NEW YORK • Cue up the celebratory tweets - a new Beyonce album is coming.

On Thursday, the singer updated her social media accounts to indicate that a new project called Renaissance, apparently with the subtitle Act I, would be released on July 29.

A link on her website allows fans to add the album in advance to their collections on streaming music services and her site is selling four "poses" - versions, or at least bundles - of boxed sets for the album, containing items including T-shirts, posters and a collectible box.

Renaissance will be Beyonce's first solo studio album since Lemonade in 2016.

But she has released other material since then, including Everything Is Love, her joint album with her rapper-husband Jay-Z in 2018; and songs such as Black Parade (2020), which won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance, and Be Alive (2021), which appeared in the movie King Richard (2021) and was nominated for an Oscar.

What is most surprising is that Beyonce teed up Renaissance in advance at all.

In 2013, she blew up the music industry's marketing playbook by releasing her visual album Beyonce with no notice, simply telling fans via social media that it was available for purchase. She did it again in 2016 for Lemonade.

Canadian rapper Drake, too, surprised his 113 million Instagram followers on Thursday by announcing that his seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind would drop at midnight.

The Grammy winner released his sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy in September last year after months of delay.

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