Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has announced a new album, titled Renaissance, out July 29 according to a new listing for a Renaissance CD and products on her website.
Several streaming services, including TIDAL and Spotify, also announced the forthcoming Beyoncé release on social media.
Rumors of a new 2022 release first started to spread online June 9 after Beyoncé removed her profile pictures across all of her social media pages,
with her highly organized fanbase the Beyhive theorizing the avatars signaled new material on the horizon.
Across her extensive career, Beyoncé has maintained her position as one of the most powerful, attention-commanding performers in music, reshaping pop stardom in the process.
"By all means, she appears to be the hardest-working entertainer alive, judging by the set parameters of the industry," critic Kiana Fitzgerald wrote of Beyoncé for NPR Music.
"The title 'pop star' doesn't fit anymore: Bey has weaved together an entirely new matrix of celebrity."
Her most recent musical release was the surprise single, Black Parade, which came out in 2020 as Black Lives Matter demonstrations spread across the world.