--- title: Beyonce Has an Interesting E-mail Address Strategy description: When you're Beyoncé, you need a few email tricks up your sleeve canonical: https://time.com/5047645/beyonce-email/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-04T17:32:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:02.116Z og:title: Here’s Beyonce’s Surprising Approach to E-mail og:description: When you're a superwoman, you need a few email tricks up your sleeve og:url: https://time.com/5047645/beyonce-email/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d5790b5367d1abd/6988f348cf40a8ec0ac4a6ad/gettyimages-463160548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3680 og:image:height: 2070 og:image:alt: Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life - An All-Star GRAMMY Salute - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here’s Beyonce’s Surprising Approach to E-mail twitter:description: When you're a superwoman, you need a few email tricks up your sleeve twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d5790b5367d1abd/6988f348cf40a8ec0ac4a6ad/gettyimages-463160548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here’s Superwoman Beyonce’s Surprising E-mail Address Strategy > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Winter—WireImage/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 4, 2017 5:32 PM UTC When you’re Queen B, you’re going to get a lot of emails. That’s why Beyoncé has come up with a unique strategy to handle her electronic communications and make sure that her contact information stays private—she changes her email address once a week. The idiosyncratic approach to internet privacy was revealed in an [interview](http://www.etonline.com/ed-sheeran-opens-about-beyonce-duet-reveals-singer-changes-her-email-address-every-week-exclusive) with Beyoncé’s [recent collaborator](http://time.com/5044389/beyonce-ed-sheeran-perfect-duet/?iid=sr-link3), [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4761698/game-of-thrones-ed-sheeran-arya-scene/?iid=sr-link3) guest star, and Taylor Swift squad member, [Ed Sheeran](http://time.com/4844940/lady-gaga-ed-sheeran-online-abuse/?iid=sr-link1). The singer was speaking with _Entertainment Tonight_ about working on [their duet, “Perfect”](http://time.com/5045808/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-35/?iid=sr-link1), when he spilled the beans on Bey’s email habits. “I have an email address I email \[to get in touch with Beyoncé\],” Sheeran said, adding that the her email address “actually changes every week.” The clever e-mail tactic means that only people really and truly in the know will ever have email access to Bey’s contact information. Well, people in the know and perhaps that [one prince](http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933796,00.html?iid=sr-link6). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5047645/beyonce-email/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5047645/beyonce-email/"},"headline":"Here’s Superwoman Beyonce’s Surprising E-mail Address Strategy","datePublished":"2017-12-04T17:32:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:02.116Z","description":"When you're a superwoman, you need a few email tricks up your sleeve","url":"https://time.com/5047645/beyonce-email/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Beyonce","Email"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d5790b5367d1abd/6988f348cf40a8ec0ac4a6ad/gettyimages-463160548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d5790b5367d1abd/6988f348cf40a8ec0ac4a6ad/gettyimages-463160548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life - An All-Star GRAMMY Salute - Show","caption":"Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life - An All-Star GRAMMY Salute - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—WireImage/Getty Images","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/5047645/beyonce-email/","name":"Here’s Superwoman Beyonce’s Surprising E-mail Address Strategy"}}]}] ```