I Am... Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé
I Am... Sasha Fierce

The two-disc album I Am… Sasha Fierce, Beyoncé’s third album, released on November 18, 2008, is among her most critically successful releases to date. The album was intended to showcase Beyoncé’s “contrasting facets of artistry”, between herself and her ‘alter ego’ Sasha Fierce, the namesake of the second album. She reportedly recorded over 70 songs between December 2007 and August 2008, most of which were influence by her marriage to Jay-Z on April 4, 2008 and her role as Etta James in the film Cadillac Records. Rather than trim the works into one record, she composed them as two separate albums, comparing her artistic process to that of a magazine – complete with two different covers. Despite many collaborations with old and new faces, this was Beyoncé’s first album with no featured artists. She also co-produced or co-wrote every song. A whopping 9 singles came from the release: “If I Were A Boy” and “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” together on October 13, 2008; “Diva” and “Halo” on January 20, 2009; “Ego” on May 19; “Sweet Dreams” on June 2; “Broken-Hearted Girl” on August 28; “Video Phone” on September 22; and “Why Don’t You Love Me” on July 2, 2010. I Am… Sasha Fierce debuted at one on the Billboard 200 chart, earning Beyoncé her third consecutive US number-one solo album. The album earned over thirty platinum and one diamond certifications in separate worldwide markets. It also won six out of seven nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards (2010), and another for her performance of “At Last” in Cadillac Records left her with a record setting seven wins – the most Grammys won in one night by a female. In addition to the standard edition (2 discs; 11 tracks), many other versions of the album were produced – the Deluxe Edition; the Japanese and Japanese Platinum Editions; the iTunes Store-exclusive Deluxe Edition; A Walmart Exclusive Disc; the 2010 Deluxe Re-release; the Platinum Edition, with the Above and Beyoncé video compilation; and The Bonus Tracks EP.
Distribution of songs on I Am... Sasha Fierce by producer