Beyoncé — Ego

A brass-driven deep cut from the deluxe edition of I Am... Sasha Fierce is broadly charting today, appearing on 131 country and platform charts. According to Genius, Ego was the album's fifth single, later remixed with an added Kanye West verse, and it sits in the swaggering, horn-heavy lane of Beyoncé's catalog — a confidence anthem built around a single sustained metaphor and a hook designed to be chanted. It arrived as the more brash counterpart to the album's Sasha Fierce alter-ego concept, the persona Beyoncé used to split her ballads from her bravado. The track has had a long second life on social platforms, where its spoken-word intro and stomping rhythm lend themselves to entrances and reveals. It is having a notable presence on the global charts today.