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title: Beyoncé Releases 'Morning Dew (Donk)' and Opens a Sixty-Day Countdown to the B'Day Reissue 
description: A surprise new song opens a sixty-day countdown to the anniversary reissue of B'Day, originally launched on her 25th Birthday on September 4, 2006. With it, ...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-05T08:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-06T09:30:51.001Z
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Beyoncé released a new song on the Fourth of July. 'Morning Dew (Donk)' reached streaming platforms at nine in the morning, Eastern time, with no advance notice. The release opened a sixty-day countdown to 4 September, the date of Beyoncé's next birthday and the twentieth-anniversary reissue of *B'Day*, her second studio album. Beyoncé issued the track through Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records. It is her first new music in two years, following Cowboy Carter in 2024.

Written by Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, The-Dream and Darius Dixon, and produced by Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams, "MORNING DEW (DONK)" is the first new song offered from the global entertainer in two years, and it is a direct nod to her loyal BeyHive to commemorate the upcoming epic celebration of B'DAY. The song moves at a slow, deliberate pace. It arrives with a black-and-white lyric video, directed by Cliff Watts and built from footage he shot during Beyoncé's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit feature around her twenty-fifth birthday, the same year *B'Day* came out.

Beyoncé recorded 'Morning Dew (Donk)' under the title 'Donk' in 2013, during the sessions for her self-titled album, though it stayed unreleased when that record came out. Word of the song reached fans in November 2014, when it appeared on a rumoured track list for a new album that Parkwood said never existed. A snippet of the demo leaked online in 2021, and the complete version followed in 2023, circulating widely on TikTok. With this release, Beyoncé turns a song fans had traded for over a decade into an official record.

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