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B'Day is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Beyoncé Knowles, released on September 4, 2006 by Columbia Records in collaboration with Music World Music and Sony Urban Music. Its release coincided with Knowles' twenty-fifth birthday. The album was originally planned for a 2004 release as a follow-up to her debut album Dangerously in Love (2003). However, the project was put on hiatus due to the recording of Destiny's Child's final studio album Destiny Fulfilled and her starring role in the 2006 movie Dreamgirls.
While on vacation after filming for Dreamgirls, Knowles began contacting various producers; she employed techniques for faster collaboration, and completed B'Day in three weeks. Most of the lyrical content of the album was inspired by Knowles' role in the film. The album's musical style ranges from 1970s to 1980s funk and balladry to urban contemporary elements such as hip hop and R&B. Live instrumentation was employed on most tracks as part of Knowles' vision of creating a record using live instruments.
The album debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 541,000 copies in its first week, and it has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA. It was also successful in international music markets and yielded six singles, including three worldwide hits, "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar". Upon its release, B'Day received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Knowles several accolades, including the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 49th Grammy Awards.
Background
In 2002, Knowles had generative studio sessions in the making of her debut album, Dangerously in Love, recording up to forty-five songs.[1] After the release of Dangerously in Love in 2003, Knowles had planned to produce a follow-up album using several of the left-over tracks.[1] However, on January 7, 2004, a spokesperson for her record label, Columbia, announced that Knowles had put her plans on hold in order to concentrate on the recording of Destiny Fulfilled, the final studio album by her band Destiny's Child, and for her singing of the U.S. national anthem at the Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, which was her childhood dream.[2] In late 2005, Knowles decided to postpone the recording of her second album because she had landed the starring role in the film adaptation of the 1981 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Dreamgirls.[3] As she wanted to focus on one project at a time, Knowles decided to wait until the movie was completed before returning to the recording studio.[4] Knowles told Billboard magazine, "I'm not going to write for the album until I finish doing the movie."[5]
While having a month-long vacation after filming Dreamgirls, Knowles went to the studio to start working on the album. She said, "[When filming ended] I had so many things bottled up, so many emotions, so many ideas",[4] prompting her to begin working without telling her father-record label manager Mathew Knowles.[6] People who knew she went to the studio were her A&R man Max Gousse, and the team of producers they contacted to collaborate for the album.[7] Knowles began working with songwriter-producers Rich Harrison, Rodney Jerkins, and Sean Garrett.[6][8] She also collaborated with several studio personalities: Cameron Wallace; the Neptunes, Norwegian production duo Stargate, American hip hop producer-rapper Swizz Beatz, and Walter Millsap.[9] Two female songwriters were also included in the production team who helped structure the album: Knowles' cousin Angela Beyincé, who had previous collaborations in Dangerously in Love, and up-and-coming songwriter Makeba Riddick, who made her way onto the team after writing "Déjà Vu", the lead single of the album.[4]
Recording
Influenced by boyfriend Jay-Z's method of simultaneously collaborating with multiple record producers,[10] Knowles rented Sony Music Studios in its entirety in New York City and booked Harrison, Jerkins and Garrett, each with a room to work in.[6] During sessions, Knowles would move from studio to studio to check her producers' progress, later claiming this fostered "healthy competition" among producers.[6] When Knowles conceived a potential song, she would tell the group who would deliberate, and after three hours, the song would be created.[4] While Knowles and the team brainstormed the lyrics, other collaborators like the Neptunes, Jerkins and Swizz Beatz would simultaneously produce the tracks.[4] They would sometimes begin working at eleven o'clock, spending up to fourteen hours a day during the recording process.[4] Knowles arranged, co-wrote and co-produced all the songs.[6] Makeba Riddick of MTV News later said of the production experience:
She had multiple producers in Sony Studios. She booked out the whole studio and she had the biggest and best producers in there. She would have us in one room, we would start collaborating with one producer, then she would go and start something else with another producer. We would bounce around to the different rooms and work with the different producers. It was definitely a factory type of process.[4]
— Makeba Riddick
Swizz Beatz co-produced four songs for the album, the most from a single producer in the team.[4] Knowles recorded three songs a day, finishing recording within two weeks.[7] B'Day, which is coined as a tribute to Knowles' birthday,[11] was completed in three weeks, ahead of the originally planned six weeks.[12] Twenty-five songs were produced for the album; ten of the tracks were selected for the track list, and mastered in early July by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner in Los Angeles.[13][9]
Music
Style and themes
B'Day was musically crafted from a variety of American genres,[14] and, like the roots of her previous album, incorporated urban contemporary elements including contemporary R&B and hip hop. Some songs have 1970s and 1980s styles, inspired through record sampling. "Suga Mama", which employs blues-guitar samples[15] from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers' "Searching for Soul", contains a 1970s funk- and 1980s go-go-influenced melody.[16] "Upgrade U" is sampled from the 1968 Betty Wright song "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do". "Resentment" used Curtis Mayfield's 1972 "Think (Instrumental)", from the Super Fly soundtrack. "Déjà Vu" has '70s influence,[17] "Green Light" is a classic groove,[18] and "Get Me Bodied" features twang, a musical style that originated from Texas.[19]
Knowles crafted most songs in B'Day through live instrumentation. Evident on the song "Déjà Vu", the track utilizes bass guitar, conga, hi-hat, horns and the 808 drum.[18][20] In an interview, Knowles said, "When I recorded 'Déjà Vu' ... I knew that even before I started working on my album, I wanted to add live instruments to all of my songs..."[4]
Much of the themes and musical styles of the album were inspired by Knowles' role in Dreamgirls.[21] The plot of the film revolves around The Dreams, a fictional 1960s group of three female singers who had changed in plight after discovering their manipulative manager, Curtis Taylor. Knowles portrays Deena Jones, the lead singer of the group and the wife of Taylor, and is emotionally abused by him. Because of her role, Knowles was inspired to produce an album with an overriding theme of feminism and female empowerment.[4] In the bonus track, "Encore for the Fans", Knowles says, "Because I was so inspired by Deena, I wrote songs that were saying all the things I wish she would have said in the film."[21]
Content
"Déjà Vu", which features rap from Jay-Z, is the opening track of B'Day. Set as the album's lead single, it was released in July 2006 to mixed reviews.[8][20] The single reached number four in the U.S., and number one in the UK. "Get Me Bodied" features former band-mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and sister Solange Knowles in its 1960s-influenced instructional music video.[22] It is the second track of the album, and was the fifth single released in the U.S. "Get Me Bodied" was the album's lowest-charting U.S.-released single, having reached the Billboard Hot 100 below top fifty.[23] "Suga Mama" is set as the third track; its music video features Knowles riding a mechanical bull.[24] The promotional single "Upgrade U" is the album's fourth track. Another collaboration with Jay-Z, the lyrics speaks of luxuries.[25] Knowles acts as Jay-Z for much of his part of the single's music video.[26]
The album's second single "Ring the Alarm" is noted for the use of a siren in its melody. It was called a song that "shows a harder edge to Beyoncé's sound".[6] The single was released on October 3, and became her highest-charting single debut, opening at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100.[27] "Kitty Kat" is the sixth track of the album; its music video features Knowles with a gigantic cat.[22] "Freakum Dress", the next track, is a crescendo that uses a two-note riff and galloping beats.[28] The song "advises women who have partners with straying eyes to put on sexy dresses and grind on other guys in the club to regain their affections."[25] Knowles made a video for the song to explain what "Freakum Dress" was, using different women of ages, races, and sizes, along with thirty metallic dresses.[22]
"Green Light" is the eighth track, and was released outside the U.S. Its use of the "uh-huh huh huh" vocals and brassy stabs are a direct echo of "Crazy in Love", according to Peter Robinson of The Guardian.[29] A three day-shoot music video, it is remembered for giving Knowles a blistered foot and muscle spasms because of wearing ballet-pointed heels for an 18-hour filming;[24] Knowles considered it her toughest video shoot.[26] "Irreplaceable" is the ninth track of the album, and was released as the third single in the U.S. and the second single outside North America. Gaining positive critical reviews, "Irreplaceable" was the most successful single off the album, staying on the Billboard Hot 100 at number one for ten consecutive weeks. The single's music video features the debut performance of her all-female band, Suga Mama.[26] The ballad "Resentment", which was treated as an "oversung downer", is the album's closing track.[25]
Release and promotion
B'Day was released through Columbia Records in collaboration with Sony Urban Music and Music World Music on September 4, 2006 to coincide with Knowles' 25th birthday.[5] Subsequently, it was released on September 5 in North America.[4] An expanded double-disc deluxe edition of the album was released on April 3, 2007,[30] seven months from the release of the original version. It was later released on April 23 in the UK.[31] Aside from the original track listing, the new edition features five new songs, including "Beautiful Liar", a duet with Colombian singer Shakira; the single marked Billboard chart history, moving ninety-one positions from number ninety-four to number three on April 7, 2007.[32] "Amor Gitano" ("Gypsy Love") is a flamenco-pop duet with Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández, a soundtrack for Telemundo's "El Zorro" telenovela,[33] is included in the new version, alongside several Spanish re-recordings. The idea of recording foreign language songs was derived from her group's collaboration with Alejandro Sanz for "Quisiera Ser". Knowles worked with producer Rudy Perez for these recordings.[26]
B'Day Anthology was released simultaneously with the deluxe edition, featuring ten videos, including the director's cut of "Listen" and the extended mix of "Get Me Bodied". Most of the videos are from her up-tempo tracks;[26] it is more on retro, colors and black hair styles which Knowles thought would be like her character Deena.[22] The shooting of the videos was completed in two weeks.[24] At first, the DVD was available exclusively in Wal-Mart,[26] but later released to other markets. Other editions of the second issue in several countries do not include the Spanish songs, but instead the ten music videos in the video anthology DVD.[34]
Singles
"Déjà Vu" was released as the album's lead single on July 31, 2006.[35] "Green Light" was planned to be released as the second single from B'Day. Beyoncé aimed the track for the international market, but opted for "Ring the Alarm" as the second single.[36] "Upgrade U", also featuring Jay-Z, was released as a promotional single in November 2006, and charted well.[37] The album's third single "Irreplaceable" became the best-selling single in the U.S. in 2007 and the 25th most successful song of the 2000s, according to the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.[38] Rolling Stone ranked it number sixty on their list of 100 Best Songs of the 2000s decade.[39] "Get Me Bodied" was released on July 10, 2007 as the fifth single,[40] while "Green Light" was released in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2007.[41] Along with the release of the single, the remix EP Green Light: Freemasons EP was released on July 27, 2007 as a digital download.[42]
Tour
In mid-2006, Knowles looked for an all-female band for her 2007 tour, The Beyoncé Experience, to promote the album. She held an audition for keyboard players, bassists, guitarists, horn players, percussionists and drummers around the world.[43] Knowles named the band Suga Mama.[26] She embarked on the tour in Japan on April 10, 2007[26] and concluded it on December 30, 2007 in Las Vegas. Footage from the Los Angeles show was filmed and compiled into a live DVD titled The Beyoncé Experience Live.[44]
Reception
Commercial performance
B'Day peaked at number one on the Billboard 200, the official albums chart in the U.S., on September 23, 2006.[45] The album gave Knowles her second highest-charting album following Dangerously in Love, which topped the chart also on its debut. The album sold 541,000 units in its first week of release.[45] Simultaneously, B'Day also charted at the number-one position on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally,[45] as well as on Billboard's Top Digital Albums.[46] By the end of 2006, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[47] B'Day became the U.S.' thirty-eighth best-selling album of 2006.[48] While the album's chart performance eventually began to falter, the release of the deluxe edition helped it break the top ten; it had sold 214,000 copies since its release at the beginning of April.[49] After the first week of the re-release, the album's number sixty-three position surged back to number three,[50] and charted again at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It sold up to 126,000 scans having its sales increase by 903 percent.[50] On April 16, 2007, Recording Industry Association of America re-certified B'Day as triple platinum adding the sales from the original B'Day album with the deluxe edition B'Day album.[47] As of October 2009, B'Day has sold 3.2 million copies in the U.S.[51]
In the United Kingdom, B'Day debuted at number three on September 11, 2007 selling 35,000 copies in its first week.[52] The British Phonographic Industry certified B'Day platinum for shipping 300,000 units.[53] The album peaked at number three on the European Top 100 Albums,[54] while reaching the top ten in the albums charts of Denmark, Flanders, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.[55][56] The album reached number two on the Canadian Albums Chart, lasting two weeks and receiving a platinum certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).[46][57] Across Oceania, it had the same reception debuting on Australian Albums Chart and New Zealand Albums Chart both at number eight on the same week, September 11, 2006.[55] B'Day remained on the charts for twenty and twenty-five weeks respectively,[55] and was certified platinum by both the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ).[58][59]
Critical response
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [17] |
Robert Christgau | (A-)[60] |
Entertainment Weekly | (B+)[61] |
The Guardian | [62] |
The New York Times | (mixed)[63] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.2/10)[64] |
PopMatters | (6/10)[19] |
Rolling Stone | [15] |
Slant Magazine | [65] |
USA Today | [66] |
B'Day received positive reviews from most music critics.[67] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 23 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[67] Bill Lamb of About.com complimented it for exuding the "work of a woman with focus, energy, empathy, and vocal firepower to spare", giving it four and a half stars out of five.[68] Entertainment Weekly's Jody Rosen noted that "the songs [in the album] arrive in huge gusts of rhythm and emotion, with Beyoncé's voice rippling over clattery beats", rating the album B+.[61] Jonah Weiner of Blender gave the album four out of five stars and commented that "sweaty up-tempo numbers prove the best platform for Beyonce's rapperly phrasing and pipe-flaunting fireballs".[67] The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman commented that the production team helped Knowles "focus on edgier, up-tempo tracks that take her sweet soprano to new places".[25] Billboard magazine's Gail Mitchell wrote that "throughout [the album], she romps with creative abandon, thankfully unafraid of stretching the boundaries lyrically and musically".[69] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noted that "B'Day is a reminiscent of Knowles' former group at their commercial peak".[65] In his consumer guide for MSN Music, critic Robert Christgau gave B'Day an A- rating and wrote favorably of its songs' themes concerning wealth and empowerment, stating "On most of them she's wronged yet still in control because she's got so much money".[60]
However, some critics found its production as a weakness. Roger Friedman of Fox News reviewed the album negatively and stated that "the result of so many cooks in the kitchen ... is that ... Beyoncé serves up a [mix of] ... shrill singing and invariably tuneless songs".[8] Rolling Stone magazine's Brian Hiatt averred that "while the mostly up-tempo disc never lacks for energy, some of the more beat-driven tracks feel harmonically and melodically undercooked, with hooks that don't live up to 'Crazy in Love' or the best Destiny's Child hits".[15] Mike Joseph of PopMatters stated that "the album is solid", but because of its rushed production, he counter-argued that "aside from its relatively short running time, its sound suspiciously under produced".[19] Los Angeles Times writer Richard Cromelin gave the album three out of four stars and commented that "Some of the experiments don't click, but by reconfiguring and repurposing century-spanning components of black music [...] she's gained an artistic high ground".[70] Andy Kellman of Allmusic stated that Knowles' "hurryness" in the album produced "no songs with the smooth elegance" of "Me, Myself and I" or "Be with You"; he however added, "... there is nothing desperate or weak about this album".[17] The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan wrote favorably of the album's female-oriented themes and stated "Apart from a few pop-R&B space-fillers, there's not much to dislike about B'Day".[62]
The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including "Best Contemporary R&B Album", "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" for "Ring the Alarm", "Best R&B Song" for "Déjà Vu", "Best Rap/Sung Collaboration" for "Déjà Vu", and "Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical" for "Déjà Vu" (Freemasons club mix – no rap) (remixed by Russell Small and James Wiltshire). B'Day won the award for "Best Contemporary R&B Album" at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2006.[71] The following year, B'Day received two Grammy nominations for Record of the Year for "Irreplaceable" and Best Pop Collaboration for "Beautiful Liar". She also received a Grammy nomination for her work on Dreamgirls.[72]
Controversies
The artwork of B'Day, including the cover of "Ring the Alarm", fueled controversy after Knowles used alligators during the photo shoot. Knowles revealed that using the animal and taping their mouths shut was her idea. PETA, an animal rights organization which had previously confronted her after she had used furs for her fashion line's clothing design, contacted a biologist who later wrote a letter to her, stating "As a specialist in reptile biology and welfare, I'm concerned about your posing with a terrified baby alligator for your new album cover. Humans and alligators are not natural bedfellows, and the two should not mix at events such as photo shoots. In my view, doing so is arguably abusive to an animal."[73]
In 2007, Knowles appeared on billboards and newspapers across the United States showing her holding an antiquated cigarette holder.[74] Taken from the back cover of B'Day, the image provoked response from an anti-smoking group, stating that she needed not to add the cigarette holder "to make herself appear more sophisticated".[74]
Three weeks after their release,[75] the deluxe edition and the video anthology DVD was temporarily ceased in the retail stores. A lawsuit was filed for breach of contract of using "Still in Love (Kissing You)", a version of British singer Des'ree's original song "Kissing You".[49] Not intended for the album's inclusion, Des'ree's deal also stipulated that the title of the song was not to be altered, and a video was not to be made.[75] After the infringement issue, the present version of the re-issue does not include the track,[75] but includes "If" as a replacement.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Déjà Vu" (featuring Jay-Z) | Beyoncé Knowles, Rodney Jerkins, Delisha Thomas, Makeba Riddick, Keli Nicole Price, Shawn Carter | Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins | 4:00 |
2. | "Get Me Bodied" | B. Knowles, Kasseem Dean, Sean Garrett, Riddick, Angela Beyincé, Solange Knowles | Sean Garrett, Swizz Beatz | 3:25 |
3. | "Suga Mama" | B. Knowles, Rich Harrison, Riddick, Chuck Middleton | Harrison | 3:24 |
4. | "Upgrade U" (featuring Jay-Z) | B. Knowles, Riddick, Garrett, MK, Beyincé, Carter, Willie Clarke, Clarence Reid, S. Knowles | Swizz Beatz, Cameron Wallace | 4:32 |
5. | "Ring the Alarm" | B. Knowles, Dean, Garrett | Swizz Beatz | 3:23 |
6. | "Kitty Kat" | B. Knowles, Pharrell Williams, Carter | The Neptunes | 3:55 |
7. | "Freakum Dress" | B. Knowles, Harrison, Riddick | Harrison | 3:20 |
8. | "Green Light" | B. Knowles, Williams, Garrett | The Neptunes | 3:29 |
9. | "Irreplaceable" | B. Knowles, Shaffer Smith, Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Espen Lind, Amund Bjørklund | StarGate, B. Knowles, Ne-Yo | 3:47 |
10. | "Resentment" | B. Knowles, Walter W. Millsap III, Candice Nelson, Curtis Mayfield | Walter W. Millsap III, B. Knowles, Nelson | 4:40 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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11. | "Back Up" (Circuit City exclusive bonus track) | B. Knowles, R. Jerkins, Smith Shaffer, Taylor Robert | 3:27 | |
12. | "Lost Yo Mind" (iTunes Pre-order bonus track) | Dean Kasseem, S. Garrett, B. Knowles | 3:47 | |
13. | "Creole" (Japanese bonus track) | Richard Harrison, Makeba Riddick | 3:53 | |
14. | "Check on It" (European, Japanese, and Latin American bonus track) | B. Knowles, Dean, Garrett, Beyincé, Stayve Thomas | Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé | 3:30 |
15. | "Encore for the Fans" | 10:15 |
- Deluxe edition
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Beautiful Liar (featuring Shakira)" | B. Knowles, Eriksen, Hermansen, Amanda Ghost, Ian Dech | StarGate, Beyoncé, Shakira, Eduardo Cabra | 3:19 |
2. | "Irreplaceable" | Smith, B. Knowles, Eriksen, Hermansen, Lind, Bjørklund | StarGate, Ne-Yo | 3:47 |
3. | "Green Light" | B. Knowles, Williams, Garrett | The Neptunes | 3:30 |
4. | "Kitty Kat" | B. Knowles, Williams, Carter | The Neptunes | 3:55 |
5. | "Welcome to Hollywood" | Carter, B. Knowles, Reggie Perry, Smith | Syience, Beyoncé | 3:18 |
6. | "Upgrade U (featuring Jay-Z)" | B. Knowles, MK, Makeba, Garrett, Beyincé, Carter, Clarke, Reid, S. Knowles | Swizz Beatz, Cameron Wallace | 4:32 |
7. | "Flaws and All" | Smith, B. Knowles, Robert Shea Taylor, S. Knowles | Shea Taylor, Beyoncé | 4:08 |
8. | "Still in Love (Kissing You)" (Later replaced by "If") | B. Knowles, Desree Weekes, Timothy Atack | Beyoncé, Nellee Hooper | 4:35 |
9. | "Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)" | B. Knowles, Dean, Garrett, Makeba, Beyincé, S. Knowles | Sean Garrett, Swizz Beatz | 6:18 |
10. | "Freakum Dress" | B. Knowles, Harrison, Makeba | Rich Harrison | 3:20 |
11. | "Suga Mama" | B. Knowles, Harrison, Makeba, Middleton | Rich Harrison | 3:24 |
12. | "Déjà Vu (featuring Jay-Z)" | B, Knowles, Jerkins, Thomas, Makeba, Price, Carter | Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins | 4:00 |
13. | "Ring The Alarm" | B. Knowles, Dean, Garrett | Swizz Beatz | 3:23 |
14. | "Resentment" | B. Knowles, Walter W. Millsap III, Candice C. Nelson, Curtis Mayfield | Walter W. Millsap III, Beyoncé, Candice Nelson | 4:40 |
15. | "Listen" | B. Knowles, Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven | The Underdogs | 3:39 |
16. | "World Wide Woman" | Makeba, B. Knowles, Beyincé, Lashawn Daniels, Jerkins, Garrett | 3:41 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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17. | "Check on It (featuring Bun B and Slim Thug)" | B. Knowles, Dean, Garrett, Beyincé, Thomas | Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé | 3:30 |
18. | "Amor Gitano (with Alejandro Fernández)" | B. Knowles, Jaime Flores, Reyli Barba | Rudy Perez, Beyoncé | 3:48 |
19. | "Beautiful Liar (Remix)" | B. Knowles, Eriksen, Hermansen, Ghost, Dech | StarGate, Beyoncé, Shakira, Eduardo Cabra | 3:00 |
No. | Title | Director(s) | Length |
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1. | "Beautiful Liar (with Shakira)" | Jake Nava, Beyoncé Knowles | 3:34 |
2. | "Irreplaceable" | Anthony Mandler | 4:17 |
3. | "Kitty Kat" | Melina Matsoukas, Beyoncé Knowles | 1:03 |
4. | "Green Light" | Melina Matsoukas | 3:31 |
5. | "Upgrade U (featuring Jay-Z)" | Melina Matsoukas, Beyoncé Knowles | 4:38 |
6. | "Flaws and All" | Cliff Watts, Beyoncé Knowles | 4:14 |
7. | "Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)" | Anthony Mandler, Beyoncé Knowles | 6:42 |
8. | "Freakum Dress" | Ray Kay, Beyoncé Knowles | 3:21 |
9. | "Suga Mama" | Melina Matsoukas, Beyoncé Knowles | 3:37 |
10. | "Déjà Vu (featuring Jay-Z)" | Sophie Muller | 4:06 |
11. | "Ring the Alarm" | Sophie Muller | 3:33 |
12. | "Listen" | Diane Martel | 3:49 |
13. | "Still in Love (Kissing You)" (Later removed) | Cliff Wats, Beyoncé Knowles | 4:41 |
14. | "Credits" | 0:51 | |
15. | "Behind the Scenes" | Ed Burke | 17:39 |
- Notes
- "Suga Mama" samples "Searching for Soul" by Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers.
- "Upgrade U" samples "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do (And Still Be a Lady)" by Betty Wright.
- "Resentment" samples "Think (Instrumental)" by Curtis Mayfield.
- "Encore for the Fans" contains "Encore for the Fans (Interlude)", "Listen" and "Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)".
Personnel
- Jason Agel – assistant recording
- Omar Al-Musfi – Arabic percussion
- Roberto Almodovar – recording engineering
- Allen "Al Geez" Arthur – horns
- Aplril Baldwin – artists and repertoire administration
- Aureo Baqueiro – vocal direction for Alejandro Fernández
- Reyli Barba – writing
- Robert Becker – viola
- Andres Bermudez – recording
- Angela Beyincé – writing
- Amund Bjorklund – writing
- Tim Blacksmith – Stargate management
- Aaron Brougher – artists and repertoire coordinator
- Denyse Buffum – viola
- Bun B – vocals (Rap-a-Lot)
- David Campbell – string arrangement and conducting
- Roberto Cani – violin
- Tim Carmon – keyboards
- Sean Carrington – guitar
- Jim Caruana – recording engineering
- Gustavo Celis – recording engineering
- Olgui Chirino – vocal production
- Fusako Chubachi – art direction, design
- Willie Clarke – writing
- Andrew Coleman – assistant recording
- Larry Corbett – cello
- Tom Coyne – mastering
- Jasmin Cruz – background vocals
- Scott Cutler – writing
- Danny D. – Stargate management
- Lawshawn Daniels – writing
- Mario Deleon – violin
- Ian Dench – writing
- Robert "LB" Dorsey – recording
- Andrew Duckles – viola
- Bruce Dukov – violin (concertmaster)
- Nathan East – bass
- Paco "El Sevillano" – gypsy chant
- Mikkel S. Eriksen – writing, instruments
- Alejandro Fernández – vocals (Sony BMG Mexico)
- Jaime Flores – writing
- Paul Forat – artists and repertoire
- Sean Garrett – writing, production
- Amanda Ghost – writing
- Jason Goldstein – mixing
- Aaron "Goody" Goode – horns
- Erwin Gorosita – art direction
- Max Gousse – artists and repertoire
- Alan Grunfeld – violin
- Rich Harrison – writing, production, mixing
- Tor Erik Hermansen – writing, instruments
- Geraldo Hilera – violin
- Jean-Marie Horvat – mixing
- Dabling "Hobby Boy" Howard – recording
- Ty Hunter – styling
- ILoveDust – logo design
- Jun Ishizeki – recording
- Eric Jackson – guitars
- Quincy S. Jackson – marketing
- Jay-Z – writing, vocals (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
- Rodney Jerkins – writing, production, mixing, music, horn arrangement
- James Johnson – bass
- Jon Jon – assistant production, bass
- Ronald Judge – horns
- Suzie Katayama – cello
- Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton – recording
- Hannah Khoury – violin, viola
- Kimberly Kimble – hair
- Rob Kinelski – assistant recording, assistant recording engineering
- Beyoncé Knowles – writing, vocals, production, vocal production, executive production
- Mathew Knowles – artists and repertoire, executive production, management
- Solange Knowles – writing
- Tina Knowles – styling
- Henry Krieger – writing
- Ricky Lawson – drums
- Jolie Levine – music contracting
- Espen Lind – writing, guitars
- Dave Lopez – assistant recording, Pro Tools editing
- Nathan Jenkins – recording
- Julia Knapp – artists and repertoire operation
- MK – writing
- Riley Mackin – assistant recording
- Miriam Makeba – writing
- Manny Maroquin – mixing
- Harvey Mason – percussion
- Curtis Mayfield – writing
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Chuck Middleton – writing
- Colin Miller – assistant mixing, digital prep engineering, Pro Tools prep
- Walter W. Millsap III – writing, production, music, Pro Tools editing
- Mo Horns – horns
- Naser Musa – oud
- Candice C. Nelson – writing, co-production, music
- The Neptunes – production
- Ne-Yo – writing, co-production
- Sara Parkins – violin
- Dave "Hard Drive" Pensado – mixing
- Rudy Perez – production, vocal production, arrangement, keyboards, programming, Spanish guitar, background vocals, vocal direction for Fernández
- Clay Perry – keyboards, programming, Pro Tools editing
- Denaun Porter – programming
- Anne Preven – writing
- Keli Nicole Price – writing
- Boujemaa Razgui – ney
- Clarence Reid – writing
- Aaron Renner – recording
- Geoff Rice – recording
- Michele Richards – violin
- Jared Robbins – assistant recording
- Jamie Rosenberg – assistant recording
- Kareen Roustom – violin arrangement, additional string arrangements
- Shakira – vocals (Epic Records), additional production, arrangement, vocal production, violin arrangement, remixing
- Haim Shtrum – violin
- Dexter Simmons – mixing
- Slim Thug – vocals (Star Trak/Geffen Records)
- Daniel Smith – cello
- Chris Spilfogel – recording
- Stargate – production, arrangement, recording engineering, programming
- David Stearns – assistant recording engineering
- Swizz Beatz – writing, production, additional production, mixing
- Syience – writing, production
- Shea Taylor – writing, production
- Delisha Thomas – writing
- Stayve Thomas – writing
- Michael Tocci – recording
- Rene Luis Toledo – Spanish guitar
- Steve Tolle – assitant mixing
- Francesca Tolot – makeup
- The Underdogs – production
- Max Vadukul – photography
- Jeff Villanueva – recording
- Rommel Nino Villanueva – recording
- Visitante – programming
- Cameron Wallace – production
- John Weston – recording engineering, digital editing (strings)
- Pharrell Williams – writing
- John Wittenburg – violin
- Shane Woodley – recording, assistant recording
- Kenneth Yerke – violin
Charts and certifications
Awards
Awards ceremony | Year | Nominated work | Award | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|
BET Awards[105] | 2007 | "Irreplaceable" | Video of The Year | Won |
Grammy Awards[106][107] | 2007 | B'Day | Best Contemporary R&B Album | Won |
Ivor Novello Awards[108] | 2008 | "Beautiful Liar" (with Shakira) | Best-Selling British Single | Won |
Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO)[109] | 2006 | "Déjà Vu" (with Jay-Z) | Best Song | Won |
Best Video | Won | |||
MTV Music Video Awards[110][111] | "Check On It" | Video Music Awards Best R&B Video |
Won | |
2007 | "Beautiful Liar" (with Shakira) | Video Music Awards Most Earthshattering Collaboration |
Won | |
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards[112] | "Irreplaceable" | Favorite Song | Won | |
OVMA[113] | "Beautiful Liar" (with Shakira) | Best Choreography in a Video | Won | |
Soul Train Music Awards[114] | 2006 | "Irreplaceable" | Best Female R&B/Soul Single | Won |
B'Day | Best Female R&B/Soul Album | Nominated | ||
"Irreplaceable" | Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video | Nominated | ||
World Music Awards[115] | 2006 | Representing: B'Day | World's Best-Selling R&B Artist | Won |
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External links
- B'Day at Discogs
- B'Day at Metacritic