I Am... Sasha Fierce (Platinum Edition)

I Am… Sasha Fierce is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Beyoncé. It was released on November 12, 2008, by Columbia Records and Music World Entertainment.

In its original release, I Am… Sasha Fierce was formatted as a double album, intending to market Beyoncé’s dichotomous artistic persona. The first disc ‘I Am…’ contains slow and midtempo pop and R&B ballads, while the second, ‘Sasha Fierce'–titled after Beyoncé’s on-stage alter ego–focuses on more uptempo beats that blend electropop and Europop elements.

The album has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). I Am… Sasha Fierce has sold 10 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century. The album garnered seven Grammy Award nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony (2010), including a nomination for Album of the Year, winning six—the most awards won in one night by a female artist.

During a nine-month period between November 2007 and August 2008, Beyoncé recorded over seventy songs and decided during the editing process that she did not want to reconcile the two approaches into one disc. If a song was meaningless to her, she would cut it off during the process of elimination for the final track listing. After a process of elimination, twelve tracks were selected to be placed on the standard edition of the album, while five additional tracks were chosen to make the final cut for the deluxe edition of the album.

The deluxe edition of I Am… 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.

The platinum edition of I Am… Sasha Fierce was released in Australia on Beyoncé’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” (1979), as well as a DVD containing various music videos from the album’s singles.

In support of her third studio album, she did a concert tour named I Am… World Tour where she performed at 104 shows in 2009-2010.