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On 26 June 2011, she became the first solo female artist to headline the main Pyramid stage at the 2011 Glastonbury Festival in over twenty years. Her fourth studio album 4 was released two days later in the US. 4 sold 310,000 copies in its first week and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fourth consecutive number-one album in the US. The album was preceded by two of its singles " Run the World( Girls)" and " Best Thing I Never Had ", which both attained moderate success. The fourth single " Love on Top " was a commercial success in the US.[ 4 also produced four other singles; " Party ", " Countdown ", " I Care " and " End of Time ". " Eat, Play, Love ", a cover story written by Beyoncé for Essence that detailed her 2010 career break, won her a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists. In late 2011, she took the stage at New York ' s Roseland Ballroom for four nights of special performances:[ 132 ] the 4 Intimate Nights with Beyoncé concerts saw the performance of her 4 album to a standing room only.
On January 7, 2012, Beyoncé gave birth to her first child, a daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Five months later, she performed for four nights at Revel Atlantic City ' s Ovation Hall to celebrate the resort ' s opening, her first performances since giving birth to Blue Ivy.
In January 2013, Destiny ' s Child released Love Songs, a compilation album of the romance-themed songs from their previous albums and a newly recorded track, " Nuclear ". Beyoncé performed the American national anthem singing along with a pre-recorded track at President Obama ' s second inauguration in Washington, D. C. The following month, Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl XLVII halftime show, held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The performance stands as the second most tweeted about moment in history at 268,000 tweets per minute. At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, Beyoncé won for Best Traditional R & B Performance for " Love on Top ". Her feature-length documentary film, Life Is But a Dream, first aired on HBO on February 16, 2013.
Beyoncé performing during The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in 2013. The tour is Beyoncé ' s highest-grossing tour and one of the highest grossing tours of the decade.
Beyoncé embarked on The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour on April 15 in Belgrade, Serbia; the tour included 132 dates that ran through to March 2014. It became the most successful tour of her career and one of the most successful tours of all time. In May, Beyoncé ' s cover of Amy Winehouse ' s " Back to Black " with André 3000 on The Great
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Gatsby soundtrack was released. Beyoncé voiced Queen Tara in the 3D CGI animated film, Epic, released by 20th Century Fox on May 24, and recorded an original song for the film, " Rise Up ", co-written with Sia.
On December 13, 2013, Beyoncé unexpectedly released her eponymous fifth studio album on the iTunes Store without any prior announcement or promotion. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving Beyoncé her fifth consecutive number-one album in the US. This made her the first woman in the chart ' s history to have her first five studio albums debut at number one. Beyoncé received critical acclaim and commercial success, selling one million digital copies worldwide in six days; Musically an electro-R & B album, it concerns darker themes previously unexplored in her work, such as " bulimia, postnatal depression [ and ] the fears and insecurities of marriage and motherhood ". The single " Drunk in Love ", featuring Jay Z, peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In April 2014, after much speculation, Beyoncé and Jay Z officially announced their On the Run Tour. It served as the couple ' s first co-headlining stadium tour together. On August 24, 2014, she received the Video Vanguard Award at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Knowles also won home three competitive awards: Best Video with a Social Message and Best Cinematography for " Pretty Hurts ", as well as best collaboration for " Drunk in Love ". In November, Forbes reported that Beyoncé was the top-earning woman in music for the second year in a row— earning $ 115 million in the year, more than double her earnings in 2013. Beyoncé was reissued with new material in three forms: as an extended play, a box set, as well as a full platinum edition.
At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015, Beyoncé was nominated for six awards, ultimately winning three: Best R & B Performance and Best R & B Song for " Drunk in Love ", and Best Surround Sound Album for Beyoncé. She was nominated for Album of the Year but the award was won by Beck for his Morning Phase album.
2016-present: The Formation World Tour and sixth studio album
On Friday, February 6, 2016, Beyoncé released a new single exclusively on the music streaming platform Tidal called " Formation ". The song was made available to download for free and instantly rose to a top spot on the Billboard charts. She performed the new single live for the first time ever during the Pepsi Halftime Super Bowl Show. Immediately following the announcement, Beyoncé announced her 2016 Concert Series, The Formation World Tour, which highlighted stops in both North America, and Europe.