Beyoncé is undoubtedly one of the world´s most talented musicians and a successful businesswoman in her own right. Her net worth is an estimated $450 million dollars, making her one of the highest female celeb earners and the perfect cover star for Marbella Rocks Money Issue.
However Bey’s humble attitude never fails to endear her to fans. She has quoted that her biggest goal in life is just to be happy: “I have a lot of property. I’ve invested my money and I don’t have to make anymore, because I’m set. I’m now able really to be free and just do things that make me happy.”
Although happiness seems to be at the top of Beyoncé’s list, her 7 bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills and a range of luxury cars totalling up to $10 million, must help right?!
CONQUERING THE WORLD
At only 34, Beyoncé has already built her empire and is tipped to stay at the top for the foreseeable future. Her most recent album Beyoncé broke records selling a total of 617,000 copies in the first two weeks of being released. This even beat her album B’day that sold 514,000 in the same time period. What’s most impressive is that it was a secret album release and Bey shocked fans by releasing the album exclusively via iTunes on the morning of 13th December, without any pre-release announcements.
Beyoncé has also won her fair share of awards, including a total of 14 Grammy’s. This year she won best album for the secret release of Beyoncé. She has been named the most nominated woman in Grammy history!
It is thought that if she were to separate from Jay-Z the divorce would cost a total of $1 billion dollars, being the highest celebrity divorce in history.
There has been an ongoing conspiracy that Jay-Z has been having an affair with his young protégée Rihanna. Not only this but at the Met Gala in 2014 a feud between Bey’s sister Solange Knowles and her husband Jay-Z erupted where Solange had actually hit Jay-Z in an elevator. Solange accused her brother in law of getting too close for comfort to fashion designer, Rachel Roy. The pap’s captured this moment and even then, Beyoncé, typically maintained her complete professionalism and didn’t batter an eyelid at the paparazzi, instead she remained completely calm and unfazed despite her angered sis. Beyoncé is famously known for keeping her personal life private and I’m sure this public dispute was her worst nightmare, especially between two people so close to her.
Beyoncé has been the face of many brands we know and love including Armani Diamonds perfume; this iconic advertisement back in 2007 seemed to fit well with Beyoncé’s feminist attitude, she quotes: “Diamonds often are a sign of a woman’s strength these days. Now women can buy their own diamonds.”
This strong, female attitude is exactly what Beyoncé has always demonstrated especially through her music, such as ‘Irreplaceable’.
Therefore to feature in an ad where this is again reconciled, reminds us of Beyoncé’s ultimate goal to be successful in her own right. Girl power!
MAKING WAVES WITH TIDAL
Jay Z and Beyoncé’s subscription-based music streaming service called Tidal combines lossless audio and high definition music videos with curated editorial. A service, which claims to pay the highest royalties to the artists, it has over 35 million tracks and 85,000 music videos.
Among the stars that co-own and support tidal such as Nicki Minaj, Usher and Madonna it has caused outrage for some artists. 50 Cent explained: “We probably could have [done] something more exciting if they reached out because the people you saw there don’t even own the rights to their own music. So they can’t say it’s just going to come out on Tidal, it has to go everywhere. So why would you actually buy Tidal to get something that would be everywhere else.”
It seems the Tidal launch is a new craze that’s got everyone talking whether in a positive or negative way. The main message of the vocally negative celebs seems to find Tidal’s purpose, somewhat pointless and just a way of highly paid artists to earn even more through a monthly paid subscription.
Despite the feuds, Tidal is bound to be a success solely down to the big names involved. Jay Z and Beyoncé know what they’re doing and the die-hard fans out there will always supporting their musical idols. Plus, to so many the artists are the ones that should be rewarded for producing music not the sellers like iTunes and Spotify, which give a comparably small fee to artists from selling or streaming their music compared to Tidal.
STYLE ICON
Beyoncé’s style over the years has varied, not in an eccentric and outlandish way like Gaga but definitely in her own, signature, Bey-way.
What we love most about Beyoncé’s style is that she’s not afraid to be casual and rock high street fashion but can still show up to the Met Gala in a racy see-through Givenchy gown, and still maintain her sophisticated rep.
WHATS NEXT FOR BEY
It’s been over three years since Beyoncé and Jay had their first child: Blue Ivy, so it’s no surprise they want another little brother or sister for her. It has become known that Bey struggles to conceive, she suffered a miscarriage back in 2009 and she described it as –
“The saddest thing I’ve ever been through” – Jay-Z references the miscarriage in his song Glory – dedicated to Blue Ivy and Beyoncé, which was the first time fans found out about this trauma for the couple.
It is rumoured that they are planning to use a surrogate mother to carry their next child for them. Jay hopes this will help their marriage after all the cheating allegations and bring them closer together.
It has been suggested that Beyoncé is planning an end of 2016 worldwide tour following a new album. However all her representatives are keeping it top secret and there has even been security on the doors of her recording studios to make sure no one gets a hint. We’re keeping our eyes peeled for any more info on her next album, as after all she didn’t win 14 Grammys for nothing!
BEYONCE´S RISE TO SUPERSTARDOM
1981- Born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles in Houston, US.
1989- Aged only 8 Beyoncé appeared in school talent shows and it was clear even then of her incredible talent.
1990- Beyoncé, her cousin Kelly Rowland, and two of her classmates formed girl band ‘Destiny’s Child’.
1994- even at the tender age of just 13 Beyoncé’s budding career proved too much pressure for her parents. They separated due to her father (Matthew Knowles) obsession.
1997- Destiny’s child released their first hit single ‘No, No, No’
2002- Beyoncé landed a role as Foxxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers film, Goldmember, this established Beyoncé as a true Hollywood star. She then released her first solo single “Work It Out” in the same year.
2003- Although the soundtrack from Goldmember failed to chart nationally, her full-length solo album- Dangerously in Love, reached a multi platinum status. Featuring big artists such as Missy Elliot and Jay-Z, this album release was the debut of Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé’s alter ego, a sexier, aggressive and all round more fun side to her.
2006- Destiny’s Child decided to take a break and Beyoncé pursued her solo career by releasing B’day in September ’06. Then just 3 months later she achieved an award winning performance for the musical film Dream Girls.
2008 – I Am… Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé’s third studio. This incredible album gave Bey’ the opportunity to really exploit her demon alter ego who is Sasha Fierce. She once quoted “I wouldn’t like Sasha if I met her offstage”. In the same year she married Jay-Z.
2010- in her established career of 5 studio albums Beyoncé decided to kill off Sasha Fierce, as she no longer needed her anymore. To confirm this she went on to name her 5th studio album simply, Beyoncé.
2012- Beyoncé gives birth to daughter Blue Ivy
2014- Beyoncé and Jay-Z begin their ‘On the Run’ World Tour together.
2015- Beyoncé duets ‘Drunk in love’ with Ed Sheeran at the Global Citizen Festival, in aid of ending extreme world poverty by 2030.
