The late artist's estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution's Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release.

Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides - four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes or unreleased Vault material.) Original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman has overseen the remastering along with engineer Chris James. Additional formats include the remastered album on standalone CD and black vinyl (with the CD featuring the 12" extension of "America" as a bonus track, being present separately from the bonus disc on the deluxe version as well), picture disc and blue marble vinyl variants and a streaming-only Dolby Atmos mix.

An eternally hard-to-pin-down artist, Prince was already at work on the album when Purple Rain hit theaters and record store shelves, and the LP arrived less than a month after he'd finished touring that record. "I didn't wait to see what would happen with Purple Rain," he told Rolling Stone. "That's why the albums sound so different." (He'd call it "the smartest thing" he did in that same interview.) Influenced by the psychedelia of the West Coast-based Paisley Underground movement (but not, he was clear in one of his only period interviews, The Beatles), Around the World mixes Middle Eastern orchestration with pure pop melodies and guitar bravado.

Due credit to the Prince estate: they made good on one of their promises. The late artist's estate will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Prince and The Revolution's Around the World in a Day with a deluxe edition gathering all the non-LP material from the original release.

Available November 21 in a variety of formats including 2CD and 140-gram 3LP editions, the set will feature the 1985 follow-up to Purple Rain, along with 13 non-LP remixes and B-sides - four of which will make their debut on CD. (The set includes no outtakes or unreleased Vault material.) Original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman has overseen the remastering along with engineer Chris James. Additional formats include the remastered album on standalone CD and black vinyl (with the CD featuring the 12" extension of "America" as a bonus track, being present separately from the bonus disc on the deluxe version as well), picture disc and blue marble vinyl variants and a streaming-only Dolby Atmos mix.

An eternally hard-to-pin-down artist, Prince was already at work on the album when Purple Rain hit theaters and record store shelves, and the LP arrived less than a month after he'd finished touring that record. "I didn't wait to see what would happen with Purple Rain," he told Rolling Stone. "That's why the albums sound so different." (He'd call it "the smartest thing" he did in that same interview.) Influenced by the psychedelia of the West Coast-based Paisley Underground movement (but not, he was clear in one of his only period interviews, The Beatles), Around the World mixes Middle Eastern orchestration with pure pop melodies and guitar bravado. Here, Prince's lyrical focus is all over, from sexy thrills ("Raspberry Beret," "Tamborine") to weary broadsides against the music industry ("Pop Life"), the promise and reality of modern life ("Paisley Park," "America") and the desire for spiritual salvation ("The Ladder," "Temptation"). "Paisley Park" - one of the author's favorite Prince tracks - would become something of a mantra for The Artist: he'd release the album through Warner Bros.' newly-established imprint of the same name - where he'd sign a fistful of artists over the next decade - and build a recording complex in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen under that name as well.



Though Prince requested that Warner wait a month before releasing any single from the album, they ultimately pulled four of the album's nine tracks for release: the U.S. Top 10s "Raspberry Beret" and "Pop Life" and two region-specific releases: the U.K.-only "Paisley Park" and the U.S.-exclusive "America." Between them, they were backed by some of his strongest B-sides, including the fiery, romantic "She's Always in My Hair," the slinky "Girl" and "Hello," Prince's side of skipping the recording session for USA for Africa's "We Are the World." (He'd give the USA for Africa album project the track "4 the Tears in Your Eyes," broadcasting an alternate performance of the song in a video that aired during Live Aid.) There were also unique U.K. remixes of "Pop Life" and "Paisley Park," as well as a 12" version of "America" that provided the unedited take of the track before the tape literally ran out. While many of these were released on compilations in Prince's lifetime, like The Hits/The B-Sides and Ultimate, four tracks make their CD debuts: the extended "America" (released as a digital single this summer), extensions of "Hello" and "Girl" and the original We Are the World album version of "4 the Tears in Your Eyes." (The harder-to-find U.K. remixes were included on a Japanese-exclusive CD pressing of His Majesty's Pop Life: The Purple Mix Club, a double 12" promo of remixes released in that country back in 1985.)


Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Edition) (NPG/Legacy, 2025)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP (black): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP (blue marble): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Picture Disc: Official Store

* previously unreleased on CD

CD/LP 1: 2025 remaster of original album (released as Paisley Park 25286, 1985) and bonus track

1. Around the World in a Day
2. Paisley Park
3. Condition of the Heart
4. Raspberry Beret
5. Tamborine
6. America
7. Pop Life
8. The Ladder
9. Temptation
10. America (12" Version) (12" A-side - Paisley Park 0-20389, 1985) *

CD/LP 2-3: Bonus material (2025 remaster)

1. Raspberry Beret (New Mix)
2. She's Always in My Hair
3. She's Always in My Hair (New Mix)
4. Paisley Park (Remix)
5. Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)
6. Pop Life (Extended Version)
7. Hello
8. Hello (Fresh Dance Mix) *
9. Girl
10. Girl (12" Version) *
11. 4 the Tears in Your Eyes *
12. 4 the Tears in Your Eyes (Video Version)

Tracks 1 and 3 released as Paisley Park 12" 0-20355, 1985
Track 2 released on "Raspberry Beret" single - Paisley Park 7-28972, 1985
Track 4 released on Paisley Park U.K. 12" W9052T, 1985
Tracks 5 and 8 released as Paisley Park 12" 0-20357, 1985
Tracks 6 and 10 released on Paisley Park U.K. 12" W8858T, 1985
Track 7 released on "Pop Life" single - Paisley Park 7-28998, 1985
Track 9 released on "Pop Life" U.K. single - Paisley Park W8858, 1985
Track 11 released on We Are the World - Columbia USA 40043, 1985
Track 12 broadcast during Live Aid on July 13, 1985. Released on The Hits/The B-Sides - Paisley Park/Warner Bros. 25520, 1993