New Beyoncé single arrives at midnight

Global music star and humanitarian Beyoncé suddenly and obliquely announced Monday that she planned to release her new single hours later at midnight.

"6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET," read the updated headers of her Twitter and Instagram accounts, with a respective 15.4 million and 264 million followers. The 28-time Grammy Award winner, 40, had announced last week that she would release "Renaissance," her first solo studio album since 2016, on July 29. That prompted speculation that "Break My Soul" would be the sixth track of what Apple Music says is a 16-song LP.

"Break My Soul Digital Single $1.29," read the order page at Beyoncé's official website, noting, "Delivers via e-mail ... at midnight ET" as a ".wav uncompressed lossless audio" file.

The website also offers a $40 "Renaissance" box set in four versions, differentiated by four different Beyoncé poses on an included T-shirt with screen-printed front and back graphics. The box set also contains a "collectible 'Renaissance' box," a CD of the album, a 28-page photo booklet and a "collectible mini poster." While the cover artwork and T-shirt designs "will be unveiled at a later date," the website says the sight-unseen "Pose 1" and "Pose 4" versions are sold out, while "Pose 2" and "Pose 3" versions remain available.

Beyoncé recently won Grammy Awards for her songs "Black Parade" and "Brown Skin Girl," and for her contribution to Megan Thee Stallion's song "Savage." She first scored hits as part of the female vocal group Destiny's Child, whose members have reunited with her for performances including the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2013 and Coachella in 2018.

Beyoncé has released the solo studio albums "Dangerously in Love" (2003), "B'day" (2006), "I Am … Sasha Fierce" (2008), "4" (2011), "Beyoncé" (2013) and "Lemonade" (2016), and additionally a joint album with her rapper and music-mogul husband Jay-Z in 2018, "Everything Is Love." The following year, Beyoncé put out a live album and curated the multi-artist "The Lion King: The Gift," for the photorealistic 2019 remake of the Disney film.

All six of her solo studio albums reached no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making her "the only act to reach No. 1 with their first six studio efforts, and the only act to debut atop the list with their first six," according to the trade magazine.