Ten unreleased Prince recordings, one for nearly every stretch of his career from 1977 to 2016, are arriving on August 28. The album is called Timeless, and it’s the first collection the Prince Estate and Sony’s Legacy Recordings have ever built to reach across every major era of his catalog, according to the official announcement.

Key Points

• Timeless collects 10 previously unreleased Prince recordings spanning four decades, out August 28 through the Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, per the official press release.
• It ships as a D2C-exclusive purple marble vinyl, a standard black vinyl pressing, and CD, according to the same release.
• The lead single, “Stone,” a 1995 recording written with Sandra St. Victor, Tom Hammer, and Jules Van Even, is already streaming, per Relix.
• The rollout is tied to Celebration 2026 at Paisley Park, the tenth-anniversary tribute marking Prince’s death, Relix reports.

The tracklist reads like a timeline. “I Am You” dates to 1977, “Tick Tick Bang” to 1981, “Heaven” to 1985, and “I Wonder” to 1989, moving through “With This Tear” (1991), “Stone” (1995), “Calabama” (2003), “The Guilty Ones” (2007), and “Bestest Friend” (2012), before closing on a live 2016 recording of “How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore?” according to the official tracklist. “With This Tear,” a piano ballad originally demoed for another artist, actually surfaced first, back in April, timed to the tenth anniversary of Prince’s death, Relix notes.

The black vinyl edition splits the track list five songs per side, while the purple marble pressing is sold direct through the estate’s own store, per the release. You get the full 10 tracks either way; the packaging is the only thing that changes.

In its own statement on the project, the Prince Estate said the compilation traces “Prince’s remarkable artistic evolution,” calling it proof of “the extraordinary consistency, curiosity and creative ambition that defined his work throughout his life,” WFTV reported. Relix’s coverage frames it differently but similarly: the estate describes Timeless as part of Prince’s “lifelong project of looking forward,” built from recordings he set aside himself at key points in his career rather than material that simply never got finished, per Relix.

Prince famously worked faster than any label could release, banking finished songs at Paisley Park for years, sometimes decades, before anyone outside his circle heard them. Timeless isn’t a leftovers record so much as a guided tour of what he chose to hold back, one era at a time. Vault albums used to feel like an afterthought in an artist’s catalog. For Prince, they’re starting to look like the main event.