Season 3 - Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter aka QUEEN B

Beyoncé

## Enter The Season

**Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter aka QUEEN B** was the thirs season of the **Jaracza Music Getaway** series, presenting the discography of the named artist.

## About The Artist

**Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter** (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Beyoncé's boundary-pushing artistry and vocals have made her the most influential female musician of the 21st century, according to *NPR*. Her success has led to her becoming a cultural icon and earning her the nickname "Queen Bey".

Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of her debut album *Dangerously in Love* (2003), which featured the US *Billboard* Hot 100 number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy". Following the 2006 disbanding of Destiny's Child, Beyoncé released her second solo album, *B'Day*, which contained singles "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Beyoncé also starred in multiple films such as *The Pink Panther* (2006), *Dreamgirls* (2006), *Obsessed* (2009), and *The Lion King* (2019). Her marriage to Jay-Z and her portrayal of Etta James in *Cadillac Records* (2008) influenced her third album, *I Am... Sasha Fierce* (2008), which earned a record-setting six Grammy Awards in 2010. It spawned the successful singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies", and "Halo". After professionally splitting from her manager and father Mathew Knowles in 2010, she released her musically diverse fourth album *4* in 2011.

Beyoncé later achieved universal acclaim for her sonically experimental visual albums, *Beyoncé* (2013) and *Lemonade* (2016), the latter of which was the world's best-selling album of 2016 and the most acclaimed album of her career, exploring themes of infidelity, feminism, womanism. In 2018, she released *Everything Is Love*, a collaborative album with her husband, Jay-Z, as the Carters. As a featured artist, Beyoncé topped the *Billboard* Hot 100 with the remixes of "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran in 2017 and "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. The same year, she released the musical film *Black Is King* with an accompanying visual album, with praise from critics. In 2022, Beyoncé received further critical acclaim for her seventh studio album *Renaissance*, which experimented with disco and house music and paid homage to LGBTQ+ ball culture. She obtained her first solo number-one since 2008 with the album's lead single, "Break My Soul", with *Renaissance* being her first solo studio album since 2016.

She is one of the world's best-selling recording artists, having sold over 200 million records worldwide. Her success during the 2000s was recognized with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)'s Top Certified Artist of the Decade as well as *Billboard*'s Top Female Artist of the Decade. She is the first solo artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one on the *Billboard* 200. Beyoncé's accolades include 28 Grammy Awards, 26 MTV Video Music Awards (including the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2014), 24 NAACP Image Awards, 31 BET Awards, and 17 Soul Train Music Awards; all of which are more than any other singer. In 2014, *Billboard* named her the highest-earning black musician of all time, while in 2020, she was included on *Time*'s list of 100 women who defined the last century.

## Background

**Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter aka QUEEN B** was the third season of **Jaracza Music Getaway** series. It was created by Doma and validated the existance of the future continous getaway series. Beyoncé was chosen as the reviewed artist for two main reasons: she was admired by the participating judges: Doma and Jules, and she was anticipated by Eric and Wiciu, both of whom highly pressured Doma into making this getaway. At first, it was uncertain if Destiny's Child's discography was going to be included. But eventually, it was decided to be essential for exploring the range of Beyoncé's career. Moreover, it was the first getaway in which Weronika independently took part.

## Promotion and Schedule

**Season 3** was not extensively promoted beforehand with the exeption of a little teaser of Beyoncé's *Sweet* *Dreams* song (*I AM... Sasha Fierce)* at the end of the results of the previous season. During the evaluation of the respective albums and as a way to make the rollout to ranking announcements more exciting, the GIFs, picturing Beyoncé and Destiny's Child in different music videos, as well as, extensive footage from YouTube videos, were used.

## Final

At the end of the getaway, typical watching of all of the artist's music videos took place (in which Weronika only partly participated). The results of the getaway, meaning the ranking of the albums, were published without any special event, similar to the usual results of every particular album.