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Beyoncé has scored another awards show feat!

The music icon, 40, received her first Daytime Emmy nomination for writing the "Talks with Mama Tina Theme Song" for her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson's Facebook Watch series, Talks with Mama Tina.

Outstanding Original Song
Grateful For It All - The Young and the Restless, CBS
Next To You - The Young and the Restless, CBS
Talks With Mama Tina Theme Song - Talks With Mama Tina, Facebook Watch

The Daytime Emmy Awards will air live on CBS and stream on Paramount+ on Friday, June 24, at 9 p.m. EST.

Fivio Foreign’s long-awaited debut album, B.I.B.L.E., has arrived and it boasts an array of guest appearances, as well as some high-profile samples, like one from Destiny’s Child.

But that sample, from the group’s song “Say My Name,” gave the Brooklyn rapper a bit of trouble. In a new interview on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning, Fivio described the difficulties behind getting the sample cleared—and that for Beyoncé, it was a matter of the lyrical content.

“Shoutout Destiny’s Child, appreciate that, they cleared that joint,” Fivio said around the six-minute mark of the interview. His song, “What’s His Name,” also features Coi Leray and Queen Naija. Fivio added that upon hearing the song, Bey had a few notes. “She heard it. It was a little vulgar, a little bit for her, at first. I cleaned it up, I cleaned it up, I cleaned it up a lot. It was like, ‘You can’t be talking about girls like that!”

Fivio then thanked music-publishing executive John Platt for his assistance in clearing the sample. “Afterward, Big John and them explained to me, it’s a bigger record now and it made sense. One day they called me and they was like, ‘Yo, Big John wanna talk to you,’ and I’m like damn, the album drops in a week. I’m thinking straight bad news, I ain’t gonna lie, cause I had to go back. It was like, ‘Alright, you cleaned your part up, clean these other words up.’ Then it was like, ‘Clean Coi’s part up a little bit,’ and I’m like ‘Damn, so it’s over?’ So he called me, it was ringing, I answered the phone, and I’m like, ‘Hello?’ and he’s like, ‘You’re welcome.’ I’m like, ‘What? Is it cleared?’ He’s like, ‘You’re welcome.’”

Listen to the interview and the song below.

As Deadline broke Monday, Beyoncé has now been officially confirmed to sing in one of the slots of Best Original Song contenders on the 94th Oscars on Sunday. As noted in the Deadline article, speculation is her performance of the nominated song (co-written with Dixson) called “Be Alive” from King Richard will take place via satellite from a Compton tennis court. That aspect, however, was not in the Academy’s long-awaited announcement today of plans for the Best Song presentations on the ABC Oscarcast.

The 94th Oscars are Sunday at the Dolby Theatre and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Beyoncé is headed to the Oscars!

The superstar, 40, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 94th annual Academy Awards Tuesday morning, recognizing her song "Be Alive" for King Richard, which she collaborated on with Dixson. This marks Beyoncé's first Oscar nomination.

Music (Original Song)
Beyoncé - Be Alive (King Richard)
Sebastián Yatra - Dos Oruguitas (Encanto)
Van Morrison - Down to Joy (Belfast)
Billie Eilish - No Time to Die (No Time to Die)
Reba McEntire - Somehow You Do (Four Good Days)

The 94th annual Academy Awards will be held at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 27.

The UMA’s which celebrates its 18th anniversary on the 14th of February 2022 London, UK released its shortlist of nominees last week.

Beyonce’s focus on Africa for her most recent music pays off as she is up for Best Female Act, and her collaboration with Shatta Wale & Major Lazer ‘Already’ is up for Best Single.

The Urban Music Awards is the biggest celebration of Hip-hop, R&B, Soul, Reggae, EDM, Gospel, Afrobeat, and EDM music in the world. Launched 18 years ago, the award show now has annual versions in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This year over 4.3 million music fans were nominated from all UMA territories and public voting is now live via the official UMA website.

Best Female Act
Esperanza Spalding “Formwela 4”
Stefflon Don “Murda” (freestyle Badness)
Dua Lipa “Levitating”
Koffee “Switch it Up”
Jaz Karis “Mistake”
Beyonce “Already”
Shaybo “Mud”
Dawn Richard “Bussifame”
Bellah “Evil Eye”
Lianne La Havas “Lianne La Havas”

The nominations for the 53rd NAACP Image Awards are here, with Beyoncé up for two nods. Voting is now open to the public at NAACPImageAwards.net. Winners will be announced during the televised ceremony, hosted by actor/comedian Anthony Anderson, which airs at 8 p.m. ET on February 26 on BET.

Outstanding Female Artist
H.E.R.
Ari Lennox
Beyoncé
Chlöe
Jazmine Sullivan

Outstanding Soul/R&B Song
H.E.R. — “Damage”
Beyoncé — “Be Alive”
Chlöe — “Have Mercy”
Silk Sonic — “Leave The Door Open”
Jazmine Sullivan — “Pick Up Your Feelings”

Beyonce recorded a special theme song for Tina Knowles-Lawson's new show "Talks With Mama Tina". The singer also congratuled her mom on the show on Instagram.

Beyoncé's "Be Alive" from the movie "King Richard" has been nominated at the 2022 Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song, as well as 2022 Critics Choice Awards for Best Song:

Best Original Song
“Be Alive” from King Richard (Warner Bros.) — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson
“Dos Orugitas” from Encanto (Walt Disney Pictures) — Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down to Joy” from Belfast (Focus Features) — Van Morrison
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from Respect (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Jamie Alexander Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, Carole King
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell

Best Song
Be Alive – King Richard
Dos Oruguitas – Encanto
Guns Go Bang – The Harder They Fall
Just Look Up – Don’t Look Up
No Time to Die – No Time to Die

Official lyric video for "Be Alive (Original Song from the Motion Picture “King Richard’)" by Beyoncé.

Beyoncé's original song for the motion picture "King Richard" premiered today!

Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah known in showbiz as ‘Shatta Wale’ has revealed for the first time that he has delayed in releasing his GOG album because American songstresses, Rihanna and Beyoncé are yet to complete with their verses on some songs, MyNewsGh.com reports.

Speaking for the first time after his release from the Ankaful prison on Kumasi-based Pure FM with self-styled Millionaire, Oliver Khan aka ‘Ship Dealer’ monitored by MyNewsGh.com, Shatta Wale remarked that but for ‘Ship Dealer’ he would have had difficulties releasing his album.

“This is the first time I’m speaking to any media house after my release from prison and I’ve decided to not grant any radio interview for a while but I couldn’t resist not answering the call because of Oliver Khan my Boss.

He is the first person who loaned me money to produce my first album.

I haven’t told anyone this but the reason why my GOG album has been delayed is that Rihanna and Beyoncé are not done with their verses on some of the two songs I featured. When they’re done, hopefully, I will release the album.” Shatta Wale stated on Pure FM.

“It feels so good to be alive.” Based on the true story of Venus and Serena Williams that will inspire the world, watch the new trailer for King Richard, starring Will Smith and featuring "Be Alive" by Beyoncé. See it in theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max November 19.

Janelle Monáe's song "Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout)" featuring Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Chloe x Halle, Tierra Whack, Isis V., Zoë Kravitz, Brittany Howard, Asiahn, Mj Rodriguez, Jovian Zayne, Angela Rye, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Brittany Packnett-Cunningham and Alicia Garza is available now. Watch the official lyric video below.

Beyonce will be featured in Janelle Monáe's song "Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout)", which honors black women killed by the police, premiering on September 24.

On Sunday night, the 9-year-old daughter of Beyoncé and JAY-Z took home her first award from the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, winning the best cinematography category for Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl" video and becoming the youngest VMA winner ever.

Earning the award alongside her music icon mom, 40, Blue Ivy also shares the honor with "Brown Skin Girl" collaborator Wizkid and SAINt JHN. Cinematographers for the video are Benoit Soler, Malik H. Sayeed, MOHAMMAED ATTA AHMED, Santiago Gonzalez, and Ryan Helfant.

Fellow nominees in the category included Billie Eilish ("Therefore I Am"), Foo Fighters ("Shame Shame"), Justin Bieber ft. Chance The Rapper ("Holy") Lady Gaga ("911"), and Lorde ("Solar Power").

The stakes were always high when it came to working with Beyoncé. Already a superstar and a three-time Grammy winner as a member of Destiny’s Child, with four Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s under her belt, when she went solo in 2003 with the release of “Dangerously in Love,” she set a dizzying pace right out the gate, boasting two No. 1 hits and selling over five million copies of the album.

With her sophomore release “B’Day,” she knew she had to raise the bar, as both a singer and a visual artist — a given now, as Queen Bey turned 40, but not yet cemented 15 years ago.

Although her self-titled fifth album is the first which Beyoncé directly deemed a visual album, many devotees of the singer consider “B’Day,” released to accompany her Sept. 4 2006 birthday, to be the first true visual representation of her music. That’s largely because, seven months after its release, Beyoncé released the “B’Day Anthology Video Album” DVD, containing 13 music videos.

Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, who produced “World Wide Woman” and the album’s lead single, “Deja Vu,” recalls Beyoncé telling him her initial plans to make a music video for every song on the album. “She was actually watching different people she was thinking about hiring as directors,” Jerkins tells Variety. “When we weren’t recording, she was thinking about all that type of stuff, and I got a chance to see that side of her.”

Jerkins and fellow producer Jon Jon Traxx first came up with the concept for “Deja Vu” while driving to a 7-Eleven before a recording session. Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” had come on the radio, and having previously worked with Jackson, Jerkins wanted to give Beyoncé something of that caliber.

There’s a new song from Beyonce on the way!

The new film King Richard just had it’s first public screening during an event at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and the audience got to hear the song.

Beyonce‘s original song for the movie King Richard will make her eligible for an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category. The film is slated to be a big awards contender, so it seems she might be a shoo-in for a nomination.

The song is titled “Be Alive” and Beyonce is the sole performer listed on the track. She co-wrote the song with DIXSON, who also produced the single.

King Richard will be released on November 19, so the song will seemingly be out no later than that date. Beyonce has not yet been nominated for an Oscar, so this could mark her first one!

Aaliyah's uncle and producer Barry Hankerson revealed that Beyoncé helped her write songs in the studio.

The nominations for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards have been revealed, with three nods for Beyonce. Voting is open from now through Friday, Sept. 3. The ceremony is set to air live from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sunday, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m.

Best R&B
Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, WizKid – “BROWN SKIN GIRL” – Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic – “Leave The Door Open” – Aftermath Entertainment / Atlantic Records
Chris Brown and Young Thug – “Go Crazy” – Chris Brown Entertainment/RCA Records
Giveon – “HEARTBREAK ANNIVERSARY” – Epic Records / Not So Fast
H.E.R. ft. Chris Brown – “Come Through” – MBK Entertainment / RCA Records
SZA – “Good Days” – Top Dawg Entertainment / RCA Records

Best Cinematography
Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, WizKid – “BROWN SKIN GIRL” – Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records – Cinematography by: Benoit Soler, Malik H. Sayeed, MOHAMMAED ATTA AHMED, Santiago Gonzalez, Ryan Helfant
Billie Eilish – “Therefore I Am” – Darkroom / Interscope Records – Cinematography by: Rob Witt
Foo Fighters – “Shame Shame” – Roswell Records / RCA Records – Cinematography by: Santiago Gonzalez
Justin Bieber ft. Chance The Rapper – “Holy” – RBMG/Def Jam – Cinematography by: Elias Talbot
Lady Gaga – “911” – Interscope Records – Cinematography by: Jeff Cronenweth
Lorde – “Solar Power” – LAVA/Republic Records – Cinematography by: Andrew Stroud

Beyoncé's Evolution

After more than two decades in the spotlight, Beyoncé has become much more than a pop icon. She’s a cultural force who has routinely defied expectations and transformed the way we understand the power of art to change how we see ourselves and each other. But at 40, she feels like she’s just scratched the surface.

Women born at the dawn of the 1980s were among the last generation to live an analog life and the first to see themselves reimagined in digital. Beyoncé’s childhood coincided with the rise of home-recording equipment—video cameras, stereo systems that let you record your own voice, keyboards that let you find whatever sound you wanted, personal computers to synthesize it all. The girls before her had mirrors and the echoes of the trees and magazines with cartoon approximations to reflect themselves. Her generation was the first to regularly experience the dizzying accuracy of playback. It could be a destabilizing force; there’s your voice as you think it sounds, and then your voice when it comes back to you, after you’ve hit Record.