Beyonce marked her birthday this year by resurrecting the album critics once considered her riskiest: on September 4, 2026, Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records released a full 20th-anniversary deluxe edition of “B’Day,” complete with 4K-restored music videos and new duets pairing her with Maluma and the late Selena Quintanilla.

Key Points

• The reissue dropped September 4, 2026, exactly 20 years after the original and on Beyonce’s own birthday, per Parkwood and Columbia’s own press release.
• New tracks include “Can I Watch You,” a Prince-inspired collaboration with Pharrell Williams, and two Spanish-language reworkings: “Cuerpo (Tumbao)” with Maluma and “Irreemplazable (Como La Flor),” which splices “Irreplaceable” with Selena’s vocals from “Como La Flor,” according to SoulBounce’s track-by-track rundown.
• The set restores studio versions of previously bootlegged-only cuts like “Creole,” “Lost Yo Mind” and “Back Up.”
• The original “B’Day” debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in September 2006, selling roughly 541,000 copies in its first week, per chart data compiled on the album’s Wikipedia entry.

The original 2006 album was, at the time, a strange gamble. Beyonce built it with a rotating cast of producers, including Rodney Jerkins, Rich Harrison, Sean Garrett and a then-rising duo called The Neptunes, according to the album’s own production credits. It produced “Irreplaceable,” a ten-week #1 hit, and “Deja Vu” with Jay-Z, but critics at the time were split — Metacritic logged it at a modest 70, with some reviewers calling individual tracks “harmonically undercooked.”

“Ring the Alarm” and “Beautiful Liar,” her duet with Shakira, rounded out the original singles run, each reaching the US top tier, while “Get Me Bodied” and “Green Light” landed more modestly on first release, per that same chart record. That gap between a song’s debut performance and its long-term staying power is part of why the label is treating the full record as worth restoring, rather than just repackaging the two or three songs radio remembers.

Variety confirmed the anniversary edition’s Spanish-language pivot is the real surprise, since Beyonce has rarely recorded in Spanish outside one-off collaborations. Pairing “Get Me Bodied” with salsa instrumentation for Maluma, and blending “Irreplaceable” with a deceased icon’s archival vocals for a Selena tribute, are choices with no direct precedent in her catalog.

The mixed 2006 reviews haven’t aged especially well against that track record. Two decades of steady radio play turned a transitional, underrated record into one Beyonce’s own label now treats as canon worth restoring in 4K, archival Selena vocals and all.