Dangerously in Love is the debut studio album by American recording artist Beyoncé, released on June 20, 2003 by Columbia Records. During the recording of Destiny's Child's third studio album, Survivor (2001), the group announced that they would produce solo albums to be released. Recording sessions for the album took place from March 2002 to March 2003 at several studios, whilst Destiny's Child were on a break.

Track listing

Notes
 signifies a co-producer
 signifies a vocal producer
 "Crazy in Love" samples "Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)" (1970) by the Chi-Lites
 "Naughty Girl" contains interpolations from "Love to Love You Baby" (1975) by Donna Summer
 "Baby Boy" contains interpolations from "Hot Stepper" (1990) by Ini Kamoze
 "Be with You" samples "Ain't Nothing I Can Do" (1979) Tyrone Davis and contains interpolations from "I'd Rather Be with You" (1976) by Bootsy's Rubber Band and "Strawberry Letter 23" (1977) by the Brothers Johnson
 "That's How You Like It" contains interpolations from "I Like It" (1982) by DeBarge
 "Gift from Virgo" samples "Rainy Day" (1974) by Shuggie Otis
 "'03 Bonnie & Clyde" contains interpolations from "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (1987) by Prince and samples of "Me and My Girlfriend" (1996) by 2Pac
 "What's It Gonna Be" samples "Do It Roger" (1981) by Roger Troutman

Unreleased Tracks
 "I Can't Take No More" (Beyoncé Knowles, Mario Winans, Sean Combs, V. Smith, T. Shropshire, S. Jordan, Angela Beyince)
 "Ice Cream" (Beyoncé Knowles, Soul Diggaz)
 "My Man" (Beyoncé Knowles, Angela Beyince, Waller Robert, Scott Storch) (later appeared on the Wal-Mart edition of Destiny Fulfilled)
 "Settle 4 U" (Beyoncé Knowles, Shawn Carter, Makeda Davis, Bryce Wilson)
 "Sexuality" (Beyoncé Knowles, LL Cool J)

Personnel

 Beyoncé Knowles – lead vocals, producer, executive producer, vocal producer, songwriter
 Nat Adderley, Jr. – producer, arranger, electric piano, string arrangements
 Tawatha Agee – backing vocals
 Vincent Alexander – engineer
 Sanford Allen – concertmaster
 Chuckie Amos – hair stylist
 Skip Anderson – arranger, programming, additional keyboards
 Ray Bardani – string engineer, mixing
 Sherrod Barnes – producer
 Mark Batson – producer, arranger, instrumentation, conductor
 Carlos Bedoya – engineer, vocal engineer
 Big Boi – rap, additional vocal production
 Kevin Bird – prop stylist
 Craig Brockman – co-producer
 John "Jab" Broussard – additional guitar
 Al Brown – string contractor
 Dan Bucchi – assistant mix engineer
 Chris Carmouche – additional engineer
 Jim Caruana – engineer
 Demacio "Demo" Castellon – assistant mix engineer
 Tom Coyne – mastering
 Ian Cuttler – art director
 Dahlen – photography
 Jason Dale – assistant mix engineer
 Makeda Davis – backing vocals
 Delroy "D-Roy" Andrews – producer
 Missy Elliott – rap, producer
 Focus... – producer, engineer, instrumentation
 Guru – engineer
 Phil Hamilton – guitar
 Ivan Hampden – drums
 Rich Harrison – producer, instrumentation

 Andreao "Fanatic" Heard – producer
 Cissy Houston – backing vocals
 James Hunter – graphic artist
 Jay-Z – rap
 Bashiri Johnson – percussion
 Scott Kieklak – mixing
 Markus Klinko and Indrani – photography
 Mathew Knowles – executive producer
 Tina Knowles – stylist
 Brendan Kurtz – assistant mix engineer
 Tony Maserati – mixing
 Errol "Poppi" McCalla, Jr. – producer
 Byron Miller – bass
 Mr. B – producer
 Sean Paul – vocals
 Greg Price – assistant engineer
 Mally Roncal – make-up
 Dexter Simmons – mixing
 Sleepy Brown – vocals
 Matt Snedecor – assistant mix engineer
 Brian Springer – engineer
 Nisan Stewart – co-producer
 Scott Storch – producer
 Candace Thomas – backing vocals
 Pat Thrall – engineer
 Luther Vandross – vocals, vocal arrangement
 Luz Vasquez – assistant mix engineer
 Stan Wallace – engineer
 Brenda White-King – backing vocals
 Theresa LaBarbera Whites – A&R
 Bryce Wilson – producer
 Pat Woodward – assistant mix engineer
 Dan Workman – guitar, engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Chart precession and succession

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Singles

Certifications

Awards
{| class="wikitable collapsible"
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! style="text-align:center;"|Awards ceremony
!  style="text-align:center; width:30px;"|Year
! style="text-align:center;"|Nominated Work
! style="text-align:center;"|Award
! style="text-align:center;"|Results
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|BET Awards
|rowspan="3"| 2004
| rowspan="2"|"Crazy in Love" (Jay-Z) || Best Female R&B Artist || 
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|| Best Collaboration || 
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| style="text-align:left;"|BRIT Awards
| Dangerously in Love || Best International Female Solo Artist || 
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="6"|Grammy Awards
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|rowspan="5"| 2004
| rowspan="2"|"Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || Best R&B Song || 
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|| Best Rap/Sung Collaboration || 
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|| "Dangerously in Love 2" || Best Female R&B Vocal Performance || 
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|| Dangerously in Love || Best Contemporary R&B Album || 
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||"The Closer I Get to You"|| Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal || 
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| style="text-align:left;"|International Dance Music Awards
|rowspan="4"|2003
|rowspan="4"|"Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || Best R&B/Urban Dance Track|| 
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="4"|MTV Music Video Awards
|| Video Music AwardsBest Female Video || 
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|| Video Music AwardsBest R&B Video  || 
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|| Video Music AwardsBest Choreography || 
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|| 2004 || "Naughty Girl" ||Video Music AwardsBest Female Video || 
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|MTV Europe Music Awards
|rowspan="2"|2003
|rowspan="3"| "Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || Europe Music AwardsBest R&B Song || 
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|| Europe Music AwardsBest Song of the year|| 
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| style="text-align:left;"|MTV Video Music Awards Japan
|| 2004 || Best Collaboration || 
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="6"|POP Music Awards
|rowspan="2"|2003 ||"03 Bonnie & Clyde" (with Jay-Z) || Most Performed Song || 
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|| "Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) ||Most performed song || 
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|rowspan="4"| 2005 ||"Baby Boy" (with Sean Paul)|| Most performed song  || 
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|| "Me, Myself and I" ||Most performed song  || 
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|rowspan="2"|"Naughty Girl" ||Most performed song  || 
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|| Songwriter of the year || 
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| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|New Musical Express, UK (NME)
|rowspan="2"|2003
|rowspan="2"| "Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || NME Rocklist (End-of-Year Review) || 
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||NME Record of the Year (Singles) || 
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| style="text-align:left;"|Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
|rowspan="2"|2004
||"Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || Favorite Female Performer || 
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| style="text-align:left;"|Soul Train Music Awards, USA
|| Dangerously in Love|| Best R&B/Soul Album  || 
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| style="text-align:left;|Vibe Awards, USA
||2003 || "Crazy in Love" (with Jay-Z) || Coolest Collaboration || 
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References

2003 albums
Beyoncé albums
Hip hop soul albums
Neo soul albums
R&B albums