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Beyoncé — Renaissance album cover
Parkwood Entertainment

Renaissance

Beyoncé

Album · July 29, 2022 · Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records · 16 tracks

DanceHouseR&B
Cultural Reception

Intelligence Brief

A dance-floor album built on documented links to club history, from Donna Summer to Moi Renee. Its credits show who shaped the sound; they do not show who owns the recordings or publishing.

The numbers

Billboard 200 peak

Not available

Not recorded yet

Certification

Not available

Not recorded yet

First-week units

Not available

Not recorded yet

Catalog / ownership deal

None recorded

Not recorded yet

Figures are reported source snapshots, not a live feed or audit. “Not available” means not recorded, not zero.

Reported credits

Primary artist
Beyoncé
Guitar (CUFF IT)
Nile Rodgers
Percussion (CUFF IT)
Sheila E.
Featured vocals (MOVE)
Grace Jones, Tems

Release-level credits from MusicBrainz. Credits describe creative roles; they do not establish ownership of masters, publishing or royalties.

Cultural Reception

3 sourced perspectivesSelected criticism, not a consensus

Sources checked Oct 22, 2026

Pitchfork

Renaissance

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Shepherd reads the album as a celebration of club music’s emancipatory possibilities. She connects its dance-floor immediacy to a respect for musical elders and the visibility of Black queer and trans communities.

The intelligence takeaway

This interpretation makes musical history and social space part of the critical argument. It does not show that every referenced community received the album in the same way.

Read the original perspective

Editorial paraphrase and interpretation by BlackGenre, not a quotation or endorsement.

What emerges across these readings

These readings connect pleasure to musical history rather than treating escapism as an absence of meaning. Shepherd foregrounds club culture, Joshi weighs the album’s stylistic clashes and freedom, and NPR’s roundtable explores the communities behind the references. Together they offer questions about how musical inheritance is heard—not a measurement of audience response or cultural impact.

Audience reception

Not measured. Published criticism does not stand in for audience sentiment, and a publication cannot represent an entire community.

Evidence boundaries

A curated sample of 3 articles about this release—not exhaustive coverage, a score, or proof of impact. These sources do not establish rights, equity or ownership.

Creative lineage

Selected documented connections, not the complete credits. A sample uses an existing recording; an interpolation reworks material from a composition.

CUFF IT

Creative credits

Nile Rodgers · Sheila E.

The published credits identify Nile Rodgers on guitar and Sheila E. on percussion.

A concrete performance connection—not a claim about royalty points or ownership.

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MOVE

Creative credits

Grace Jones · Tems

Grace Jones and Tems are identified as guest vocalists.

Their participation is documented. A shared recording does not establish a sample of their earlier work.

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PURE/HONEY

Samples

“Miss Honey” · Moi Renee

The published credits list a sample of “Miss Honey,” performed by Moi Renee.

This identifies a recorded-source connection. It does not reveal the permission agreement, payment or split.

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SUMMER RENAISSANCE

Interpolations

“I Feel Love” · Donna Summer

The credits specify elements and interpolations of “I Feel Love,” written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte.

Keep the composition relationship distinct from a claim that the original master was sampled.

Read the published credits

Credit evidence: Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, July 29, 2022. A dated credits snapshot; it does not establish current rights or later recording revisions.

Rights & control

A creative credit, a label relationship and an ownership interest answer different questions. Here is what the evidence can—and cannot—establish.

Label / release relationshipPrimary-source attribution

The release announcement names Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia Records. It does not disclose the distribution contract or establish master ownership.

Parkwood Entertainment · release announcement
Recording rightsNot established here

The sources reviewed for this example do not establish legal ownership of the album masters, control provisions or any reversion terms.

Composition / publishing rightsCredits reported · splits unknown

The published credits name writers, publishers and administrators by track. Those entries are not a complete ownership ledger and do not disclose royalty shares.

Pitchfork · full release credits

No revenue estimates, royalty splits or equity percentages are inferred.