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Ever since Beyoncé stormed the [Super Bowl stage](http://time.com/4211293/beyonce-super-bowl-50-halftime-show/) in February with a brand new song, “Formation,” fans of the pop star have been on high alert, anticipating the follow-up to her 2013 self-titled surprise album. In the past few weeks, speculation has reached a fever pitch. Here’s some of what’s got them excited, for better or for worse: **She’s going on tour.** Beyoncé announced her [Formation World Tour](http://time.com/4211466/beyonce-formation-world-tour-super-bowl-halftime-show/) immediately after her Super Bowl performance, and the 40-date run, which kicks off April 27, would be a welcome opportunity to debut new music—she’s already supported her 2013 album with two separate tours since its release. Not that Beyoncé needs an excuse to hit the road: her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour had been under way for months before she dropped _Beyoncé_ and updated the setlist. **She’s doing interviews.** The notoriously elusive chanteuse [doesn’t grant many interviews](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/fashion/beyonce-is-seen-but-not-heard.html?%5Fr=0), but recently she’s agreed to answer questions from [_Garage_](http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/6971017/beyonce-garage-magazine-interview)and [now _Elle_ magazine](https://www.instagram.com/p/BDnyleLPjkI/?taken-by=elleusa) as she launches a new clothing line, [Ivy Park](http://www.ivypark.com/). Most stars cover magazines to promote an upcoming project, and if Beyoncé’s got a lot on her mind and is in the mood to share, it seems only natural that she’d be expressing herself in the recording studio, too. **She’s been filming** **_something_** **.** Beyoncé has been spotted shooting [at the Super Dome](http://jezebel.com/beyonce-is-maybe-shooting-a-music-video-in-new-orleans-1749319441), reportedly [filmed a video with the families of Tamir Rice and Michael Brown](https://twitter.com/TheBeyHiveTeam/status/713759112031395842?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) and [maybe hung out on set with Hillary Clinton](http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/beyonce-gets-a-surprise-visit-from-hillary-clinton-w200697). That’s led a lot of fans to think, “Damn, Beyoncé, back at it again with the [visual album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9%5F%28album%29)!” She could, of course, just be filming interludes and backdrops for her upcoming tour, but fans also [noticed a discrepancy](http://www.vevo.com/search?q=beyonce) between the number of videos you can watch on her Vevo channel and the number of videos listed. That, combined with chatter about [“Project Lemonade”](https://twitter.com/TheBeyHiveTeam/status/710089694218833920) and a [“mini film”](https://twitter.com/TheBeyHiveTeam/status/711627250832003072?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) from a seemingly well-informed, fan-run Beyoncé news Twitter account, suggests something bigger is in the works. **A very important date is coming up.** Beyoncé fans know [she loves the number 4](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20765942,00.html). She was born on Sept. 4, 1981\. She named her fourth album _4_. It’s believed that her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, gets the “Ivy” part of her name from the Roman numeral for 4 (IV). She also married Jay Z on the fourth day of the fourth month (April 4) of 2008, and they even have matching IV tattoos. It’s not out of the question that she’d release an album on a date with tremendous personal significance. **Rumored tracklists are circulating.** Don’t pay much attention to these—they’re fun to look at, and probably as much fun for pop-music nerds to make, [but as you’ll recall from 2014](http://www.vibe.com/2014/11/beyonce-about-drop-another-surprise-album-two-weeks/), these “release confirmations” aren’t trustworthy, no matter how many times you slap [Parkwood Entertainment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkwood%5FEntertainment) letterhead all over it. There are a number of fake “Formation”-era tracklists floating around online at the moment, but they’re all pretty dubious: Do you really think Beyoncé would record a song with Adele called [“Lemonade Taste”](https://twitter.com/Zedeaux/status/707625029870211076?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)? Or make a track with Rihanna called [“The Other (Other) Woman”](http://noisey.vice.com/en%5Fuk/blog/beyonce-new-album-dropping-april-1-2016)? 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