Energy, the party starting dance track by Beyoncé featuring BEAM is now certified Gold in Canada for selling more than 40,000 units in that country. Track five from Renaissance (Parkwood/Columbia), Beyoncé’s seventh studio album was released on July 29, 2022. The song’s latest certification was announced by Music Canada on Monday August 21, 2023.
The original release of “Energy,” sampled Kelis’s “Milkshake,” a track that was originally produced by The Neptunes but Kelis took issue with the release and criticized Beyoncé and her team for sampling her song without permission.
Kelis, a former Neptunes artist said (Beyoncé’s people) should, “have the common sense and decency to reach out, a manager, an agent anybody should be like heads up this is what we are doing even if you are gonna do it anyway.”
Beyoncé has since removed the Kelis sample from the track.
BEAM, who is the son of Jamaican music legend Papa San sings the hook on the dance anthem which was largely marketed to the LGBTQ community. This is BEAM’s first Canadian music certification.
Already certified Gold for selling 500,000 in the US by the Recording Industry Association Of America,”Energy” sold nearly 12,000 US unit sales two weeks ago, earning its biggest weekly sales since the according to Luminate by way of Chart Data.
The song peaked at No. 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and has been a crowd favorite on Beyonce’s Renaissance world tour with BEAM’s vocals blasting int he stadiums.
The Queen 👸🏾 In Atl #bey #BeyonceRenaissanceTour #Beyonce #energy #blu #fans #beehive pic.twitter.com/FaniCZ9amZ
— Divaswillspeak (@LadyMzSpeaks) August 21, 2023
It is BEAM’s highest charting song to date and it also peaked at No. 13 on the US Billboard streaming chart, and No. 12 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. Beam is also credited as producer for the track that has surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify. It is his first song to reach the milestone.
Last September latin Superstar Camilla Cabello included a mashup of the song in the her Rock In Rio perfomance
Camila Cabello performing Beyoncé & BEAM’s “Energy” from #RENAISSANCE at #RockInRio
— Kyle (@WordsByKyle) September 11, 2022
