Beyoncé Releases ‘B’Day 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’ Featuring Unreleased Songs, Collaborations With Selena and Maluma
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Beyoncé has released a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of "B'Day", her 2006 sophomore album, adding remastered audio and video alongside several previously unheard tracks to mark two decades since its original release on 4 September 2006. The reissue's headline additions are her first collaboration with Colombian singer Maluma and a posthumous Spanish-language duet built from archival vocals by the late Selena Quintanilla, whose estate approved the release, giving fans new material tied to a pivotal record in Beyoncé's catalogue.
The new songs include "Cuerpo Tumbao (Get Me Bodied)" with Maluma, which samples Celia Cruz's "La Negra Tiene Tumbao", and "Irreemplazable (Como La Flor)", a Spanish rework of "Irreplaceable" featuring Quintanilla, a fellow Texan Beyoncé has said she long admired and credits with inspiring her 2007 Spanish EP. Other rare or unreleased additions include "Can I Watch You" with Pharrell, plus "Morning Dew (Donk)", "My First Time", "Lost Yo Mind", "Creole" and "Back Up", alongside remastered, 4K-recoloured videos including a revamped visual for "Déjà Vu" featuring Jay-Z. Beyoncé also reflected on the album's original creative intent, saying she aimed to blend hip-hop-era production with classic R&B melodies and live instrumentation.
- Beyoncé released a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of "B'Day"
- New tracks feature Maluma and archival Selena Quintanilla vocals
- Reissue includes remastered 4K videos and several unheard songs
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Beyoncé released her second studio album, "B'Day," in September 2006, timing it to her 25th birthday. The record included hits such as "Irreplaceable" and "Déjà Vu," and has remained a significant entry in her back catalogue over the past two decades. To mark 20 years since its release, she has now put out an expanded deluxe edition featuring previously unreleased material.
The reissue brings in guest artists not on the original album, including Colombian singer Maluma and the late Tejano star Selena Quintanilla, whose vocals from archival recordings have been used with approval from her estate. Selena, who died in 1994, remains a major figure in Latin American and Tejano music, and Beyoncé has spoken of admiring her as a fellow Texan artist.
This kind of anniversary reissue is a common way for established musicians to revisit older work, offering remastered audio and video alongside songs that were previously left off the record or never released at all.
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Beyoncé has marked the 20th anniversary of her second studio album, B'Day, with the release of a remastered deluxe edition, arriving on 4 September, exactly two decades after the record's original 2006 release date and, as one outlet noted, on the singer's 45th birthday. The reissue expands the original tracklist substantially, bringing together remastered audio, previously issued bonus cuts, rare B-sides and a handful of songs never before heard by the public, including two new collaborations: one with Colombian artist Maluma and a posthumous pairing with the late Tejano star Selena Quintanilla.
The most notable additions are the two guest features. "Cuerpo (Tumbao)", a reworking of "Get Me Bodied" built around a sample of Celia Cruz's "La Negra Tiene Tumbao", marks Beyoncé's first-ever collaboration with Maluma; it was produced by Beyoncé alongside Edgar Barrera and CASTA, with Ali "Ali Ali" Alvarez credited as co-producer. Accompanying material describes Beyoncé's long-standing admiration for Cruz. The second major addition, "Irreemplazable (Como La Flor)", blends Beyoncé's Spanish-language rendition of "Irreplaceable" with vocals from Selena's "Como La Flor", using previously recorded material approved for release by the Quintanilla estate. Beyoncé has spoken of Selena, a fellow Texan, as a formative influence, recalling hearing her on Houston radio and crediting her as inspiration for the Spanish-language EP Beyoncé issued in 2007.
Beyond the headline duets, the deluxe edition digs into the archive for a run of tracks that either went unreleased at the time or were left off the finished album, among them "Lost Yo Mind", "Creole", "Back Up" and "Can I Watch You", the last produced with Pharrell. One report notes that "My First Time" actually predates B'Day altogether, having originally been recorded during sessions for Beyoncé's 2003 debut, Dangerously in Love. Also folded into the reissue is "Morning Dew (Donk)", which Beyoncé had already released in July as an early taste of the anniversary campaign, followed by a JAY-Z-featuring remix in August. Beyoncé also revisited the album's visuals, remastering and recolouring the videos in 4K and issuing a reworked version of the "Déjà Vu" film alongside the release. In comments accompanying the reissue, she reflected on wanting the original album to feel percussive and energetic, built on live instrumentation, and on her efforts at the time to preserve R&B's melodic and harmonic traditions even as hip-hop's influence grew.
The digital deluxe edition runs to 31 tracks in total, though the physical releases differ slightly in content. Beyoncé's official store is offering a four-LP set pressed on 180-gram blue vinyl, complete with a 60-page commemorative booklet and two double-sided art prints, alongside a simpler two-LP edition and a CD version. B'Day, when first released in 2006, went on to win Beyoncé the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album the following year.
Where outlets differ
One outlet frames the release as tied to Beyoncé's own 45th birthday falling on the album's anniversary date, while the other does not mention this personal milestone.
Only one source details the physical release formats (four-LP blue vinyl set, two-LP edition, CD) and provides the full 31-track digital tracklist.
Only one source mentions that B'Day won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and that 'My First Time' originated during the Dangerously in Love sessions in 2003.
Only one source includes Beyoncé's direct quotes about the album's original creative intent and musical philosophy, plus detail on the remastered, recoloured 4K videos and the reworked 'Déjà Vu' visual.
The two sources use slightly different song titles/spellings for the Maluma and Get Me Bodied tracks ('Cuerpo Tumbao (Get Me Bodied)' vs 'Cuerpo (Tumbao)').
More coverage
- Consequence — Beyoncé Celebrates 20 Years of B’Day with Expanded Deluxe Edition: Stream
- Rolling Stone — Beyoncé’s ‘B’Day’ 20th Anniversary Album Features Music With Selena, Maluma, and Celia Cruz