Significant moments in Beyoncé’s career: A THREAD 💜

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1. Beyoncé winning 5 GRAMMYs for her debut album “Dangerously in love” and performing alongside Prince (2004)
2. Beyoncé’s song “irreplaceable” becoming her longest solo song to stay at #1 on the billboard hot 100

The song also has one of the highest radio audience ever

It’s also one of the highest bought ringtones in the US (2007)
3. Beyoncé’s songs “Halo” and “Single ladies” peaking at #5 and #1 respectively and the songs made Beyoncé a well known pop icon ww

Halo also became her best selling song ww and now has 1B+ views on YouTube (2009)
4. Beyoncé winning 6 GRAMMYs in one night making her the only female artist to do so (2010)
5. Beyoncé doing a surprise pregnancy reveal at the VMAs making it the moment to have the most tweets per second ever in history (2011)
6. Beyoncé performing at the XLVII Super Bowl halftime show. It was ranked as the best Super Bowl halftime show by many publications (2013)

It got upto 110.8 MILLION viewers becoming the second most viewed super bowl performance
7. Beyoncé released her 5th studio album titled “BEYONCÉ” without any promotion or a publicly known release date on December 13th 2013

It sold 820K+ copied in three days and is the second fastest selling album in iTunes history
Beyoncé is also was partly the reason why the tracking week has now been switched to start from Friday in the music industry (2013/14)
8. Beyoncé won the prestigious Michael Jackson Vanguard award at the 2014 VMAs and also performed a highly praised medley of her self titled album
9. Beyoncé had her first ever tour to gross $200M from the Ms.Carter world tour which grossed upto $248M (2014)
10. Beyoncé was a guest performer at the L Super Bowl halftime show

Beyoncé got upto 147K tweets per minute due to the performance of her song “Formation” released only a day before the performance (2016)
Beyoncé’s performance also got a lot of backlash from conservatives and #BoycottBeyonce started to trend across twitter

Police were refusing to provide security to her upcoming concert tour as well
11. Beyoncé became the first black woman to own an athleisure line which came to be known as
“IVY PARK” (2016)
12. The release of her 6th studio album “Lemonade” which became the most awarded album era of all time (2016)

The accompanying visual album also won the prestigious Peabody award

It sold more than 653K copies in 3 days regardless of it being a surprise drop
• Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” caused about 4.1M tweets WW under 48 hours where Beyoncé was the no.1 trending topic WW

• The album dropped right after the accompanying documentary finished airing on HBO

• Lemonade also popularised the use of the 🍋 and 🐝 emoji
13. Beyoncé became the first black woman to grace the cover of the Vogue September issue

She also hired the first black photographer for it and got 100% creative control over the shoot
14. Beyoncé’s 2016 VMAs performance was deemed as the best award show performance by many publications

She also crossed Madonna’s record and became the most awarded VMAs artist
15. Beyoncé’s Formation world tour grossed more than $250M and was ranked as one of the best tours in the decade end lists by many publications. (2016)
16. Beyoncé’s pregnancy reveal with twins became the most liked photo on Instagram in 2017 and is one of thr most liked photos on the platform
17. Beyoncé’s Coachella performance won a GRAMMY,got 6 Emmy nominations for its documentary “Homecoming” and got upto 41M viewers (2018)
18. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s OTR 2 grossed more than $250M making Beyoncé one of the only artists to have three sold out stadium tours and to have three tours with $200M+ gross (2018)
19. She also became the only black artist in history to have a total tour gross of $1B
20. Beyoncé became the most awarded artist alive and the second most awarded artist of all time (currently 692 awards)

She also became the most nominated Grammys artist (2019)
21. Beyoncé released the visual album for her soundtrack album “The Lion King: The Gift”. “Black is King” on Disney+ (2020)

It got a score of 98/100 on metacritic and got the “must watch” tag which are rarely given to films

It also trended #1 on Disney+ the weekend it released
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