--- title: Beyoncé Breaks Billboard Record With Sixth Number One Album description: Beyoncé's latest album 'Lemonade' made history when it gave her a sixth straight no.1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. canonical: https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-02T16:45:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:01.715Z og:title: Beyoncé Just Made History With 'Lemonade' og:description: All hail Queen Bey. og:url: https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0633169f95d0d95f/698890a1f887dcbb5fe95993/beyonce-lemonade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: TIME-STOCK-BEYONCE-LEMONADE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyoncé Just Made History With 'Lemonade' twitter:description: All hail Queen Bey. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0633169f95d0d95f/698890a1f887dcbb5fe95993/beyonce-lemonade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé Makes History With Record-Breaking _Lemonade_ > Sponsored content. 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A still from Beyonce's hourlong HBO special 'Lemonade'.Parkwood Entertainment  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 2, 2016 4:45 PM UTC All hail Queen Bey — the singer’s [visual album _Lemonade_](http://time.com/4305810/beyonce-lemonade-hbo/)took the [Internet by storm](http://time.com/4306335/beyonce-lemonade-questions/) when it dropped last weekend and now it’s made history as it topped the [_Billboard_ 200](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7350372/beyonce-earns-sixth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200-chart-with-lemonade) after its first week. This marks the sixth time in a row that one of Beyoncé’s solo albums has debuted at No. 1, making her the first artist to ever top the list with her first six albums. Beyoncé also enjoyed the biggest week in music units and sales of 2016, selling 653,000 units (485,000 of which were pure album sales) in just one week. The singer’s new release takes the top spot from [Prince](http://time.com/4312354/prince-purple-rain-coat-auction/) whose songs have held court in the top 10 following his [death](http://time.com/4303558/prince-dead-paisley-park-57/) two weeks ago. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/"},"headline":"Beyoncé Makes History With Record-Breaking Lemonade","datePublished":"2016-05-02T16:45:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:01.715Z","description":"Bow down.","url":"https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Beyonce","Lemonade"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0633169f95d0d95f/698890a1f887dcbb5fe95993/beyonce-lemonade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0633169f95d0d95f/698890a1f887dcbb5fe95993/beyonce-lemonade.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIME-STOCK-BEYONCE-LEMONADE","caption":"A still from Beyonce's hourlong HBO special 'Lemonade'.","creditText":"Parkwood Entertainment","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4314347/beyonce-makes-history-with-record-breaking-lemonade/","name":"Beyoncé Makes History With Record-Breaking Lemonade"}}]}] ```