Beyoncé simply blessed the BeyHive with a B’Day shock!
On Saturday, Beyoncé launched “Morning Dew (Donk),” her first new solo track in two years, launching a 60-day countdown to the twentieth anniversary reissue of B’Day, the chart-topping sophomore album she famously launched on her twenty fifth birthday on Sept. 4, 2006.
Parkwood Leisure studies that the brand new observe reunites Beyoncé with Pharrell Williams and The-Dream, who co-wrote the track alongside Darius Dixon. Beyoncé and Pharrell additionally share manufacturing credit on the report, which can seem on the forthcoming twentieth anniversary version of B’Day.
The discharge arrives with a lyric video directed by frequent collaborator Cliff Watts that repurposes archival footage from the B’Day period. Watts, who photographed Beyoncé’s iconic Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit cowl across the time of the album’s unique launch, helmed the nostalgic visible companion, Parkwood studies.
Initially launched in September 2006, B’Day marked Beyoncé’s second consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, debuting atop the chart with first-week gross sales of 541,196 copies in the US. The mission additionally dominated internationally, reaching No. 1 in markets together with Japan, the place it climbed to the highest of the Worldwide Album Chart inside three days.
“Morning Dew (Donk)” is now accessible on all main streaming platforms, with the expanded twentieth anniversary version of B’Day set to reach Sept. 4.
