Renaissance

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Dance Gavin Dance claims its first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 as Jackpot Juicer starts at No. If you’re unsure what to expect from the singer, it’s been heavily praised by fans and critics alike. In 2014, she ranked atop of Forbes'​ Celebrity 100 was listed among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time.

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The singular intent of 'Renaissance', a reinvention of four on the floor, is to showcase music that stirs you from the soul and encourages your dancing feet.

She’s under a strobe, flipping her hair, twirling that ass like she came up out the South, as she raps on the ebullient “Church Girl,” praying to god over a Clark Sisters sample and then squaring the propriety on a Trigger Man beat, bussing it with the godly state of being “born free. Jackpot Juicer is Dance Gavin Dance’s 11th charting effort on the Billboard 200 and fifth to reach the top 40. Never one to give too much away, she communicates through clues, leaving little breadcrumbs for her devoted fans to pick up and dissect.

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Notably, both 30 and Renaissance were released via Columbia Records (with Renaissance issued through Parkwood/Columbia).Of its 39,000 units earned, album sales comprise 38,000, while SEA units comprise 1,000 (equaling 1. It’s also the seventh-biggest streaming debut among all albums in 2022, and Beyoncé’s largest streaming week ever. Beyoncé, of course, has a gigantic bank account and a team of people to help her look extravagant—“It should cost a billion to look that good/But she make it look easy ’cause she got it,” as she vamps on “Pure/Honey”—and to make the kind of fantasy she’s crafted on Renaissance plausible, from the Swarovski-encrusted imagery to the refinement of the album’s song choices. Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.

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But it’s also part of Beyoncé’s deep appreciation for the sprawling tapestry of Black music and culture throughout pop history. Packed with rousing anthems that resonate with everybody, the album is a culmination of freedom and escape that encourages unimaginable jubilation, agency, and movement with abandon. Show your support for the singer by wearing this hoodie, which is screen printed on the front and back. If you’re a true member of the Bey Hive but don’t have a record player you can still get the physical album in your hands, but in the form of a CD.Expect parallel notes of “retro-futurism” in “music that will unite so many on the dance floor, music that touches your soul”. Comparably, her last two solo studio sets before Renaissance were both initially available exclusively only through streamers and digital retailers, and their physical release came later. The CD configuration of Manifesto was issued in collectible deluxe packages (11 total, including a version exclusively sold through Target), each with a standard set of items and randomized elements (like photocards).