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B'Day is the second solo studio album by American R&B singer Beyoncé. Columbia Records, in collaboration with Music World Music and Sony Urban Music, released it worldwide on September 4, 2006 to coincide with Beyoncé's twenty-fifth birthday (see 2006 in music).

The album was originally planned for a 2004 release as a follow-up to her debut album Dangerously in Love. However, the project was put on hiatus due to the recording of Destiny's Child's final album Destiny Fulfilled and her starring role in the 2006 movie Dreamgirls. While on vacation after filming Dreamgirls, Beyoncé began contacting various producers, and completed B'Day in just three weeks.

Most of the lyrical content of the album was inspired by Beyoncé's role in the film. The musical style of the songs range from '70s to '80s funk and balladry to urban contemporary elements like hip hop and R&B. Live instrumentation was employed on most tracks as part of Beyoncé's vision of creating a record using only live instruments. The album has vocal appearances by Jay-Z, Shakira, and others.

B'Day was commercially successful, topping the U.S. Billboard 200 chart on its debut. It sold 541,000 units within a week of release, beating its predecessor, Dangerously in Love. The album yielded six singles, and was successful in other markets, entering the top ten of many charts worldwide. B'Day was re-released as an expanded double-disc deluxe edition on April 3, 2007 when Beyoncé embarked on The Beyoncé Experience world concert tour. A DVD counterpart was also released, featuring ten music videos from the album's songs. The album has earned a 3x platinum certification in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. [10]

Production

Background and inspiration

Beyoncé singing "Listen". "Listen" is one of songs in the album that were inspired by her role in the Broadway musical adaptation Dreamgirls (2006).

Beyoncé had generative studio sessions in the making of her debut album Dangerously in Love in 2002, recording up to forty-five songs.[11] After the success of Dangerously in Love in 2003, Beyoncé had planned to produce a follow-up album using several of the left-over tracks.[11] However, on January 7, 2004, a spokesperson for her record label announced that Beyonce had put her plans on hiatus in order to concentrate on the recording of Destiny's Child's final album Destiny Fulfilled. Again, in late 2005, Beyoncé decided to postpone the recording of her sophomore album because she had landed the starring role in the film adaptation of the 1981 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Dreamgirls.[12] As she wanted to focus on one project at a time, she decided that would wait until after the movie was filmed to return to the studio.[13] Beyoncé told Billboard, "I'm not going to write for the album until I finish doing the movie."[14]

Much of the theme and the musical style of the album was inspired by the movie. The plot of Dreamgirls revolves around The Dreams, a fictional '60s group of three female singers Effie White, Deena Jones, and Lorrell Robinson. The girls experience conflict when their manager Curtis replaces Effie with Deena as the lead singer of the group. Beyoncé portrayed Deena Jones, the lead singer who marries Curtis Taylor, and is emotionally abused by him. Because of her role, Beyoncé decided to produce an album with an overriding theme of feminism and female empowerment.[13] In the bonus track, "Encore for the Fans", Beyoncé stated, "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."[15] Beyoncé co-wrote "Listen", which was suggested by her director Bill Condon, because the second half of the movie needed to have an accompanying song. She performed the song when her fictional life in the story changes direction.[16] "Listen" was later included in the album as a hidden track.

Writing and recording process

While having a month-long vacation after filming Dreamgirls, Beyoncé rushed to the studio to start working on the album. She said, "She had so many things bottled up, so many emotions, so many ideas,"[13] prompting her to begin recording without telling her father/record label manager Mathew Knowles.[17] People who knew she went to the studio were her A&R man Max Gousse and the team of producers and writers they hand-picked for the new album.[18] Beyoncé began working with songwriter-producers Rich Harrison, Rodney Jerkins, ;[19] and Sean Garrett.[17] She also collaborated with several studio personalities: Cameron Wallace; the Neptunes, who had previously worked with Beyoncé on the 2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember soundtrack "Work It Out"; Norwegian production duo Stargate; American hip hop producer-rapper Swizz Beatz who co-produced "Check On It"; and Walter Millsap. Two female songwriters were also included in the production team who helped structure B'Day. Beyoncé enlisted her cousin Angela Beyincé, who had previous collaborations with her debut album, and up-and-coming songwriter Makeba Riddick, who actually made her way onto the team after writing "Déjà Vu", the lead single of the album.[13] In addition, Beyoncé co-worked with American R&B singer Ne-Yo, who co-wrote "Irreplaceable";[20] sister Solange Knowles, who was credited for co-writing several songs; and T.I., who recorded a verse of "Upgrade U", but was not included in the final track listing.

She [Beyoncé] had multiple producers in Sony Studios. She booked out the whole studio and she had producers in there. She would have us in one room, we would start collaborating with one producer, [and] 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.
—Makeba Riddick, Billboard[13]

When Beyoncé started crafting on the album, she was inspired by the approach of Jay-Z who usually had producers working in different rooms simultaneously.[21] She rented the whole Sony Music Studios in New York City and booked Harrison, Jerkins and Garrett, each with their own room to work in.[17] During sessions, Beyoncé would go to each room after the other to check the progressions her collaborators had made.[17] When Beyoncé conceived of a potential song, she would tell the group who would later deliberate.[13] After three hours, the song would be created.[13] While Beyoncé and the team brainstormed on the lyrics, other collaborators like the Neptunes, Jerkins and Swizz Beatz would simultaneously produce the tracks.[13] They would sometimes begin working at eleven o'clock, reaching fourteen hours a day during the recording process.[13] Beyoncé recorded three songs a day, finishing it by two weeks.[18] Beyoncé arranged, co-wrote and co-produced all the songs.[17] Swizz Beatz co-produced four songs for the album, as well as Garrett, the most-produced tracks by a single producer in the B'Day team.[13] Twenty-five songs were produced. Eleven of the tracks were selected for the album and mastered in early July.[22] B'Day was completed in three weeks, ahead of the originally planned six-week toil.[23] The album's title was coined from combining Beyoncé's nickname "B" and "Day" from birthday because the album was slated to be released that day.[24] Beyoncé had photo sessions with English photographer Max Vadukul, famous for his work with publication Rolling Stone for the artwork of the album.[18]

Music and style

B'Day was musically crafted from a variety of American genres, and like the roots of her previous album, incorporating R&B, hip hop and other elements suited for urban contemporary markets. "Déjà Vu" is an R&B-funk to a hybrid of hip-hop and soul,[25] and similarly, "Freakum Dress" is a modern funk.[2] "Kitty Kat" is the only mid-tempo-oriented song in the album.[9] Other songs are dance tracks.[26] To fit the assertive thoughts of the lyrics, Beyoncé used aggressive melodies.[27] The style of the album later influenced the international vibe of her third studio album.[28]

The album took influences from the '70s and '80s styles, inspired through record sampling. "Suga Mama", which employs blues-guitar samples[8] on Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers' "Searching for Soul", reminds a '70s-funk-flavored and '80s go-go influenced melody.[25] "Upgrade U" is sampled from the Betty Wright's 1968 "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" and features a sample from Betty Wright recording "Girls Can't Do What the Guys do (and still be a lady)". "Resentment", on the other hand, used Curtis Mayfield's 1972 "Think (Instrumental)", from the Superfly (soundtrack). "Déjà Vu" rooted from the '70s,[3] "Green Light" is a classic groove,[2] and "Get Me Bodied" features twang, a musical style originated from Texas.[7]

Beyoncé crafted most songs in B'Day through live instrumentation. "Déjà Vu", utilizes bass guitar, conga, hi-hat, horns and the 808.[2] In an interview, Beyoncé 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. It's such a balance [of music on the song], it has live congas, live horns, live bass. It's still young, still new and fresh, but it has the old soul groove."[13] While "Déjà Vu" employs a production of old school horns,[29] "Ring the Alarm" handles a clattering percussion[4] and "Irreplaceable" features a guitar-driven melody. "Listen" opens with a piano chord and uses a soft cymbal roll continued until the drums comes in.[30] Beyoncé applied Arabic percussion along with various strings for "Beautiful Liar" and Spanish guitar for "Amor Gitano", backed with gypsy chants.[31]

Songs

"Déjà Vu", which features rap from Jay-Z, is the opening track of B'Day.[19] Set as the album's lead single, it was released on July 2006 to mixed reviews. Déjà Vu was noted for being "catchy", but it was panned by critics noting, "It lacks a consistent melody"[19] and "a sense of true exhilaration."[29] The single reached number four in the US but failed to match the success of its predecessor, lead single "Crazy in Love", which topped the chart for several weeks in 2003. "Déjà Vu" was more successful in the UK, peaking at number one. The single's couture-motivated music video[2] was the subject for a re-shoot petition.[32] "Get Me Bodied" features former band-mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams and sister Solange Knowles in its '60s-influenced instructional music video.[33] It is the second track of the album, and was set as the fifth single released in the US. The song drew comparison to Gwen Stefani's 2005 "Hollaback Girl" as it is glorified version.[34] "Get Me Bodied" was the album's lowest charting US-released single, having reached the Billboard Hot 100 below top fifty, compared to the album's other releases which entered the top twenty. The Rich Harrison-produced "Suga Mama" is set as the third track. The song's accompanying music video features Beyoncé riding a mechanical bull.[35]

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The non-official single "Upgrade U" is the album's fourth track. It is Beyoncé's second collaboration with Jay-Z; and is about luxuries a woman has to have to elevate the status of her man. In the video, Beyoncé acts as Jay-Z during his rap but he later appeared to finish his part. The Swizz Beatz-produced "Ring the Alarm", which is the album's second-released single, 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."[17] The single was released on October 3, 2007 to mixed reviews. "Kitty Kat", produced by Pharrell Williams from The Neptunes duo, is the sixth track of the album. First to be filmed during the sessions for the video anthology,[33] "Kitty Kat" features Beyoncé with cats trained for the production. "Freakum Dress", the next track, is a crescendo that uses a two-note riff and galloping beats.[36] 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."[26] Beyoncé made a video for the song to explain what "Freakum Dress" was, using different women on ages, races, and sizes, along with the thirty metallic dresses used in the production.[33] B'Day's non-US single "Green Light" is the seventh track and was released in the UK on July 30, 2007. Its use of the "uh-huh huh huh" vocals and brassy stabs are a direct echo of "Crazy in Love".[32] A three day-shoot music video, it is remembered for giving Beyoncé a blistered foot and muscle spasms after an 18-hour filming because of wearing ballet-pointed heels,[35] and was considered by Beyoncé as her toughest video shoot.[37]

The partly written and partly produced "Irreplaceable" by Stargate[38] is the ninth track of the album. It was released as the third single in the US late in 2006 and the second single outside North America. "Irreplaceable" was the most successful single off the album, and received most positive reviews. It peaked on Billboard Hot 100 at number one, and ran for ten weeks consecutively, paralleled to "Crazy in Love"'s commercial success. The single's accompanying music video features her female band for the first time, and the song yielded several awards. The ballad and gospel-influenced[1] "Resentment", which was treated as an "oversung downer",[26] is the album's closing track. "Resentment" is a cover of a song originally recorded by Victoria Beckham. It features slightly altered lyrics, and thus a writing credit for Beyoncé. "Listen", a bonus track of the North American release, is an inspirational ballad about "the song in my heart".[5]

New songs and Spanish versions and remixes were included in the re-issue of B'Day. "Beautiful Liar" is the edition's opening track and features contemporary Colombian singer Shakira. The single holds the distinction of having the largest upward movement on the Billboard Hot 100, moving ninety-one positions from number ninety-four to number three on April 7, 2007.[39] It received several awards, one of which is MTV's Most Earth-Shattering Collaboration accolade, yet it polarized music critics. The single's music video features Beyoncé and Shakira belly dancing together. They learned the choreography in forty minutes.[35] "Welcome To Hollywood", Beyoncé's third collaboration with Jay-Z, and "World Wide Woman" are up beat songs set as the fifth and ninth track respectively. It also includes several ballads: "Flaws and All", the edition's seventh track, has an accompanying video taken from a clip shot in a Super 8 film, with Beyoncé emulating Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Barbra Streisand[35]. "If" is the eighth track, and the last, "Still in Love (Kissing You)", a version of British singer Des'ree's own cover of Kissing You, which was originally recorded in 1996.[40] The single's accompanying video was also an eleventh-hour production, and a closing clip for the B'Day Video Anthology.[35] "Amor Gitano" or "Gypsy Love" is a flamenco-pop song duet with Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández, a soundtrack for Telemundo's "El Zorro" telenovela.[41] It is the opener of the second disc. "Beautiful Liar", "Irreplaceable" and "Listen" were re-recorded in Spanish versions pressed in the second disc of the re-issue along with other remixes.

Releases and promotion

Beyoncé performing "Flaws and All," one of the new tracks included in the deluxe edition.

B'Day was released through Columbia Records in collaboration with Sony Urban Music and Music World Music on September 4, 2007 to coincide with Beyoncé's 25th birthday.[42] Subsequently, it was released on September 5 in North America.

An expanded double-disc deluxe edition of the album was released on April 3, 2007,[43] seven months from the release of the original version. It was later released on April 23 in the UK.[44] The new edition features an all-new track and Spanish re-recordings, along with the original twelve songs. The idea of recording foreign language songs derived from her group's collaboration with Alejandro Sanz for "Quisiera Ser." Beyoncé also worked with producer Rudy Perez.[37] The re-issue includes "Beautiful Liar," which is a duet with Colombian singer Shakira, "If," "Flaws and All," "Welcome to Hollywood," originally from Jay-Z, "World Wide Woman,"[43] and "Still In Love (Kissing You)," which was not intended for the re-release.[35] Six Spanish tracks were also added: "Amor Gitano" (Gypsy Love); a Spanish version of "Listen" (Oye), "Irreplaceable" (Irreemplazable) and "Beautiful Liar" (Bello Embustero)"; and an additional Spanglish version and a remix of "Beautiful Liar."[43]

Simultaneously, the B'Day Anthology Video Album was released featuring ten videos, including the director's cut of "Listen" and the extended remix of "Get Me Bodied". Most of the videos are from her uptempo tracks,[37] different from her previous sexy and aggressive toned productions; it is more on retro, colors and black hair styles Beyoncé thought would be like her character Deena.[33] The shooting of the videos were done in two weeks.[35] It was available on Wal-Mart but later released on other markets. Other editions of the second issue in several countries do not include the Spanish songs, instead the ten music videos in the DVD.[45]

After three weeks from the release,[46] the deluxe edition and the video anthology DVD was temporarily ceased in the retail stores because of the lawsuit filed by Des'ree's camp.[47] Des'ree's permission was not to alter the title of the song and was not subjected for an accompanying video; however, Beyoncé changed the title with an additional video.[46][48] After the infringement issue, the present version of the re-issue does not include the track.[49]

The "Beautiful Liar" and "Upgrade U" videos were premiered on February 28, 2007 on BET's 106 & Park to promote the deluxe edition of B'Day. In mid-2006, Beyoncé looked for an all-female band for her 2007 The Beyoncé Experience tour to promote the album. She held an audition for keyboard players, bassists, guitarists, horn players, percussionists and drummers around the world.[50] The group is similar to Gwen Stefani's The Harajuku Girls, and according to Beyoncé, her band will be named after her song "Suga Mama."[37] Beyoncé embarked on the tour in Japan on April 10, 2007 and concluded it on December 30, 2007 in Las Vegas. The world tour included over ninety venues.

Reception

Critical reviews

B'Day received mixed reviews. Bill Lamb of About.com complimented the album 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.[1] 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 A-.[5] Jonah Weiner of Blender approved the album with four stars for "producing up-tempo beats bringing the dance floor never cool down."[4] Billboard's Gail Mitchell wrote that "throughout [the album], she romps with creative abandon, thankfully unafraid of stretching the boundaries lyrically and musically."[51] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine noted that while "Dangerously in Love is an opportunity to explore new styles and delve deeper into more personal subject matter, B'Day is a reminiscent of former group at their commercial peak." He further said that "B'Day sounds like the album 'Crazy In Love' initially forecasted. The ballads are tacked onto the end and are, therefore, easier to dismiss as mere afterthoughts."[9]

The many collaborations and the rapid production of the album also received attention from critics. Roger Friedman of FOX News stated that "the result of so many cooks in the kitchen, and none of them objective, is that post-Destiny's Child Beyoncé serves up a mixed bag of Tina Turner-inspired videos, shrill singing and invariably tuneless songs."[19] The Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman, however, stated that the production team helped Beyoncé "focus on edgier, up-tempo tracks that take her sweet soprano to new places."[26] Andy Kellman for his All Music Guide review was equally unimpressed stating that Beyoncé's "hurryness" in the album produced "no songs with the smooth elegance of "Me, Myself and I" or "Be with You," while insulting the album's title that it can be pronounced as "bidet" which literally has delicate meaning.[3] He further closed his review "that there is nothing desperate or weak about this album."[3] 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," giving the album six out of ten stars.[7] He later said, "The spare instrumentation is a recurring theme to this album, as some of the songs are stripped to the point that they sound incomplete, or even worse, boring."[7] Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt averred that "while the mostly up-tempo disc never lacks for energy, some of the more beat-driven tracks (such as the throwaway 'Freakum Dress') feel harmonically and melodically undercooked, with hooks that don't live up to 'Crazy in Love' or the best Destiny's Child hits."[8] But he further stated that "there is endless pleasure in the gliding transitions from Jay-Z's staccato rhymes to Beyonce's own honeyed flow, and there's plenty of seductive wit and charming Independent Woman feminism here [in the album]."[8]

Awards and nominations

B'Day was nominated for five 49th 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 Best Contemporary R&B Album.[52]

At the 50th Grammy Awards, 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 nominee for her work on Dreamgirls.

Chart performances, sales and certifications

B'Day peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, the official album chart in the US, on September 23[53] after its release, above Audioslave's third full-length effort, Revelations which proceeds at number two. It was the chart's highest debut.[54] B'Day gave Beyoncé her second highest charting album since Dangerously in Love, which topped the chart also on its debut. The album racked up 541,000 units sold after a week of release, 224,000 higher than Dangerously in Love's 317,000 sales, but 122,000 lower that her former group's Survivor, earning 663,000 on its start. According to Nielsen SoundScan, a music source provider, B'Day was the chart's best sales number since Tool's 10,000 Days selling 564,000 copies in May of the same year.[53] Simultaneously, B'Day also charted at the number one position on the Billboards's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums tally[53] and later on Billboard Top Internet Albums.[55] On the chart dated September 29, 2006, the album was succeeded by Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006), staying the top spot in one week. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over half a million copies, then to platinum on October 6, 2006. On December 11 of the same year, it received double platinum certification. On Billboard 2006 Year Ender, B'Day charted at number thirty-eight.[56]

During the filing of the case, the deluxe edition has been shipped a hundred of thousands of copy. The edition has sold 214,000 copies since their release at the beginning of April.[47] After the first week release, the album's number sixty-three position surges back to number three,[57] and charted again at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It sold up to 126,000 scans having the sales increased by 903 percent, making "American Idol" season-five finalist Chris Daughtry's album slips from the top spot to number seven with 98,500 copies sold.[57] Later on April 16, 2007, Recording Industry Association of America re-certified B'Day as triple platinum.

In Europe, B'Day reached the top fifteen on most charts it appeared on. The album first premiered on Ireland at number three on September 7, 2007,[58] and was the album's first appearance on charts along with other European countries and in the United World Chart and the US.[54] It did not peak any higher position and stayed the chart for forty weeks.[54] In the UK, B'Day debuted at number three on September 11, 2007.[59] Like the album's performance in Ireland, it did not reach any higher position and stayed on the chart for thirty-eight weeks. The British Phonographic Industry certified B'Day double platinum for selling 807,000 units. B'Day reached the top fifteen in Austria, France and Sweden and number twenty-three in Finland which is the album's lowest position earned. It reached the top ten in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. Most of the B'Day's peak position are its debut position.[54]

Across Oceania, B'Day 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.[54] It stayed at the stop position on two weeks in New Zealand. B'Day remained the charts for twenty and twenty-five weeks respectively.[54]

In the United World Chart, B'Day opened at number one simultaneously in the US Billboard 200, and was the chart's highest debut. It's last position charted before 2006 ends was at number twenty.[60] On the 2006 Year End, the album charted as number 12 for earning 3,113,000 points in the inclusive year.[61] In 2007, B'Day opened at number fourteen.[62] The album's last position was at number twenty eight on December 8, 2007 before it was taken out.[63] It stayed the chart for forty-one non-consecutive weeks.[54]

Track listing

# Title Time
1. "Déjà Vu" (Featuring Jay-Z)
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Jerkins, D. Thomas, Makeba, K. N. Price, S. Carter
Producers: Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles		 4:00
2. "Get Me Bodied"
Writers: B. Knowles, S. Knowles, K. Dean, S. Garrett, Makeba, A. Beyince
Producers: Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:25
3. "Suga Mama"
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Harrison, Makeba, C. Middleton
Producers: Rich Harrison, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:25
4. "Upgrade U" (Featuring Jay-Z)
Writers: B. Knowles, S. Knowles, MK, Makeba, S. Garrett, A. Beyince, S. Carter, W. Clarke, C. Reid
Producers: Cameron Vallace, Beyoncé Knowles, Swizz Beatz		 4:32
5. "Ring The Alarm"
Writers: B. Knowles, K. Dean, S. Garrett
Producers: Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:23
6. "Kitty Kat"
Writers: B. Knowles, P. Williams, S. Carter, Makeba
Producers: The Neptunes, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:55
7. "Freakum Dress"
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Harrison, A. Beyince, Makeba
Producers: Rich Harrison, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:20
8. "Green Light"
Writers: B. Knowles, P. Williams, S. Garrett
Producers: The Neptunes, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:29
9. "Irreplaceable"
Writers: S. Smith, B. Knowles, M. S. Eriksen, T. E. Hermansen, E. Lind, A. Bjørklund
Producers: Stargate, Beyoncé Knowles, Ne-Yo		 3:47
10. "Resentment"
Writers: B. Knowles, W. Millsap III, C. C. Nelson, C. Mayfield
Producers: Walter Millsap III, Beyoncé Knowles		 4:41

Latin American bonus tracks

  1. "Check on It" (featuring Bun B and Slim Thug) (Beyoncé Knowles, Kasseem "Swiss Beatz" Dean, Sean Garrett, Angela Beyincé, Stayve Thomas) – 3:30
  2. "Encore for the Fans"

Deluxe Edition

# Title Time
1. "Beautiful Liar" (Duet With Shakira)
Writers: B. Knowles, M. S. Eriksen, T. E. Hermansen, A. Ghost, I. Dench
Producers: Stargate, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:19
2. "Irreplaceable"
Writers: S. Smith, B. Knowles, M. S. Eriksen, T. E. Hermansen, E. Lind, A. Bjørklund
Producers: Stargate, Beyoncé Knowles, Ne-Yo (co-production)		 3:47
3. "Green Light"
Writers: B. Knowles, P. Williams, S. Garrett
Producers: The Neptunes, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:29
4. "Kitty Kat"
Writers: B. Knowles, P. Williams, S. Carter, Makeba
Producers: The Neptunes, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:55
5. "Welcome To Hollywood"
Writers: S. Carter, R. Perry, S. Smith, B. Knowles
Producers: Syience, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:18
6. "Upgrade U" (Featuring Jay-Z)
Writers: B. Knowles, S. Knowles, MK, Makeba, S. Garrett, A. Beyince, S. Carter, W. Clarke, C. Reid
Producers: Cameron Vallace, Beyoncé Knowles, Swizz Beatz		 4:32
7. "Flaws And All"
Writers: S. Smith, S. Taylor, B. Knowles, S. Knowles
Producers: Shea Taylor, Beyoncé Knowles, Ne-Yo (co-production)		 4:10
8. "World Wide Woman"
Writers: B. Knowles, S. Garrett, Makeba, L. Daniels, A. Beyince
Producers: Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:44
9. "Get Me Bodied" (Extended Mix)
Writers: B. Knowles, S. Knowles, K. Dean, S. Garrett, Makeba, A. Beyince
Producers: Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé Knowles		 6:18
10. "If"
Writers: S. Smith, M. S. Eriksen, T. E. Hermansen, B. Knowles
Producers: Stargate, Beyoncé Knowles, Ne-Yo (co-production)		 3:18
11. "Freakum Dress"
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Harrison, A. Beyince, Makeba
Producers: Rich Harrison, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:20
12. "Suga Mama"
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Harrison, Makeba, C. Middleton
Producers: Rich Harrison, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:25
13. "Déjà Vu" (Featuring Jay-Z)
Writers: B. Knowles, R. Jerkins, D. Thomas, Makeba, K. N. Price, S. Carter
Producers: Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Beyoncé Knowles		 4:00
14. "Ring The Alarm"
Writers: B. Knowles, K. Dean, S. Garrett
Producers: Swizz Beatz, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:23
15. "Resentment"
Writers: B. Knowles, W. Millsap III, C. C. Nelson, C. Mayfield
Producers: Walter Millsap III, Beyoncé Knowles		 4:41
16. "Listen"
Writers: H. Krieger, S. Cutler, A. Preven, B. Knowles
Producers: The Underdogs, Beyoncé Knowles		 3:39
  • Disc 2
  1. "Amor Gitano" (with Alejandro Fernández) – 3:47
  2. "Oye" ("Listen", Spanish version) – 3:40
  3. "Irreemplazable" ("Irreplaceable", Spanish version) – 3:47
  4. "Bello Embustero" ("Beautiful Liar", Spanish version) – 3:20
  5. "Beautiful Liar" (Remix) – 3:01
  6. "Beautiful Liar" ("Spanglish" version) – 3:19
  7. "Irreemplazable" (Norteña remix) – 3:52

Australian Edition
Contains the normal 16 tracks above in a different order, World Wide Woman is moved down to track 16. Plus: CD:

  2. "Check On It"
  3. "Amor Gitano"
  4. "Beautiful Liar" (Remix)

It also includes a bonus DVD:

  1. "Beautiful Liar" (Video)
  2. "Irreplaceable" (Irreemplazable) (Video)
  3. "Kitty Kat" (Video)
  4. "Green Light" (Video)
  5. "Upgrade U" (Video)
  6. "Flaws And All" (Video)
  7. "Get Me Bodied" (Extended Mix - Video)
  8. "Freakum Dress" (Video)
  9. "Suga Mama" (Video)
  10. "Déjà Vu" (Video)
  11. "Ring The Alarm" (Video)
  12. "Listen" (Video - Performance Version (No Movie Footage))

Chart

Credits

Notes

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Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
September 23 – September 29 2006 		Succeeded by
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