Homecoming: The Live Album
by Beyoncé
  • Record Label: Parkwood
  • Release Date: Apr 17, 2019
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 719 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 570 out of 719
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 719
  3. Negative: 136 out of 719
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  1. titobrrt1207
    Jul 30, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Beychella é um ato icônico que a gente conseguiu ver. Uma mulher negra ser a primeira headliner de um dos maiores festivais de música e entregar o melhor espetáculo dele.… Expand
  2. Willfoiatto
    Jul 30, 2020
    10
    Incrivelmente bom de ouvir se tratando de um show realmente ao vivo. Beychella foi algo histórico!
  3. diogo_nunes
    Aug 5, 2020
    10
    Quando dizem: a Beyonce é melhor ao vivo do q já é no estúdio, n é exagero kkkkk Esse show foi realmente histórico!!!!!!
  4. beethatbites1
    Aug 5, 2020
    10
    Phenomenal artistic/technical/human accomplishment. Profoundly moving. Deeply personal, but also the voice of a people.
  5. Nuninhos
    Aug 10, 2020
    10
    A gravação do show ficou incrível!!! A potencia da voz da Beyoncé é coisa d outro mundo kkkkk dá pra sentir a força e o poder dessa muler só ouvindo esse album. Ela realmente conseguir trazer para o album toda a força q o show e o documentário tem. PARABENS RAINHA...
  6. benko13
    Nov 2, 2020
    10
    I'm not afraid of saying that this is probably the best 'live album' ever made. There is just no single flaw in this masterpiece, it is hard to even imagine that all this music and vocals are recorded live on stage, truly impressive. Beychella forever!
  7. JoseA32
    Jan 23, 2021
    10
    Solamente decir que la calidad de beyonce se nota en cada cosa que hace Queen B por un motivo.
  8. Tammie
    Apr 16, 2021
    10
    This is amazing! It's perfect!
  9. Alexggg
    Apr 24, 2021
    10
    Best album ever made. Your fav could never. The production of this albums is a 10/10 and the live band sound so good with Beyoncé’s voice. My favorite songs are Freedom, I care, and Deja vu.
  10. Maund
    Jul 30, 2022
    10
    I **** love this album holy **** it’s amazing none of u **** could EVER and it’s embarrassing
  11. Blinkbarbz
    Apr 13, 2022
    10
    Simplesmente lendária.......................................................
  12. submnibiriyae
    Jul 16, 2022
    10
    Greatest coachella performance OAT and probably the best performance ever. The queen brings an Afro-band which kills it all the time.
  13. Matt23
    Aug 1, 2022
    10
    What else Queen? Perfect arrangement, everything is here. Maybe Gaga could be a good feature, but anyway, this is a masterpiece for everyone
  14. anjoDpapel
    Jul 16, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best live album all time. Beyonce is GOAT. The most important artist alive.… Expand
  15. attitudebey
    Jul 29, 2022
    10
    The best live album i have ever heard. It feels like I am at a real concert! Beyonce is insane
  16. Ricmello
    Oct 23, 2022
    10
    Everything perfect everything amazing everything beautiful everything magical everything imperceptible the biggest in the world
  17. danielhere
    Jul 30, 2022
    10
    I saw the document soooooo many times on netflix and loved it..loved the dances, songs, colors, vibes, culture and everything
  18. kaolix
    Aug 2, 2022
    10
    a great experience and a tribute to a brilliant career with touches of very musical quality. classic already
  19. AceYejii
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    This album is perfect. Her vocals are amazing and the best live performances album. You have to listen to all the songs. Thank you Beyoncé for this masterpiece !
  20. naomexecomahive
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. . Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen Slay Queen… Expand
  21. eddisawayama
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    After Homecoming, it is a fact that Beyoncé is the greatest live performer of all time. More than the vocals, the choreography, and showmanship, the genius musical transitions and storytelling in this live album are exceptional.
  22. ariesgroove
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    Sounds like you are physically at Coachella! Beautifully highlights the stomps and the chants of the band at Coachella giving it a remarkable feel of nostalgia and belonging as you too can also take part in the chants and stomps. The live band are incredible with its remakes of Beyoncé classics such as Crazy In Love, Single Ladies and Love On Top. It's safe to say, that Beyoncé hasSounds like you are physically at Coachella! Beautifully highlights the stomps and the chants of the band at Coachella giving it a remarkable feel of nostalgia and belonging as you too can also take part in the chants and stomps. The live band are incredible with its remakes of Beyoncé classics such as Crazy In Love, Single Ladies and Love On Top. It's safe to say, that Beyoncé has incredible musicality and this live album really shows that.… Expand
  23. Aleknowles
    Aug 23, 2022
    10
    Beyonce is a living legend of our time, undervalued for the great artist who is none like her
    The greats masterpiece
  24. jesusbronze
    Apr 26, 2019
    9
    Beyonce's new surprise release has the most appropriate title: It is a triumphant compilation of her already iconic performance at Coachella in 2018 which reminds its listeners that when it comes to live performances, no one in the industry can do it as she does. Welcome Back!
  25. gabrielcipriano
    Apr 25, 2019
    9
    Beyoncé, continues with her strong legacy and being one of the most complete artists of that time. But it's all the same, I do not see anything new or even improvised! She has a fortissima vocation that brings a good expression while watching and listening.
  26. All_ButTrU4
    Oct 22, 2021
    9
    Phenomenal album. Undeniably the greatest live album and perhaps on of the greatest album's, in general of it's time and others. I will return to write a proper review because to attempt to digest a record this gargantuan at such an immediate pace is insulting to the art.
  27. diegomoontoya
    Sep 17, 2020
    9
    incredible, Beyoncé's creativity is always in the top, she's one of the most important women of all time, and her work is always iconic, she deserves alwayas she wants
  28. Petrocelli1960
    Sep 28, 2019
    8
    A very good album but... you really have to watch the Netflix video to fully understand the scope of the work.
  29. jards
    Apr 19, 2019
    8
    The new arrangements, the transitions between the songs are amazing. It's a show of creativite!
  30. YWGWYW
    Jun 18, 2019
    8
    Her equivalent to Marvin Gaye's Live at the London Palladium - a concert display that solidifies her legacy better than any compilation record could have. Our Yoncé deserves a moment to step back; in just over five years she's released two visual albums, a collaborative record with her husband in the wake of publicly handling his infidelity, went on four massive world tours, and mercifullyHer equivalent to Marvin Gaye's Live at the London Palladium - a concert display that solidifies her legacy better than any compilation record could have. Our Yoncé deserves a moment to step back; in just over five years she's released two visual albums, a collaborative record with her husband in the wake of publicly handling his infidelity, went on four massive world tours, and mercifully finally injected activism into her music (did I mention she gave birth to twins in the middle of all that?). If she were an HBCU student majoring in the art of being an entertainer, her 2018 Coachella appearance could be considered a capstone project of her new era of work (even it this pulls much more from the massively underrated 4 than I thought it would!), and something that sets her up to graduate summa cum laude. All hail the homecoming queen.

    (this almost makes me want to go to a music festival but not really)    … Expand
  31. fabinhu
    Jul 26, 2020
    4
    It is just boring. Beyonce has been lost in time, I think she doesn't know how to do it well anymore.
  32. eadawdaddw
    Aug 9, 2023
    3
    Shocking that this album is a 95. Nothing special and it is very ovverated to be honest.
  33. lauraschwartz
    Jun 25, 2019
    2
    Beyonce is always doing the same thing, the same kind of music, dancings... Is not enough? Can't you change a little bit and do some different, some new stuff? She is an amazing singer, one of the best, her voice is great, but if you listen to 1 album, you can say that you had listen to all because they're very similar.
  34. FosterChad
    Jun 18, 2019
    1
    For me an unnecessary release. Fans are interested in new stuffs and not recycling old hits.Beyoncé is much better than this show
  35. AlexSans
    Sep 16, 2020
    1
    Un álbum absurdo no me gusto no me parece que se considere un álbum en si y no me parece justo que tenga buenas criticas.
  36. Trigueiro
    Jun 3, 2019
    0
    More of the same. And tracks in their incomplete version being sung.
    It should not be cool to pretend this is a good job.
  37. EmmLazarev
    May 22, 2019
    0
    Overrated. I do not understand how they say it's good music, when it's not.
  38. cuzinho1
    Mar 19, 2021
    0
    It's just a MESS. I don't understand why it has 98 metacritic score. I think the reviewers are deaf?
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95

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. PopMatters
    Apr 12, 2021
    70
    Long segments don't even feature Beyoncé, which can be trying on the album but in the film are understood as the accompaniment to dance routines and skits.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Apr 23, 2019
    100
    Beyoncé’s ambitions outstrip those of her peers. ... Yes, Homecoming is one of the greatest live albums ever. If nothing else, the intention behind her performance makes it so. ... So much action. So many cues and rhythms, so much narrative momentum. Its melodic and rhythmic quotes need footnotes to fully absorb, and her voice resonates with history. Still, calling it the best live album of all time may be a stretch. ... Hell if I know, but it ranks way, way up there. ... So yeah, it’s fair to say that Beyoncé, and this work, is genius.
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  3. HipHopDX
    Apr 23, 2019
    96
    Not only is Homecoming an artistically-sound triumph, it’s a cultural touchstone and, quite possibly, the live album of a generation.
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