ADVERTISEMENTHard drives containing unreleased music from Beyoncé have reportedly been stolen out of a rental car at the singer’s Cowboy Carter tour in Atlanta.
Local authorities received reports of theft from a vehicle on 8 July – two days before the first of her four concerts in the city.
The vehicle in question was rented by Beyoncé’s choreographer Christopher Grant, who had arrived in Atlanta early to prep for the singer’s mini-residency.
Along with the unreleased music on five thumb drives were footage, show plans and concert set lists. Two MacBook laptops, Apple headphones, as well as luxury clothing and accessories were also reported stolen.
The Atlanta Police Department said in a news release on Monday it has secured an arrest warrant for a suspect whose identity was withheld.
Beyoncé kicked off her tour in late April, taking her Grammy-winning album ‘Cowboy Carter’ to stadiums in the US and Europe.
Her record-breaking album made our Best Albums of 2024 list, in which we said: “Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ lassos American country music’s stale stereotypes in a powerful reclamation of the genre’s Black roots. (…) It’s a topic that’s addressed from the outset: ‘AMERIICAN REQUIEM’ is a slow-burning choral rebellion against outdated, racist ideologies that seek to pigeonhole artists and erase those that contributed to a genre purely because they don’t fit its heavily politicised image. The rest of the 27-track album is a tour de force of tearing it all apart, melding genres and utilising the familiar (on tracks like Beatles’ cover ‘BLACKBIIRD’) to remind listeners of the ways in which Black peoples’ stories have been claimed by white people.”
Beyoncé will end her tour with two Las Vegas nights on 25 and 26 July.
