”
In 2020, she released another accompanying visual album, titled “Black Is King.”
