Beyoncé released a 31 track deluxe edition of her sophomore album B’Day on September 3, timed one day ahead of both her own birthday and the album’s original release date twenty years earlier. The reissue folds in previously unheard recordings, new Spanish language collaborations and a run of remastered visuals, capping off a rollout that started months before the actual release date.
What’s actually new on this deluxe edition
The expanded tracklist adds several songs that never appeared on the original 2006 release, including Creole, Back Up, Lost Yo Mind, My First Time and a long awaited collaboration with Pharrell Williams called Can I Watch You. The most culturally layered addition is Cuerpo Tumbao, Beyoncé’s first recorded collaboration with Colombian star Maluma, which samples Celia Cruz’s La Negra Tiene Tumbao and was framed in the album’s release materials as a tribute to Cruz’s influence and cultural pride.
The reissue also includes Irreemplazable, a Spanish language duet built around vocals from the late Selena Quintanilla, approved by Selena’s estate and tied back to how the Tejano icon shaped Beyoncé’s own 2007 Spanish language EP. Rounding out the Spanish language material are translated versions of Get Me Bodied and Listen, along with additional remixes of earlier singles.
Beyoncé has released ‘B’DAY (20th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION).’
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— Pop Base (@PopBase) September 3, 2026
The visual side of the reissue
Alongside the new music, Beyoncé remastered the album’s original videos, which were shot on film, recoloring and finishing them in 4K for the anniversary. The redone video for Déjà Vu, her collaboration with Jay-Z originally directed by Sophie Muller, was released alongside the audio reissue as one of the more visible pieces of the rollout.
The rollout that built up to this
The anniversary project did not arrive without warning. Beyoncé first teased the reissue on July 4 with the surprise release of Morning Dew, a song that had circulated in leaked fragments online for years before finally getting an official release.
A month later, on August 4, she followed with a remix package that included a version of the same song featuring Jay-Z, built around a beat that wove together samples from Soulja Boy, Sheck Wes and the Isley Brothers. Ahead of the digital release, Beyoncé also put out a deluxe vinyl edition packaged with a 60 page collectible booklet and an anniversary CD, giving physical media collectors their own version of the celebration before the full digital tracklist went live.
Where B’Day fits in her catalog
The original B’Day arrived on Beyoncé’s 25th birthday in 2006 as a 13 track album built around live instrumentation and percussive, uptempo production, a deliberate departure from the hip hop production dominating the charts at the time.
It produced six singles, including Déjà Vu, Irreplaceable, Get Me Bodied, Green Light and Ring the Alarm, with Irreplaceable becoming her fourth number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album in 2007 and has since been certified quintuple platinum. A first expanded edition followed in April 2007, adding tracks like Flaws and All and Welcome to Hollywood along with early Spanish language experiments and the Shakira collaboration Beautiful Liar.
An open question for her birthday
The timing carries an extra layer this year because Jay-Z is marking his own catalog anniversaries around the same date, including 30 years since Reasonable Doubt and 25 years since The Blueprint, and he is scheduled to perform at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on September 4, Beyoncé’s actual birthday. Neither artist has confirmed any joint appearance, but the overlapping anniversaries and the timing of the show have fans speculating about whether the two might share a stage to mark both occasions at once.
