Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has reopened one of her defining albums with a 31-track Beyoncé 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of B'Day, released on Spotify on Sept. 3 and anchored by a new song called "Can I Watch You" featuring Pharrell Williams. The timing lands one day before her birthday on Sept. 4, turning the anniversary release into a birthday-week moment as well as a catalog reset.
That matters because B'Day was a 13-track album when it first arrived in 2006, and this new version more than doubles that count with extra material that fans have not been able to hear in one place before. The set adds previously unreleased tunes including "Creole," "Lost Yo Mind," "My First Time," and "Back Up," while also folding in Spanish versions of "Get Me Bodied" as "Mueve el Cuerpo" and "Listen" as "Oye."
The anniversary package follows a rollout that began with a deluxe B'Day vinyl and a 60-page collectible booklet, then widened when Beyoncé first teased the project by officially releasing "Morning Dew (Donk)" on July 4. A remix pack followed on Aug. 4 with Jay-Z on the mix, setting up a release campaign that steadily moved older material back into view before the full reissue arrived.
Not every track on the new edition lands as a fresh surprise. Several of the songs were already familiar through leaks, special releases, or international editions, which makes the promise of unreleased material less clean than the label suggests. Even so, the inclusion of "Can I Watch You" gives the project a genuinely new center of gravity, especially because the song had stayed largely unheard until now.
B'Day was originally released on Sept. 4, 2006 through Columbia Records, Music World Entertainment, and Sony Urban Music, and it produced six singles, including "Déjà Vu," "Irreplaceable," "Get Me Bodied," "Green Light," and "Ring the Alarm." "Irreplaceable" went on to become Beyoncé's fourth Billboard Hot 100 number-one, which is part of why the album still carries enough weight to justify a 20-year revisit.
The new edition does not just pad out an old record. It expands the original into a fuller archive, answers some longtime curiosity around the missing tracks, and leaves one practical question hanging over the project: why "Can I Watch You" sat out of circulation for so long while the rest of the anniversary rollout was being prepared.
