Beyoncé, we salute you! Here are 40 reasons to love the queen of pop - in pictures

Running the world since Destiny’s Child hit the big time in 1999, Beyoncé is the superstar so electric she blacked out a Super Bowl.

Now Queen Bey is taking over the stage at London’s O2 on the European leg of her Mrs Carter World Tour, just a week after she gave a sparkling performance of new song XO at the BRITs.

In a career spanning more than 15 years, Beyoncé has sold over 118 million records worldwide, won 17 Grammys, performed at two inaugurations and had us sobbing into our pillows with biopic Life Is but a Dream.

As if that wasn’t enough, she’s also a designer, philanthropist, feminist, one half of one of the best loved couples of all time and mother to the cutest baby on Instagram.

So here’s 40 reasons (as if you needed any more) to love Beyoncé. #BowDown