Prince’s “3121” is returning in an expanded edition marking 20 years since its original release. Due December 11, 2026, the set adds ten recordings to the album’s 12 songs, combining rare and unreleased material with alternate versions. Physical editions include a complete 2007 Las Vegas concert on Blu-ray, while that performance also receives a separate live-album release and a limited North American cinema presentation.
Prince’s archive is returning to the “3121” period with an edition bringing together the studio album, additional recordings and a complete Las Vegas performance. NPG Records and The Prince Estate have announced the release for December 11. It will be available digitally and in physical three-LP-plus-Blu-ray and two-CD-plus-Blu-ray editions, giving the studio and concert material a combined presentation.
Originally released on March 21, 2006, “3121” became the musician’s first album to debut at number one on the US albums chart and his fourth overall chart-topper. “Black Sweat”, “Te Amo Corazón”, “Fury” and “Beautiful, Loved and Blessed” were among its songs, mixing funk, soul, rock and pop after the renewed recording momentum of “Musicology”.
The expanded version preserves the original 12-track sequence before adding another group of recordings. The extras include “Time of Ur Life”, “The Streets of Panama”, “Another Girl”, “Elixer”, “Glass Cutter”, “U’re Such A Tease” and “Girls In the Band”. They are joined by acoustic versions of “The Word”, “Love” and “Te Amo Corazón”, completing the ten additions.
Those tracks do not represent ten entirely unknown compositions. Previously unreleased recordings appear alongside alternate versions and material with an earlier history of availability or performance. The distinction gives a more accurate picture of the contents: an expanded archive view of the period, rather than a newly announced studio album made entirely from songs nobody had encountered before.
“Time of Ur Life” has already been presented as the first preview, allowing listeners to hear an addition before the December release. The acoustic selections offer another kind of return to Prince’s music from the album. They place familiar melodies and vocal performances outside the arrangements through which listeners first knew them in 2006.
The central concert addition comes from “Per4ming Live @ 3121 Las Vegas”. Filmed on January 20, 2007, during the musician’s stay at the Rio Hotel & Casino, the performance lasts 154 minutes. It draws on different parts of his catalogue, documenting a full show rather than supplying only a small collection of clips between the studio extras.
The Blu-ray also contains the official videos for “Fury”, “Te Amo Corazón” and “Black Sweat”. That combination joins a concert document to promotional films from the studio release. The physical edition therefore offers different ways of looking back at the period, while the expanded audio programme keeps the original album and additional recordings together.
Prince’s concert repertoire includes “Purple Rain”, “Kiss”, “If I Was Your Girlfriend”, “U Got the Look” and “Cream”, alongside “3121”, “Lolita”, “Satisfied” and “Get On the Boat”. Covers include “Pass the Peas”, “Crazy” and “Play That Funky Music”. The programme mixes then-recent material, older songs and other performers’ music within the same extended appearance.
The selection records how the musician moved between different sounds and recording periods onstage. New album tracks did not exclude familiar songs, and the covers gave the performance another point of departure. Hearing that sequence alongside the studio release shows how the “3121” material entered a larger live catalogue rather than remaining confined to its original album setting.
The concert will also be issued independently as “3121 Las Vegas Live” on November 27 for Record Store Day Black Friday. Announced formats are a Crystal Blue triple vinyl and a double CD. This is a separate live album, allowing listeners interested principally in the performance to obtain it without the studio album and its additional archive recordings.
Before the expanded edition arrives, “Prince: 3121 Las Vegas Concert” will begin limited screenings at selected US and Canadian cinemas on December 3. Tickets are scheduled to become available on November 11. No equivalent European screening programme has been announced, so those North American dates should not be interpreted as confirmation of showings in Greece or elsewhere in Europe.
The title “3121” was associated with a Los Angeles residence used for gatherings and recording, later extending into the musician’s Las Vegas concert activity. In 2006, Prince combined new material with television appearances and performances drawing widely from his catalogue. The filmed January 2007 concert captures that period shortly before his celebrated Super Bowl appearance.
The anniversary programme thus follows several distinct dates. The standalone concert audio arrives November 27, selected cinema screenings begin December 3, and the expanded studio set follows December 11. Together, they revisit Prince through the making and release of “3121” and the way its songs sat among older material during a complete Las Vegas performance. The studio extras and the concert serve different purposes within that return. One broadens the listener’s view of the recordings surrounding the album; the other documents how the performer assembled a night of music from across his career. Keeping the separate formats and dates clear allows audiences to distinguish an expanded studio collection from a standalone live release and a screening of the complete filmed Las Vegas performance.
