The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 will get a digital release on December 1st
Alicia Keys celebrates the 20th anniversary of her multi-platinum, Grammy-winning and chart-topping sophomore album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts with the digital release of The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 on Friday, December 1st.
Keys will celebrate the milestone with an intimate, once-in-a-lifetime anniversary concert performing the album from top to bottom, in its entirety, at New York’s Webster Hall on Friday, December 1st. Tickets for the event go on sale tomorrow (Fri, Nov 3rd). A portion of the price of each ticket will be donated to Keep A Child Alive.
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 featuring nine bonus tracks including “Golden Child,” a previously unreleased rarity from Alicia’s personal vault, available in 360RA and Dolby Atmos.
Four newly pressed music videos from the project –“Karma,” “You Don’t Know My Name,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and the live version of “Diary” (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! and Jermaine Paul) — go live on Alicia’s YouTube channel on Friday, November 3rd, followed Wednesday, November 8th with the premiere of a lyric video for the previously unreleased “Golden Child.”
Additionally, there will be a special pop-up at the Awake NY store on Orchard Street in New York on Friday, December 1st and Saturday, December 2nd. Alongside collaborative merch designed by Awake NY, there will be previously unseen memorabilia on display from the time of the album’s creation as well as one-of-a-kind artworks. More details will be announced soon.
Urban Outfitters celebrates the anniversary with an exclusive limited edition of The Diary of Alicia Keys on Champagne colored 12-inch vinyl and a bonus 7-inch vinyl single of “Streets of New York” (featuring Nas & Rakim), originally released on the European version of the album, and the previously unreleased “Streets of New York” (Instrumental). The packaging features a gatefold jacket, 7-inch bonus single in cardboard inner sleeve with beautifully printed inner sleeves.
In early 2024, Vinyl Me, Please will release a limited edition 3 LP Piano Key colored 12-inch vinyl pressing, The Diary of Alicia Keys (VMP 20th Anniversary Edition), featuring the original album plus bonus tracks including remixes, alternate takes and a live recording of the first-ever performance of the album’s cuts at Webster Hall upon its release. The VMP 20th anniversary edition record will also include a lyric and photo booklet featuring a handwritten letter from Alicia Keys, with one random purchaser receiving the original letter, all housed in a deluxe tri-fold linen-wrapped jacket and slipcase.
Keys also recently previewed her musical Hell’s Kitchen at The Public Theater in New York. Conceptualized by and featuring music written by Keys, and based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-finalist playwright Kristoffer Diaz, the exhilarating coming-of-age musical started previews on October 24th and officially opens on November 19th. The sold-out run has been extended through January 7, 2024. Hell’s Kitchen is an unforgettable new musical based on a 17-year-old girl’s experiences and life in the dark but promising neighborhood of the same name. Featuring both newly created music and many of her soulful, iconic songs, Hell’s Kitchen is not to be missed.
First released on December 2, 2003, on J Records, The Diary of Alicia Keys, the artist’s much-anticipated second album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the best first week’s sales for a female artist that year. A formidable successor to her blockbuster debut (2001’s multi-platinum Songs In A Minor entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 before winning Alicia an unprecedented five Grammy Awards including Best New Artist), The Diary of Alicia Keys became her second successive No. 1 album, generating three Top 10 singles — “You Don’t Know My Name,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “Diary” — while adding three new Grammy Awards–Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (“If I Ain’t Got You”) and Best R&B Song (“You Don’t Know My Name”)–to her career total. The album has sold more than five million copies in the United States and more than eight million worldwide.
1. Harlem’s Nocturne
2. Karma
3. Heartburn
4. If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By
5. You Don’t Know My Name
6. If I Ain’t Got You
7. Diary (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul)
8. Dragon Days
9. Wake Up
10. So Simple (featuring Lellow)
11. When You Really Love Someone
12. Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)
13. Slow Down
14. Samsonite Man
15. Nobody Not Really
16. If I Ain’t Got You (Orchestral Version) (featuring Queen Charlotte’s Global Orchestra) (from Netflix’s “Queen Charlotte”)
17. Golden Child
18. You Don’t Know My Name/Will You Ever Know It (Reggae Mix)
19. Diary (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné! & Jermaine Paul) (Hani Mixshow)
20. If I Ain’t Got You (Spanish Version) (featuring Queen Charlotte’s Global Orchestra (from Netflix’s “Queen Charlotte”)
21. Streets of New York (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – December 1, 2003)
22. If I Ain’t Got You (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – December 1, 2003)
23. Diary (featuring Jermaine Paul) (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – December 1, 2003)
24. You Don’t Know My Name (AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – December 1, 2003)
