Stevie Wonder marks 50 years of Songs in the Key of Life with surprise EP
Stevie Wonder has released four never-before-heard songs, 50 years to the day after his album Songs in the Key of Life first arrived.
The surprise collection is titled Songs in the Key of Life 50: The EP. It appeared on streaming services on 28 September 2026 and contains four previously unreleased studio recordings, according to Rolling Stone.
The four songs are "It's Easier," "My Life Story of Love," "I Can See the Sun in Late December" and "I'm Into Livin'." All four were recorded during the sessions for the 1976 album. Mixing for the new EP was handled by John Fischbach and Gary O. Adante.
An EP, a release longer than a single but shorter than a full album, was a deliberate echo here. The timing was precise too. The new songs landed on streaming services at 4:54 a.m. PDT, the reported time the original album sessions wrapped.
The original Songs in the Key of Life was released on 28 September 1976. It was Wonder's 18th studio LP, industry shorthand for a full-length album, and it arrived as a double-album, two records sold together, with a four-track bonus EP titled A Something's Extra.
That structure is now mirrored. Fifty years on, another four-song companion follows a landmark double record. Rolling Stone has placed the original album at Number Four on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
The release is tied to live plans. Wonder is planning a tour commemorating the 50th anniversary of the album, with an 18-date run set for the anniversary, according to Billboard.
For listeners, this means two ways into the anniversary. The new EP offers studio material that has stayed unheard since the mid-1970s. The tour offers the full album played in order in rooms across the run.
No further archive releases tied to the anniversary have been confirmed. For now, the four songs stand on their own, five decades after the sessions that produced them.
