The second international single " Irreplaceable" was a commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States.

The day after the song's release she performed it at the 2016 Super Bowl halftime show with back up dancers dressed to represent the Black Panther Party. In 2004 and 2019, she received NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year and the Soul Train Music Award for Sammy Davis Jr. Beyoncé donated her entire salary from the film to Phoenix House, an organization of rehabilitation centers for heroin addicts around the country. The album was released on June 24, 2003, after Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had released their solo efforts. Charlie Gowans Eglinton of Elle, noted that the perfume promised to be "almost as intoxicating as Bey herself" with a "sexy scent" of musk according to reports she had read.Myf Warhurst on Double J's "Lunch With Myf" explained that while most artists' albums consist of a few singles plus filler songs, Beyoncé "brought the album back", changing the art form of the album "to a narrative with an arc and a story and you have to listen to the entire thing to get the concept". In a 2016 interview with Elle, Beyoncé responded to the controversy surrounding her song " Formation" which was perceived to be critical of the police. On February 1, Beyoncé announced the Renaissance World Tour with dates in North America and Europe, [253] becoming for a short-span the highest-grossing tour by a female artist.

Beyoncé also has had deals with American Express, [409] Nintendo DS [503] and L'Oréal since the age of 18. Beyoncé cited Madonna as an influence "not only for her musical style, but also for her business sense", [292] saying that she wanted to "follow in the footsteps of Madonna and be a powerhouse and have my own empire.The performance was lauded, with several publications noting an ascension in Knowles' capabilities as a live performer. Beyoncé's new style subsequently changed the nature of music, revolutionizing both singing in urban music and rapping in pop music, and becoming the dominant sound of both genres. Having sold over 200million records worldwide (a further 60million additionally with Destiny's Child), Beyoncé is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Her performance of April 14, attended by 125,000 festival-goers, was immediately praised, with multiple media outlets describing it as historic. In 2005, she also received APEX Award at the Trumpet Award honoring the achievements of Black African Americans.

Eat, Play, Love", a cover story written by Beyoncé for Essence that detailed her 2010 career break, won her a writing award from the New York Association of Black Journalists. With a similar opinion, Treye Green of the International Business Times noted more masculine notes with the addition of woods, cashmere, musk. It also included the successful " Sweet Dreams", [109] and singles " Diva", " Ego", " Broken-Hearted Girl" and " Video Phone".The album formally introduces Beyoncé's alter ego Sasha Fierce, conceived during the making of her 2003 single "Crazy in Love". Including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, sixteen artist stakeholders (such as Kanye West, Rihanna, Madonna, Chris Martin, Nicki Minaj and more) co-own Tidal, with the majority owning a 3% equity stake. In celebration of the perfume's release, a contest was also launched by Beyoncé's team asking fans to tell them "what they rise for"; several of them were filmed and their videos were published on Beyoncé's perfume channel. The band have supported Beyoncé in most subsequent live performances, including her 2007 concert tour The Beyoncé Experience, I Am. Beyoncé's musical break lasted nine months and saw her visit multiple European cities, the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids, Australia, English music festivals and various museums and ballet performances.