Sasha Fierce is the third studio album by American singer Beyonce.
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Sasha Fierce received generally positive reviews from music critics and was a massive commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 482,000 units, earning Beyonce her third consecutive US number-one solo album.
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Sasha Fierce collaborated with several record producers and songwriters, including Babyface, Stargate, Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Darkchild, Sean Garrett, Solange Knowles, Jim Jonsin, Rico Love, Ryan Tedder, Bangladesh, Ian Dench, Dave McCracken, Wayne Wilkins and Blac Elvis.
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Sasha Fierce revealed that Sasha was born during the making of her hit single "Crazy in Love".
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Sasha Fierce stated that "it pissed her off that an agency could dictate what her fans wanted based on a survey", pointing out that she was "so exhausted and annoyed with these formulaic corporate companies" and highlighting the album's subsequent great commercial success.
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Sasha Fierce was released in the United States on November 18,2008, and previously in Japan on November 12, in Australia and Germany on November 14, and in France and the United Kingdom on November 17; deluxe edition of the album was released simultaneously with the standard edition.
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Sasha Fierce later performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman after an interview on April 22,2009.
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Sasha Fierce was released in Australia on Beyonce's twenty-eighth birthday on September 4,2009, and in the United States on October 20,2009; it included a cover version of Billy Joel's song "Honesty".
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Sasha Fierce was reissued in the United States on November 23,2009, including all of the previously released songs in addition to the new songs "Poison" and the remix of "Video Phone" with Lady Gaga.
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Sasha Fierce was ranked at numbers three-hundred-and-thirty-three and five-hundred-and-eighty in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
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Sasha Fierce won a Soul Train Music Award for Best Album of the Year at the 2009 Soul Train Music Awards.
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Sasha Fierce won a record-setting six Grammy Awards out of seven, and an award for her rendition of the classic Etta James' song "At Last", from the Cadillac Records soundtrack.
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Sasha Fierce debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 482,000 copies in its first week and giving Beyonce her third consecutive number-one album in the United States.
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Sasha Fierce emerged as the tenth best-selling album of the year according to Billboard.
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Sasha Fierce rose from number five to its highest peak of number two in its thirty-ninth week on the chart, which was the week of August 16,2009.
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Sasha Fierce debuted at number nine on November 24,2008 and peaked at number eight on January 5,2009.
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