Prince’s Estate has released Timeless, a 10-track collection spanning recordings from 1977 to 2016, alongside the official video for the previously unreleased 2007 track The Guilty Ones.
by Paul Cashmere
Prince’s posthumous catalogue has expanded with Timeless, a 10-track collection of rare and previously unreleased recordings drawn from his Vault, released August 28, 2026 through The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings. The album spans recordings made between 1977 and 2016, while The Guilty Ones, recorded at Paisley Park in 2007, has been issued as an official video from the collection.
Timeless has been assembled as a chronological journey through almost four decades of Prince’s recording career. The sequence begins with I Am You from 1977 and moves through Tick Tick Bang from 1981, Heaven from 1985, I Wonder from 1989 and With This Tear from 1991 before reaching recordings from 1995, 2003, 2007 and 2012. The final track is a live performance from 2016, recorded during Prince’s final concert tour.
The Estate describes Timeless as the first Prince release curated to cover every major era of his career. The project therefore functions differently from releases focused on a particular album period or recording session. Its central premise is the breadth of material Prince left behind, with the ten selections providing a timeline from his earliest studio work through to one of his final performances.
The album is available digitally and on CD, black vinyl and a limited-edition purple marble vinyl pressing. The official Prince store confirms that the physical editions contain the same 10-track sequence.
The Guilty Ones is one of the previously unreleased recordings at the centre of Timeless. Prince recorded the song at Paisley Park on October 26, 2007, with Ian Boxill involved in the recording. Marva King and Shelby J. provide additional vocals, while Josh Dunham plays bass and Cora Coleman-Dunham plays drums.
Prince is credited with producing, arranging, composing and performing the recording. The new video gives the 2007 track a visual presence more than 18 years after it was recorded, extending the presentation of the Vault material beyond the audio release.
The song also places Timeless firmly within the period surrounding Prince’s mid-to-late 2000s work. In 2007, Prince was operating at an unusually high level of live activity, including his historic 21-night run at London’s O2 Arena. His official discography records that period as one in which members of his touring ensemble included Coleman-Dunham, Dunham, Shelby J. and Marva King, the same musicians represented on The Guilty Ones.
The collection had already been previewed with With This Tear, released in April 2026. Recorded at Paisley Park in November 1991, the song was written, produced and arranged by Prince, who also performed every instrument. He subsequently offered the composition to Celine Dion, who recorded her own version in 1992. The Estate said the recording was newly mixed and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer and producer Chris James, a former Prince engineer.
Timeless also includes Stone, a previously unreleased recording from 1995 written by Sandra St. Victor, Tom Hammer and Jules Van Even. Calabama from 2003 and Bestest Friend from 2012 extend the timeline into the later stages of Prince’s career.
The album closes with How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Live), recorded at Oakland’s Oracle Arena on March 4, 2016, during the Piano & A Microphone Tour. The performance provides a direct connection between the previously unheard studio recordings and the live performer audiences were still seeing shortly before his death.
That chronology is significant to the project. Rather than concentrating on one particular creative period, Timeless places early experiments, 1980s recordings, 1990s material, 2000s sessions, 2010s recordings and a final live performance within the same framework.
Prince died on April 21, 2016, aged 57. His Vault has subsequently become an important source for posthumous releases, with the Estate and its partners continuing to work through recordings made across his career.
The broader catalogue strategy has also developed through an ongoing relationship between The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings. Sony Music Entertainment and Legacy announced an expanded distribution agreement with the Estate in 2018, covering major Prince albums and additional recordings, including singles, B-sides, remixes, live recordings and music videos.
Timeless arrives during the 10th anniversary year of Prince’s death, giving the release an unusually broad historical frame. Its contents do not represent a newly recorded Prince album, but recordings preserved from different stages of his working life and subsequently selected, prepared and mastered for release.
For listeners, The Guilty Ones provides one of the clearest examples of what the project offers: a Prince recording made during an identifiable period of his career, featuring musicians from his working circle, now presented publicly for the first time as part of a career-spanning collection.
The album is now available on streaming services, CD and vinyl, with the official video for The Guilty Ones providing the latest visual chapter in the release of material from Prince’s Vault.
Tracklisting
Timeless (Digital & CD)
I Am You – 1977
Tick Tick Bang – 1981
Heaven – 1985
I Wonder – 1989
With This Tear – 1991
Stone – 1995
Calabama – 2003
The Guilty Ones – 2007
Bestest Friend – 2012
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Live) – 2016
Timeless (1LP)
Side A
I Am You
Tick Tick Bang
Heaven
I Wonder
With This Tear
Side B
Stone
Calabama
The Guilty Ones
Bestest Friend
How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Live)
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