"All Night" is a song by American singerBeyoncé. It is the eleventh track on her sixth studio album,Lemonade (2016), released throughParkwood Entertainment andColumbia Records. The song's music video is part of Beyoncé's 2016 filmLemonade, aired onHBO alongside the album's release.[2]
Areggae-tinged track,[4] "All Night" features "sprinklings" of horns and strings in its instrumentation, while sampling the brass line from "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" written byOutKast (André Benjamin,Antwan Patton) andSleepy Brown (Patrick Brown). The song was sent to Italian radio as the album's fifth single on December 2, 2016.[5] Lyrically, the song focuses on forgiveness and rebuilding trust after infidelity, with the protagonist trying to rekindle the passion with her lover. The song's music video is part of a one-hour film with the same title as its parent album, originally aired onHBO which premiered in April 2016.
The song received critical acclaim from critics upon release.Entertainment Weekly listed "All Night" at number 15 on their list of best songs of the year,[6] with the editor Leah Greenblat commenting "It makes sense that a sweet, tender lullaby of a love song would garner less attention in the immediate wake of Mrs. Carter's firebombLemonade revelations, but it would be a shame to miss this low-key stunner, one of the all-time finest odes to a subject pop music hardly ever deigns sexy enough to address: long-term monogamy."Consequence of Sound included the song at number 38 on their year-end ranking[7] andUSA Today, at number 3.[8] The song would later be voted inVillage Voice's Pazz & Jop the 46th best single of 2016.[9]
After the release ofLemonade, "All Night" debuted on theBillboardHot 100 chart at number 38. The song also debuted on theHot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart at number 23.[10] In overseas charts, although not being an official single, the song entered the top 10 in Sweden's digital charts. As of June, the song has sold 146,832 downloads in US.[11]
The music video for the song was released to YouTube on November 30, 2016.[12] The video features footage from Beyoncé's home movies, including her andJay-Z's wedding day and spending family time with their first daughter,Blue Ivy.[13] The video featuresZendaya,Amandla Stenberg,Chloe x Halle, twin sister music duoIbeyi andQuvenzhané Wallis.[14]
