five figures on the R’n’B star who is releasing a new album

► 7

As she approaches 20 years of career, the American singer is releasing her seventh solo album this Friday, July 29, Renaissance.

“Making this album allowed me to dream and escape during a scary time for the world. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous at a time when little was happening,” Beyoncé announced on Instagram last month.

“I wanted to create a place where you feel safe, without judgement. A place where you feel free from all perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, to break free, to feel freedom”, she added.

As analyzed by the cultural magazine Number, the album cover refers to Lady Godiva, a medieval legend of the tenth century. Married to a count, the heroine would have crossed the streets of the city of Coventry, in England, naked on a horse, in order to convince her husband to reduce the exorbitant taxes which weighed on the inhabitants. The man would have ended up giving in to his wife’s demands, suppressing the city’s taxes.

This cultural reference can also be associated with the committed single Break my soul, considered in the United States as the anthem of the “great resignation”. By 2021, this movement had motivated nearly 48 million Americans to leave their jobs. In the title, Beyoncé sings in particular: “Hire at 9 a.m., finish at 5 p.m., and they get on my nerves, which is why I can’t sleep at night. »

► 270 millions

This is the number of subscribers that the American star accumulates on Instagram. It is also on his social networks that the existence of his new project was revealed.

Two days before its release, the album had been leaked on the Internet, following a premature shelving of the disc. Fans of Beyoncé had then multiplied the calls for patience and discipline on social networks. “I have never seen anything like it. I can’t thank you enough for your love and protection.” reacted the singer on her Twitter account.

► 450 millions

Considered by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women on the planet, Beyoncé has built up a significant financial wealth, estimated at $450 million.

Her husband, Jay-Z, had become in 2019, the first billionaire rapper, multiplying investments in the champagne company Armand de Brignac, the cognac D’Ussé, or the music streaming platform Tidal.

► 15 600 000 000

This is the astronomical number of cumulative views of all of Beyoncé’s videos on her YouTube channel. She also shared all the songs from the album there. Renaissance July 29. The album, made up of 16 unreleased tracks, should be completed by two other discs, according to a message from the singer shared on Twitter.

► 28

In March 2021, Beyoncé broke the awards record for a female artist at the Grammy Awards. His song Black Parade, released amid mass protests sparked by the killing of African American George Floyd by white police officers in May 2020, is critically acclaimed and continues his impressive Grammy Awards haul. At 40, she already has no less than 28, a record. She is also the most nominated female artist in Grammy history, with 62 nominations.