Music World/Columbia Records Announce the Release of Beyonce's 'B'Day - Deluxe
Edition,' a New Version of the Grammy-Winning Best Contemporary R&B Album
Debuting Three Brand New Songs, Including Duet With Shakira, & Bonus Disk
Premiering Six Spanish Tracks Including Duet With Alejandro Fernandez
'B'Day - Deluxe Edition' Available Tuesday, April 3
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Music World/Columbia Records will
release Beyonce's B'Day - Deluxe Edition, an expanded two-CD edition of the
pop icon's best-selling Grammy-winning solo album, on Tuesday, April 3.
On February 11, 2007, B'Day won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B
Album, bringing Beyonce's lifetime Grammy total up to 10 (seven as a solo
artist and three won with Destiny's Child).
In addition to the original 12 tracks from Beyonce's multi-platinum
album, Disc One of B'Day - Deluxe Edition premieres three brand-new songs
in English: the album's first single, "Beautiful Liar," a superstar duet
between Beyonce and Shakira, as well as "If" and "Flaws & All."
Disc Two of the expanded B'Day - Deluxe Edition debuts six new Spanish
language tracks including "Amor Gitano," Beyonce's sensuous flamenco-pop
duet with Latin Grammy-winning superstar Alejandro Fernandez. Cowritten by
Beyonce with Grammy-winning songwriters/recording artists Reyli Barba and
Jaime Flores and produced by Grammy-winning producer Rudy Perez, "Amor
Gitano" will be heard as the theme music for "Zorro: La Espada y La Rosa
(The Sword and the Rose)," a telenovela (serialized television soap opera)
premiering February 12 on Telemundo (check your local listings). Beginning
Monday, February 12, the track may be streamed at
http://www.yahootelemundo.com/zorro.
Rounding out Disc Two of B'Day - Deluxe Edition are Beyonce's Spanish
language versions of "Listen (Oye)" and "Irreplaceable (Irrempiazable)" as
well as three new mixes of "Beautiful Liar."
Also arriving on Tuesday, April 3 is Beyonce's B'Day Anthology Video
Album. Available exclusively at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the B'Day Anthology
Video Album includes Beyonce's videos for "Kitty Kat (intro)"/"Upgrade U"
featuring Jay-Z, "Deja Vu," "Ring The Alarm," "Irreplaceable," "Listen,"
"Green Light," "Suga Mama," "Get Me Bodied," "Freakum Dress" and "Beautiful
Liar" featuring Shakira. As an added bonus, the video collection features
the Spanish-language version of "Irreplaceable" and the Spanglish version
of "Beautiful Liar" featuring Shakira.
Beyonce's second solo album, B'Day, closed out 2006 as one of the
year's most successful album, coming in at #7 on Billboard's U.S. Top 10
Best-Selling Albums chart. Certified RIAA double platinum in the U.S.,
B'Day has sold more than 4 million copies around the world.
Released around the world on September 4, 2006 (September 5 in the
U.S.) to coincide with the artist's 25th birthday, Beyonce's B'Day entered
the Billboard Top 200 at #1, with first week's sales of more than 541,000
pieces, achieving the year's highest first week's sales of any female
recording act, group or solo, and the fifth highest chart debut of the year
of any artist, male of female. (The pop superstar's first solo album,
2003's Grammy-winning Dangerously In Love, also debuted in the #1 slot.)
B'Day peaked at #1 on Billboard's Top 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and
U.S. Internet album charts and remains a constant on the upper reaches of
the Top 200.
"Deja Vu" (featuring Jay-Z), the first single from B'Day, reached #1 on
the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart and #1 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales
chart while its follow-up, "Ring The Alarm," hit #1 on the Billboard Hot
Dance Music/Club Play chart and #3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The
album's current single, "Irreplaceable," reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 100
Singles chart (10 weeks in a row) and #1 on the R&B Singles chart (9 weeks
in a row).
Beyonce may currently be seen starring with Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy
in the hit Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures film "Dreamgirls," which
earned a whopping $8.7 million on Christmas Day -- the best single day ever
for a musical. -- and racked up $41.349 million in its first 8 days of wide
release.
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