“Video Phone” featuring pop singer Lady Gaga received two nominations at the 2010 BET Awards for “Video of the Year” and “Best Collaboration”, winning the former category on April 27, 2010. It also received five nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, in the categories of “Best Choreography”, “Best Collaboration”, “Best Pop Video”, “Best Female Video” and “Best Art Direction”. Beyonce Playlist
Knowles received ten nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for I Am… Sasha Fierce, Record of the Year for “Halo”, and Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”, among others. This tied her with Lauryn Hill for most Grammy nominations in a single year by a female artist. Knowles ultimately set the record for the most Grammy awards won on a single night by a female artist, when she won six awards from her ten nominations; Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Halo”, Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for “At Last.”
In January 2010, Knowles was interviewed by USA Today and announced plans to take a break from music in 2010. She stated, “it’s definitely time to take a break, to recharge my batteries. … I’d like to take about six months and not go into the studio. I need to just live life, to be inspired by things again.” During this time, a 60 Minutes segment aired, revealing Knowles was homeschooled as a child and prays before every performance. In February 2010, she featured on Lady Gaga’s song, “Telephone”. The song reached number one on the US Pop Songs chart, thus becoming the sixth number-one on the chart for both Knowles and Gaga. With this, they both tied with Mariah Carey for most number-ones since the Nielsen BDS-based Top 40 airplay chart launched in 1992. It received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 53rd Grammy Awards. 2010-present: Untitled fourth studio albumIn late 2009, producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins confirmed on his twitter account, that he is working on tracks for Knowles’ fourth studio album. Beyonce mp3 Other songwriters and producers also working on the album, include Jim Jonsin, Ne-Yo, Sean Garrett, The Dream, Symbolyc One, Diplo, Switch and Derek E. Miller. In July 2010, it was revealed that Knowles had expressed interest in recording a song for the album that was written by Irish band, The Script. She heard a song the band recorded for their second album, when it was passed around their record company, Sony Music. While on the set of filming a television commercial for Vizio, Knowles was interviewed by Entertainment Tonight and confirmed reports that she had begun working on the album. “I’m actually in the studio now writing songs and producing … I have a lot of live instruments that I’m putting into the tracks to try to change the sound and make my own genre of music. So, I’ll be shooting videos and everybody will be watching them on their Vizio televisions soon.” When asked to clarify what she meant by creating her own genre, in an interview with MTV during the New York screening of her I Am… Beyonce mp3 World Tour DVD release, Knowles replied “Well, I wouldn’t say I’m inventing a new genre … I’m mixing every type of genre that I love and I’m inspired by every type of genre. … It’s not R&B. It’s not typically pop. It’s not rock. It’s just everything I love all mixed together in my own little gumbo of music.” She also revealed that Fela Kuti, The Stylistics, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall have inspired the album. Rap-Up magazine have confirmed the album will be released in 2011. According to Billboard, Beyoncé will perform a 90-minute headline set at the Glastonbury 2011 Festival on June 26th.
Aside from music, Knowles will be making a return to acting, starring in a remake of A Star Is Born, to be directed and produced by Clint Eastwood for Warner Bros. The remake will be the fourth telling of the “A Star Is Born” tale, the most memorable in recent years being the 1976 version with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.