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Beyonce loved 'The Lion King' as a kid, says mom Tina Knowles - Today.com
What Is Beyoncé's Net Worth? - TheStreet.com
Destiny's Child 'The Writing's On The Wall' Turns 20 - NPR
Beyonce's 'Spirit' From 'The Lion King' Debuts at No. 1 on Kid Digital Song Sales Chart - Billboard

Beyonce loved 'The Lion King' as a kid, says mom Tina Knowles - Today.com

Posted: 29 Jul 2019 05:49 AM PDT

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Beyonce's mother, Tina Knowles, spoke to Entertainment Tonight about how often her daughter watched "The Lion King" as a child, which made her role in the ...

What Is Beyoncé's Net Worth? - TheStreet.com

Posted: 29 Jul 2019 09:39 AM PDT

Beyoncé is worth an estimated $500 million - most of it accumulated from her work as a globally renowned singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, film producer, and occasional product pitchwoman.

Pulling herself up from her bootstraps, Beyoncé, whose full name is Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter, went from being a high school dropout to widely viewed as one of the world's top entertainers. Married to entertainer and business magnate Jay-Z, whose net worth is valued at $1 billion, the combined net worth of the two is $1.43 billion dollars.

Growing Up

Beyoncé was born Sept. 4, 1981, in Houston. Her parents, Celestine and Mathew Knowles, also had a younger daughter named Solange, who went on to back Beyoncé in her R&B supergroup Destiny's Child in the 1990s.

Beyoncé took to an entertainment career early in life, singing in her local church choir and competing in local and regional entertainment competitions as a child. She attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where she began studying music, dance and began finding herself as a singer.

Her first break came early, as she fronted the all-female musical group Girl's Tyme, appearing on the television show, "Star Search." The group eventually morphed into the R&B group Destiny's Child, managed by her father, in the mid-1990s. The group was an instant hit, piling up hits and becoming one of the top-selling female musical groups ever. The group would remain at or near the top of the charts until breaking up in 2006.

All told, Destiny's Child released seven albums, with five top-of-the-chart platinum releases that, in all, sold 50 million records during the period of 1997 to 2006. Chart-toppers included "No, No, No", "Say My Name", "Bills, Bills, Bills", and "The Writings on the Wall." Their last release, "8 Days of Christmas" didn't sell as well, and Destiny's Child disbanded, with Beyoncé already taking the opportunity to rebrand herself as a solo artist, a move that would make her more famous and more wealthy than she likely ever realized.

Achieving Fame and Fortune

As she pursued a solo career, Beyoncé found fame in other areas of the entertainment world, co-starring with Michael Myers in "Austin Powers in Goldmember" in 2002, and rolling out her first solo album, entitled "Dangerously in Love." The album was a smash hit winning five Grammy awards and reaching No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Beyoncé cashed in on two number-one singles on the album, "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy."

In 2006, just after Destiny's Child broke up, Beyoncé released her second solo album, called "B'Day."

She continued on a rock and blues path, mixing in some hip-hop into the mix on the album. She also stayed plugged into filmmaking, appearing in "The Pink Panther" in 2006, "Obsessed" in 2009 and "Epic" in 2013.

Beyoncé also married rap artist and burgeoning music business tycoon Jay-Z on April 4, 2008, just as she was embarking on a new track - enveloping herself in a new persona in Sasha Fierce that would go on to net Beyoncé six Grammy awards with the introduction of her next album "I Am . . . Sasha Fierce" in 2010. Altogether, Beyoncé sold over 100 million records as a solo artist, along with 60 million more as a member of Destiny's Child. She also earned 23 Grammy awards and is now the most-nominated female artist in the award's history. Forbes named Beyoncé as the most powerful female entertainer in the world in 2015 and 2017.

Beyoncé continued her singing and acting career, while beginning to carve a niche for herself as a businesswoman and mother, giving birth to a daughter in 2010, and in 2017 added a set of newborn twins the family. A famously private couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z remain married today, as she continues her career as an entertainer and begins a new one as an activist supporting Democratic party political causes and various social justice causes, including LGBT and transgender rights over the ensuing years.

She has also accumulated a bundle of cash through periodic performance tours, earning $119.5 million from her 2009 world tour and another $212 million from her 2013-2014 tour.

Through it all, Beyoncé has continued to amass a financial fortune, riding from $184 million in 2012 to $500 million in 2018. Here's a rundown of her annual earnings from 2012 to 2018:

2010: $157 million

2011: $171 million

2012: $184 million

2013: $199 million

2014: $318 million

2015: $336 million

2016: $419 million

2017: $450 million

2018: $500 million

Beyoncé's Endorsement Income

Beyoncé has also leveraged her personal brand to make it big in the advertising world.

She has been featured on high profile ad campaigns for Pepsi (PEP - Get Report) (in 2002), and afterward, signed on with L'Oreal (LRLCY) , American Express (AXP - Get Report) , Samsung, Ford (F - Get Report) , and Direct TV.

She has also built her own fashion, called House of Dereon, in a business partnership with her mother and rolled out a highly profitable fragrance line that has earned about $500 million in sales in the past decade.

In 2018, Beyoncé took her entertainment industry brand to another level, inking a pact with Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) for $60 million to provide content to the streaming giant, releasing her appearance at Coachella in early 2019.

A Hefty Real Estate Portfolio

Beyoncé, in partnership with Jay-Z, owns a robust portfolio of real estate properties both in the U.S. and internationally, including a mansion at Indian Creek Manor in Miami (sold for $8 million), a New Orleans home priced at nearly $3 million, and a mansion worth $26 million on Long Island, in the Hamptons.

But it was Beyoncé and Jay-Z's $88 million purchase of a Bel Air, Calif., mansion that made headlines. The property boasts a 15-vehicle garage, a regulation-sized basketball court, and pools on two acres of prime Southern California real estate.

How Beyoncé Spends Her Money

Beyoncé is widely considered to be a savvy business icon, and has earned hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, often with conservative business investments.

She does like to buy lavish gifts for her family, purchasing a $2 million Bugatti Veyron Grand for Jay-Z to celebrate his 42nd birthday and also shelling out $40 million for a private jet for Jay-Z as a Father's Day present.

Current Status

Beyoncé's career remains in high gear in 2019, appearing as the voice of Nala in Disney's "The Lion King" and continuing with her myriad business interests.

With a new decade on tap, expect Beyoncé to be a major force in the entertainment industry and - along with her husband Jay-Z - to be major industry power players for years to come.

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Destiny's Child 'The Writing's On The Wall' Turns 20 - NPR

Posted: 28 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT

It's been 20 years since Destiny's Child released the band's second album, "The Writing's on the Wall."

(SOUNDBITE OF DESTINY'S CHILD SONG, "BILLS, BILLS, BILLS")

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:

With those few notes, we're going back in time when LeToya Luckett, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and Beyonce told off a trifling, good-for-nothing type of brother.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BILLS, BILLS, BILLS")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) At first we started out real cool, taking me places I ain't never been. But now you're getting comfortable, ain't doing those things you did no more. You're slowly making me pay for things your money should be handling.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: "Bills, Bills, Bills" was a big hit for Destiny's Child, helping to make their second album, "The Writing's On The Wall," a critical and commercial success. Well, that album's release was 20 years ago this weekend - 20. I feel old. Reason enough to have music critic Ann Powers and NPR's Leah Donnella tell us how it's aged and what they thought when they first heard these songs back in 1999.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BILLS, BILLS, BILLS")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Can you pay my automo-bills (ph)? If you did, then maybe we could chill. I don't think you do, so you and me are through.

LEAH DONNELLA, BYLINE: So I was 8 when "Bills, Bills, Bills" was first released. And so the first time I heard it, I was probably, like, sitting in the backseat of my mom's minivan. So I think I was, like, listening to it and jamming to it before I could even really process, like, what the lyrics meant.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BILLS, BILLS, BILLS")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Oh, silly me, why haven't I found another? I don't know. You trifling, good-for-nothing type of brother. Hey, hey, hey.

ANN POWERS: I think, Leah, you know, you being a kid when you heard that song - the power that the women of Destiny's Child were projecting was enticing to young girls. For me, it was a very different experience since I was in my 30s when that song came out. It was such a major wave, you know, of R&B and teen pop at that moment. Everything was changing.

DONNELLA: This was around the same time that Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were getting really big. And I think so many of the songs were very much like "(You Drive Me) Crazy," I'm so in love with you, like, women being in, I guess, lower status positions. So many of the songs on "The Writing's On The Wall" were about being in a position of power and being like, oh, you're cheating on me, or you're not paying your bills, or you're calling me too much or any of those things, and I think that's terrible, and I'm going to leave you.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SAY MY NAME")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Say my name. Say my name. When no one is around you, say Baby, I love you if you ain't running game. Say my name. Say my name. You acting kind of shady.

DONNELLA: Beyonce was 17 when this album came out, and it's not high school at all. It's not like, oh, I have a crush on this guy. Like, these songs are about money and independence. And so it's kind of remarkable to me that these were 17-year-olds singing about this stuff.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JUMPIN', JUMPIN'")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Ladies, leave your man at home. The club is full of ballers and their pockets full-grown. And all you fellas, leave your girl with her friends because it's 11:30, and the club is jumpin', jumpin'.

POWERS: When I hear this song today, I think, wow, in a way, it lays out so much of what Beyonce does musically.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "JUMPIN', JUMPIN'")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Through parlaying at the hottest spot, tonight you're gonna find the fellas rolling in the Lexus, drops and Hummers. Though he say he got a girl, yeah, it's true you got a man, but the party ain't gon' stop, so let's make it hot, hot.

POWERS: To me, what makes Beyonce the remarkable vocalist that she is is her connection to hip-hop and her skill at singing kind of like a rapper, right? - the sharpness of her diction, her sense of timing, her sense of rhythm.

DONNELLA: It's almost like she's just saying the words. Like, obviously there's a melody, but she's saying them. And there's also so much, like, storytelling. She's laying out each thing that's happening in a very clear, precise way.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUG A BOO")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) You make me want to throw my pager out the window, tell MCI to cut the phone poles, break my lease so I can move 'cause you a bug-a-boo (ph), a bug-a-boo.

POWERS: The remarkable thing about "The Writing's On The Wall" is that it sounds like it could have come out this year.

DONNELLA: Yeah, I was so surprised how fresh it still sounds. I mean, there were obviously some kind of cheesy moments, and then there were some dated things, like, you know, using a pager or a beeper.

POWERS: Yes, the production is very late-'90s. We don't have all of the computerized bells and whistles that got developed over the past 20 years. But the dramatic structure of these songs, the stories that are being told, the assertion of - I'm going to call it the feminist attitude and dedication to expressing young women's empowerment - it's fresh. It's now. It's #MeToo.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUG A BOO")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) Out the window, tell MCI to cut the phone poles, break my lease so I can move 'cause you a bug-a-boo, a bug-a-boo, a bug-a-boo.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That's music critic Ann Powers and Leah Donnella of NPR's Code Switch talking about the album "The Writing's On The Wall" by Destiny's Child. It was released 20 years ago this weekend.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BUG A BOO")

DESTINY'S CHILD: (Singing) that when I'm blocking your phone number you call me over your best friend's house...

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Beyonce's 'Spirit' From 'The Lion King' Debuts at No. 1 on Kid Digital Song Sales Chart - Billboard

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

Plus, the all-star "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" bows at No. 5.

Songs from the new version of The Lion King, as well as the film's soundtrack, come roaring in on Billboard's charts.

Beyoncé's original song "Spirit," released July 10, launches at No. 1 on the Kid Digital Song Sales tally (dated July 20), with 7,000 downloads sold in the week ending July 11, according to Nielsen Music. The ballad marks the superstar's first entry on the survey, which ranks the most downloaded kid-centric songs and/or those from movies and TV shows geared toward children.

Meanwhile, Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen's cover of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" starts at No. 5 on the chart with 1,000 sold. Elton John's original version hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1994.

Beyoncé, Glover, Eichner and Rogen are among the voices in Disney's computer-animated The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau and due in theaters Friday (July 19). The film remakes the traditionally-animated 1994 original, which has grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide.

Concurrently, the new movie's soundtrack, which includes "Spirit" and the new version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," debuts at No. 2 on Kid Albums with 2,000 sold after its first day of release (July 11). The 19-song set, featuring nine score pieces by composer Hans Zimmer, also enters the Soundtracks chart at No. 16, with 4,000 equivalent album units earned.

"Spirit" will additionally appear on the Beyoncé-curated collection The Lion King: The Gift. Due Friday (July 19), the set features songs by global artists "steeped in the sounds of Africa," according to the official Instagram announcement.

All charts will update tomorrow (July 16) on Billboard.com and Billboard.com/biz.

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