Beyoncé New Music Waiting & Black Culture Download/Heat Fragrance Commercial + “I AM…” World Tour Dates0 comments

According to WWD Beyonce is launching her first fragrance called “Heat” in February. A promo commercial video was launched featuring an update version of her song  “Fever”. We’re excited about the new scent and anxious to smell the fragrance.  Beyonce is also keeping busy in the New Year. The I Am World tour is continuing with dates in South America.  Two new Beyonce tracks have also leaked online. One called Black Culture features a sample from Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop” and Waiting is produced by Stargate.  Way to go Bey! Happy New Year! Enjoy!!
Beyoncé – HEAT – New Fragrance Commercial – FULL COMMERICAL  ADDED UPDATE

“I’m so happy with it,” she said during an exclusive interview with WWD. “I’ve been working on it for a while now. I was on tour for a year, and I have meet-and-greets with fans. I’ve never in my life gotten so many compliments. Coty has their own testing, but that was my testing! The fans loved it. They were like, ‘I love that, I’m getting that, why isn’t it out right now? I need it!” said Knowles with a laugh.

Her fans’ passion helped spark the development process. “What inspires me [both in music and product creation] is love, passion — something that makes me want to be better, to do more,” she said. “Knowing that I have people who look to me — because thank God I’ve had so many great opportunities — I don’t take it for granted. Young girls can see me, and think, ‘Wow. Maybe if I work hard and I’m focused, I can do the same thing.’ And they absolutely can. It’s not just about me being a singer. It’s about knowing that I have people who look at my life, and to know I can inspire them inspires me.”

For the fragrance’s name, Knowles drew from her past tours. “A lot of my performances have had fire involved, so we thought ‘Heat.’ Also, red is one of my favorite colors, as is gold,” she noted; both colors frame the bottle. “So then we thought of making the bottle look like it’s on fire. I love antique bottles — my mother had a collection of them when I was growing up. I wanted something with an antique yet modern feeling. Even with my wardrobe, I always try to find things that have a little bit of something vintage, yet still timeless and classic. The bottle, I felt, was a great mixture of the two.”

The juice, which Knowles concocted with Givaudan’s Claude Dir and Olivier Gillotin, has top notes of red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach; a heart of honeysuckle nectar, almond macaroon and crème de musk, and a drydown of giant sequoia milkwood, tonka bean and amber.

“This was my first time starting from scratch, although I’ve worked with a few other fragrance projects,” said Knowles, who has also been the face of Tommy Hilfiger’s True Star and Giorgio Armani’s Diamonds. “Everything, from the bottle design to the name and the ideas for the commercials — that’s me. When I commit to something, I do it 100 percent, and I’ve never had [creative control over a fragrance] until this project. I learned a lot of great things from the past — but I always asked myself, ‘If I could have my own scent, what would it be?’ I wasn’t worried about deadlines. It could have taken me three, four, however many years — this was my first fragrance, and I wanted to make sure that it was something I would love forever.”

And there will definitely be more fragrances, said Stephen Mormoris, senior vice president, global marketing, at Coty Beauty, a division of Coty Inc., which holds Knowles’ scent license.

“We will explore all of the different sides of Beyoncé with future fragrances, but Beyoncé Heat is meant to be the enduring classic,” said Mormoris. “We think this scent will re-energize the celebrity category.” Mormoris declined to discuss how large a house of Beyoncé fragrances could be, although industry sources estimated a Knowles-branded fragrance collection could represent a $300 million market opportunity within a few years.

The Beyoncé Heat lineup includes eaux de parfum in three sizes — 1 oz. for $39; 1.7 oz. for $49, and 3.4 oz. for $59 — as well as a 6.8-oz. Gold Sparkling Body Lotion for $24.
In addition to its U.S. distribution — about 2,000 department and specialty store doors, including Macy’s — the collection will be available in Canada and Latin America in February. Additional global distribution — including Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Australia — will begin in August. In-store, the bottle will be on a rotating platform meant to show off its facets and graduated coloring. The top of the bottle is edged with a gold band, inscribed with the words Beyoncé and Heat, and topped with a cap etched with the letter B. [WWD]

First time the internationally-renowned entertainer will perform live dates in South America

Two-week run extends chart-topping tour to 2010

Superstar and cultural icon Beyoncé is extending her 2009 “I AM…” World Tour to South America for a series of live concerts beginning Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Parque Planeta in Florianópolis, Brazil. The two-week run will end in the Caribbean on the island of Trinidad on Thursday, February 18, 2010 (see itinerary following).
Beyonce – Waiting [lyrics] Mp3 Download

The tour dates mark the first time the international entertainer will perform live concerts in South America. Fans in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru will finally get the chance to see the show that critics around the world have called “spectacular” and “dazzling.”

Recently the “I AM…” World Tour was named the world’s #1 concert attraction by Billboard Magazine’s Hot Tour rankings.

The tour kick-off will come right after the 52nd Annual Grammy® Awards on January 31, where Beyoncé leads the pack of Grammy® nominees this year with an astounding ten nominations including the Top 3 Grammy® categories (Song of the Year for the anthem, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” Record of the Year for “Halo,” and Album of the Year for I AM …SASHA FIERCE. It is the first time she has been nominated in the Album of the Year category. The nominations wrap up a brilliant year for the artist after the release of her third solo multi-platinum, globally successful album, I AM…SASHA FIERCE.
Beyoncé – Black Culture (New Song)

On sale dates for four Brazilian shows have been determined. São Paulo will go on sale on December 19 followed Florianópolis on December 21, Salvador on December 22 and Rio de Janeiro on January 5. Further on-sale details for Trinidad and the other cities will be available on her official site, www.beyonceonline.com

The “I AM…” World Tour in South America and The Caribbean

Thu 2/4 Florianópolis, Brazil Parque Planeta

Sat 2/6 São Paulo, Brazil Pacaembú Stadium

Sun 2/7 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Maracanã Stadium

Wed 2/10 Salvador, Brazil Parque de Exposições

Fri 2/12 Buenos Aires, Argentina Hipodromo de San Isidro

Sun 2/14 Santiago, Chile Arena Movistar

Tue 2/16 Lima, Peru Explanada del Estadio Monumental

Thu 2/18 Port of Spain, Trinidad Queen’s Park Oval

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