Release
"I'm in a very good place right now. I'm very happy. I'm growing up, and I'm really comfortable with myself. I'm getting wiser and smarter. ... I know that people see celebrities, and they seem like they're so perfect – they seem like their life is so great, and they have money and fame. But I'm a human being. I cry. I'm very passionate and sensitive. My feelings get hurt. I get scared and nervous like everyone else. And I wanted to show that about myself. It's about love. That's what this album is all about."
—Beyoncé Knowles' statement on the release of the album in 2008.The deluxe edition of the album was released simultaneously with the standard edition. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and then manager, held a listening party for the album in New York on October 22, 2008. On June 16, 2009, Above and Beyoncé: Video Collection & Dance Mixes was released as a combined CD and DVD. The release included a CD of dance remixes to the singles of the album (including the "Ego" remix with rapper Kanye West) and the DVD features videos previously released for these singles. Finally, the platinum edition of I Am... Sasha Fierce was released in a list of selected countries in November 2009, featuring a CD and a DVD. The deluxe edition of the album was re-issued in the United States on November 23, 2009, including all of the previously released songs in addition to the new songs "Poison", "Why Don't You Love Me", and the remix of "Video Phone" with Lady Gaga.
An EP titled I Am...Sasha Fierce – The Bonus Tracks was released on November 23, 2009, in several countries featuring these new tracks. Following the album's digital release, "Ave Maria" debuted at number 150 on November 29, 2008 on the UK Singles Chart. Knowles also covered a version of the song "Honesty" (a 1979 song by Billy Joel) and included it as a bonus track for the platinum edition of the album. It gained some attention in Japan where it charted at number 79 in 2009. After the release of I Am... Sasha Fierce – The Bonus Tracks a new song "Poison", which featured on the EP, became very popular in Korea and reached the top position of the Korean Singles Chart during the week ending February 7, 2010. In February 2010 a bonus track from the album's multiple re-releases "Why Don't You Love Me", which served as a promotional single, climbed up the US Hot Dance Club Songs, eventually taking the top spot and becoming Knowles' thirteenth number-one dance hit. On May 4, 2010, a full-length music video appeared online. After its release as a promotional single, "Why Don't You Love Me" peaked at number fifty-one on the UK Singles chart and at number fourteen on its R&B chart.
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Famous quotes containing the word release:
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born to set thy people free;
from our fears and sins release us,
let us find our rest in thee.”
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