{"id":749403,"date":"2026-07-06T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/?p=749403"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:58:58","slug":"beyonces-morning-dew-donk-debuts-at-no-102-with-437k-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/2026\/07\/beyonces-morning-dew-donk-debuts-at-no-102-with-437k-streams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;MORNING DEW (DONK)&#8221; Debuts at No. 102 with 437K Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_730842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-730842\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-Met-Gala-2015-GettyImages-472992962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"791\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-730842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-Met-Gala-2015-GettyImages-472992962.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-Met-Gala-2015-GettyImages-472992962-630x453.jpg 630w, https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-Met-Gala-2015-GettyImages-472992962-768x552.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-730842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyonce at the Met Gala on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beyonc\u00e9 suffered the worst song debut of her career. Her surprise single, &#8220;MORNING DEW (DONK),&#8221; debuted at No. 102 on the Spotify chart with 437,000 streams. &#8220;DONK&#8221; is Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s first new song to drop in 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>The song surprised her fans who weren&#8217;t expecting new music from the 44-year-old pop singer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;MORNING DEW (DONK)&#8217; by Beyonc\u00e9 has FLOPPED debuting at #102 on the US Spotify chart with 437k streams ??? <\/p>\n<p>A family that flops together stays together? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KmDgvrt8Ct\">pic.twitter.com\/KmDgvrt8Ct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AkademiksTV\/status\/2073865048574013619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t clear who the song is targeted to, but the BBL subject matter and the sound of clapping cheeks weren&#8217;t well-received.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_730841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-730841\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-2016-Met-Gala-wenn23816428.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1599\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-730841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-2016-Met-Gala-wenn23816428.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-2016-Met-Gala-wenn23816428-306x453.jpg 306w, https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-2016-Met-Gala-wenn23816428-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Beyonce-2016-Met-Gala-wenn23816428-1037x1536.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-730841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyonc\u00e9 at the Met Gala on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Morning Dew&#8221; (stylized in all caps) was released on July 4 as the first song from the 20th anniversary of her second studio album <em>B&#8217;Day<\/em>. A demo of the same song, recorded for her 2013 self-titled album <em>Beyonc\u00e9<\/em>, previously leaked online in 2023 and went viral on TikTok in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A little morning dew<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a river inside that flows from our love<br \/>\nYou can tap in but don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t tap out, oh<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a slip in the slide, that front to back love<br \/>\nRight there, baby, don&#8217;t tap out, tap out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;DONK&#8221; was written by Pharrell Williams, The-Dream, and Beyonc\u00e9 for Bey&#8217;s fifth studio album <em>Beyonc\u00e9<\/em>, but the song was left off the album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DONK&#8221; marks the 60-day countdown to the 20th anniversary of her album <em>B&#8217;Day<\/em>, which was originally released in 2006. The anniversary album follows rapper Jay-Z&#8217;s much-hyped 30th anniversary of his debut classic album, <em>Reasonable Doubt<\/em>, which only sold 30,000 copies in its first week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; MORNING DEW (DONK)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>SR rated: 2\/5 Roses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sandrarose.com\/images33\/rating-2roses-220x38.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"38\" border=\"0\" alt=\"roses\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Mv5f9Q2LJYM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beyonc\u00e9 - MORNING DEW (DONK)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mv5f9Q2LJYM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyonc\u00e9 suffered the worst chart debut of a song in her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[100,120,1852,12125,9110],"class_list":{"0":"post-749403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-news","8":"tag-beyonce","9":"tag-jay-z","10":"tag-music-news-2","11":"tag-music-streaming-sales","12":"tag-new-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749406,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749403\/revisions\/749406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrarose.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}