Beyoncé celebrated her 45th birthday by returning to the album that helped define the beginning of her solo superstardom, releasing an expansive 20th anniversary edition of B’Day with remastered music, previously unreleased recordings, B-sides and new collaborations with Maluma and the late Selena Quintanilla.

The 31-track digital deluxe edition arrived as B’Day marked two decades since its original release on Sept. 4, 2006—the same date as Beyoncé’s birthday.

Rather than simply remastering the original album, Beyoncé substantially expanded the project, opening her archives for recordings that span different stages of her early solo career while also revisiting the Spanish-language material that followed B’Day.

The result places familiar records including “Déjà Vu,” “Get Me Bodied,” “Ring the Alarm,” “Upgrade U,” “Freakum Dress” and “Irreplaceable” alongside material that most listeners have never had together on a single official Beyoncé release.

Beyoncé Opens the Vault

Among the biggest additions is “Can I Watch You,” a previously unreleased collaboration with Pharrell Williams.

The song was produced by Beyoncé and Pharrell and now appears as the 17th track on the digital anniversary edition.

Another archival recording, “My First Time,” goes even further back in Beyoncé’s solo career. The song was originally recorded for her 2003 debut album, Dangerously in Love, but ultimately did not make the final tracklist. Twenty-three years later, Beyoncé has officially brought it out of the vault as part of the B’Day anniversary project.

The collection also incorporates “Lost Yo Mind,” “Creole” and “Back Up,” B-sides that were not included on the original B’Day album, alongside the extended version of “Get Me Bodied” and previously released Spanish-language material.

“Morning Dew (Donk),” another addition to the anniversary campaign, also appears on the project.

Taken together, the material transforms B’Day from a conventional anniversary reissue into something closer to an archive of Beyoncé’s creative period surrounding the album.

Maluma and Selena Join the Expanded Album

Two of the most notable additions are exclusive to the 31-track digital deluxe edition.

“Cuerpo (Tumbao)” features Colombian superstar Maluma and draws from Celia Cruz’s “La Negra Tiene Tumbao.” The track was produced by Beyoncé, Edgar Barrera and CASTA, with Ali “Ali Ali” Alvarez serving as co-producer.

But perhaps the most striking collaboration is “Irreemplazable (Como La Flor),” which brings Beyoncé together with the late Selena Quintanilla.

The recording incorporates Selena’s vocals with Beyoncé’s Spanish-language version of “Irreplaceable.” According to the official release announcement, Selena’s estate authorized the use of her music for the collaboration—something the estate has rarely permitted since the Tejano icon’s death in 1995.

The pairing carries particular significance because both artists have deep Texas roots.

Beyoncé grew up in Houston and has previously spoken about hearing Selena's music during her childhood. She has also credited Selena as an inspiration behind her decision to record the Spanish-language Irreemplazable EP released in 2007.

The anniversary edition now connects those two chapters directly.

‘B’Day’ Turns 20

Beyoncé originally released B’Day on Sept. 4, 2006, when she turned 25.

The album arrived three years after Dangerously in Love established her as a solo force outside Destiny’s Child and represented another step toward Beyoncé taking greater control over her sound and creative direction.

Much of B’Day was created during an unusually concentrated recording period. Beyoncé has recalled wanting the project to sound big, aggressive and heavily percussive while preserving the melodies, harmonies and live instrumentation associated with R&B as hip-hop became increasingly dominant.

That urgency became one of the album’s defining characteristics.

Records including “Ring the Alarm,” “Get Me Bodied,” “Upgrade U” and “Freakum Dress” carried a harder rhythmic energy, while “Irreplaceable” became one of the defining pop and R&B records of Beyoncé’s early solo career.

The album also produced “Déjà Vu” with Jay-Z and eventually expanded to include the Shakira collaboration “Beautiful Liar,” which is included again on the anniversary edition.

Twenty years later, Beyoncé is presenting that period not merely as nostalgia, but as an expanded chapter of her catalog.

Four-LP ‘Bayou Blue’ Edition

The anniversary campaign extends well beyond streaming.

Beyoncé is offering a deluxe four-LP edition pressed on 180-gram “Bayou Blue” vinyl. The $149.98 package includes 27 tracks, a 60-page commemorative booklet and two collectible double-sided art prints.

The physical deluxe includes “Can I Watch You,” “My First Time,” “Lost Yo Mind,” “Creole,” “Back Up,” Spanish recordings and other material from the expanded project.

The Maluma-assisted “Cuerpo (Tumbao)” and Selena collaboration “Irreemplazable (Como La Flor)” are exclusive additions to the 31-track digital deluxe rather than the four-LP tracklist.

A less expensive standard anniversary vinyl edition is also available as a limited 180-gram two-LP pressing. Beyoncé’s official store lists that version at $44.98 and says it includes “Morning Dew (Donk)” and a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen imagery.

A CD edition is being offered as well.

The deluxe vinyl presentation, however, makes clear that Beyoncé is treating B’Day as more than another catalog anniversary.

At 45, she is revisiting an album she released at 25, restoring material that never made the original project and adding collaborations that could only exist two decades later.

For fans who have lived with B’Day since 2006, the anniversary edition offers something beyond a remaster: a substantially larger look at the music and ideas surrounding one of the most consequential periods of Beyoncé’s early solo career.