Last night saw Beyonce kick off her hotly-anticipated Formation world tour, performing tracks from her surprise new album Lemonade as well as paying tribute to Prince and honouring her 'beautiful' husband Jay Z. See footage, photos and the setlist below.
Queen Bey rolled into Marlins Park in Miami Florida for the opening night of the tour, stunning fans with a tightly-choreographed 35 song, career-spanning set - that showcased a number of tracks from this week's surprise new record, Lemonade.
From Lemonade, she gave the live debut to the likes of 'Hold Up', 'Freedom', 'Sorry', 'Don't Hurt Yourself', 'All Night' and 'Daddy Lessons'.
Despite rumours of Beyonce and husband Jay z's marriage on the rocks and reports that Lemonade deals with his infedility and cheating on her, she ended the night by dedicating closing song 'Halo' to him, saying: "I wanna dedicate this song to my beautiful husband. I love you so much'.
She also performed a cover of Prince's 'Purple Rain', in tribute to his Royal Badness.
Purple Rain. 💜 #FormationWorldTour #MIAMI pic.twitter.com/3zaOaIUbou
— BEYONCÉ REIGNS (@BeyonceReigns) April 28, 2016
Beyonce played:
Intro (Lemonade)
Formation
Sorry
***Flawless
Run the World (Girls)
Intermission (Superpower)
Mine
Baby Boy / Standing on the Sun
Hold Up
Countdown
Me, Myself and I
Runnin' (Lose It All) (Naughty Boy cover)
All Night
Intermission
6 Inch
Don’t Hurt Yourself (with "Freakum Dress" snippet)
Ring the Alarm
Diva
Intermission (Dance Break)
Flawless (Remix)
Feeling Myself (Nicki Minaj cover)
Yoncé
7/11
Drunk in Love
Partition
Rocket
Hip Hop Star
Daddy Lessons
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Purple Rain (Prince cover)
Crazy in Love (with "Bootylicious" snippet)
Naughty Girl
Party
Blow
Sweet Dreams
Die With You
Freedom
Survivor (Destiny’s Child song)
End of Time / Grown Woman
Halo
Beyoncé performing "Crazy In Love" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/oIXoqnXNDm
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing in Miami. #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/6t8Mm20KkJ
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing in Miami. #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/ra1B1aHngT
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé thanking the #BeyHive tonight before performing Me, Myself, and I. #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/p51EpFXJAd
— Formation World Tour (@FormationWT) April 28, 2016
The show is now over! Next stop: Tampa, on Apr. 29th. #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/NgzsI4rTOz
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing "Halo" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/TOQBD5ZUGu
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing "Freedom" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/rcQVBEhNeQ
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing "Daddy Lessons" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/jPDQjzbous
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing "Daddy Lessons" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/IldJM0w6sT
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing "Hold Up" #FormationWorldTour #Miami pic.twitter.com/kXquS4DaCu
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) April 28, 2016
Beyoncé performing 'Mine' tonight in Miami. Amazing choreo! #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/UDDjJfMw49
— BEYONCÉ REIGNS (@BeyonceReigns) April 28, 2016
Rocket. (Partition Style)😈 #FormationWorldTour pic.twitter.com/2rOftYu7t1
— BEYONCÉ REIGNS (@BeyonceReigns) April 28, 2016
Beyonce's full upcoming UK Formation tour dates are below. For tickets and more information, visit here.
Tue June 28 2016 - SUNDERLAND Stadium Of Light
Thu June 30 2016 - CARDIFF Principality Stadium Cardiff
Sat July 02 2016 - LONDON Wembley Stadium
Sun July 03 2016 - LONDON Wembley Stadium
Tue July 05 2016 - MANCHESTER Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Thu July 07 2016 - GLASGOW Hampden Park National Stadium
Sat July 09 2016 - DUBLIN Croke Park