Beyoncé marks her birthday with a 20th-anniversary "B'Day"

Beyoncé marked both her 45th birthday and the 20th anniversary of "B'Day" on Sept. 4 by releasing a remastered deluxe edition of the 2006 album, adding previously unreleased tracks, remastered visuals and new Spanish-language recordings, including a posthumous duet built around Selena's voice.

The original "B'Day" was recorded in roughly two weeks in 2006 and released on Beyoncé's 25th birthday, a project she has described as the record where she first took full creative control as singer, songwriter and producer. The reissue, distributed through Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, expands the album to 31 tracks on its digital deluxe version and arrives alongside remastered, re-colored 4K versions of videos originally shot on 35mm film, including "Déjà Vu," featuring Jay-Z and directed by Sophie Muller.

New collaborations, and one from beyond

Among the additions is "Irreemplazable (Como La Flor)," a Spanish-language duet built around vocals from Selena Quintanilla, the Tejano star killed in 1995. Beyoncé's team said the estate of the singer approved the use of her voice on new material for the first time since the mid-1990s, pairing it with Beyoncé's own 2006 hit "Irreplaceable." The reissue also includes "Cuerpo Tumbao (Get Me Bodied)," a collaboration with the Colombian singer Maluma that samples Celia Cruz's "La Negra Tiene Tumbao," and "Amor Gitano," a version of the song with Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández.

Other previously unheard material includes "Morning Dew (Donk)," B-sides titled "Lost Yo Mind," "Creole" and "Back Up," and "Can I Watch You," a track featuring Pharrell Williams. In a statement accompanying the release, Beyoncé said she had wanted the original album to be "big, percussive, hard, up-tempo," built around live instrumentation and horn sections while still "fighting to preserve bridges, melodies and harmonies" in an era increasingly defined by sample-based hip-hop production.

The reissue is being sold across several formats, including a four-LP deluxe vinyl edition pressed on "Bayou Blue" colored vinyl with a 60-page booklet and two collectible art prints, priced at $150, alongside a more conventional two-LP standard vinyl pressing and deluxe CD and digital versions.

Part of a broader victory lap

The "B'Day" reissue continues a run of catalog revisits and archival releases that Beyoncé has undertaken in recent years, following the visual and audio remasters that accompanied anniversary editions of earlier albums. It also lands during a comparatively quiet stretch between her "Cowboy Carter" era, whose stadium tour concluded last summer, and whatever full-length project follows it, giving fans and completists a reason to revisit her back catalog rather than wait on new music.

For longtime listeners, the reissue also serves as an occasion to revisit an album that sits between two more heavily discussed eras of her catalog: the introductory run of "Dangerously in Love" and the pop-facing double album "I Am... Sasha Fierce" that followed two years later. By adding unreleased tracks, new collaborators and remastered visuals rather than simply reissuing the original tracklist on vinyl, the release is positioned less as a nostalgia product and more as a fuller, updated version of the record itself.