It’s a giant day for Beyoncé and the Beyhive. On Wednesday (Dec. 13), Queen Bey commemorated 10 years of her self-titled shock visible album, and she or he’s treating followers to some new music — type of — to have a good time.
When Beyoncé arrived on iTunes with no pre-release announcement or promotion within the wee hours of Dec. 13, 2013, the 14-track file got here full with 17 music movies. Whereas sure songs on the album — specifically “Partition” and “Haunted” — acquired two music movies to honor their long-winding buildings, there was a bonus music video that didn’t accompany an audio observe.
For a decade, Beyoncé followers have solely been in a position to stream “Grown Girl” as a music video. On YouTube — the place the clip was uploaded to honor the album’s one-year anniversary and the discharge of its platinum version — the Jake Nava-helmed video has amassed over 145 million views. Earlier than that, nevertheless, Beyoncé first teased a prolonged snippet of “Grown Girl” in a career-reflecting Pepsi advert that debuted just some months after she rocked the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present stage in 2013.
Now, followers can benefit from the observe as they’d some other Beyoncé tune. The Afrobeats-tinged single lastly arrived on streaming platforms on Dec. 13, marking the second present from Queen Bey following an Instagram video montage acknowledging the album’s anniversary.
“Grown Girl” is co-written by Beyoncé, The-Dream, Timbaland, Kelly Sheehan, Garland Mosley, Chris Godbey and Darryl Pearson, with manufacturing contributions from Timbaland and J-Roc.
Regardless of dropping in the course of the monitoring week, Beyoncé debuted atop the Billboard 200 with simply three days of gross sales, changing into the quickest promoting album in iTunes historical past on the time. The three-time Grammy-winning LP housed the Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 2 hit “Drunk in Love” (with Jay-Z), in addition to “7/11” (No. 13), “Partition” (No. 23) and “Flawless” (No. 41).
Hearken to “Grown Girl” through YouTube above.
