Lemonade

"Lemonade" is the sixth studio album by American pop singer Beyoncé, released on April 23, 2016 by Parkwood Entertainment and distributed through Columbia. The record is the second "visual album" following her 2013 release, eponymous album of the same name. Unlike its predecessor, which featured individual music videos for each track, a one-hour film was aired on HBO to coincide with the release of Lemonade. The album is a much darker album than her previous visual, and has a more varied structure in genre, providing a wide range of R&B, soul, pop, and hip-hop music. The concept was described by streaming service Tidal as "every woman's journey of self-knowledge and healing." Lemonade was widely co-produced with many well-known artists, and includes guest vocals from James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and Jack White. Lemonade received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 94, based on 15 reviews.