Endless is a visual album by Frank Ocean released on August 19, 2016, shortly followed by his long-awaited second studio album Blonde. The project fulfilled Ocean’s record deal with label Def Jam Recordings, allowing him to release Blonde under his own label, Boys Don’t Cry, a day after Endless. Endless originally began as a live stream on Frank’s official website, boysdontcry.co on August 1, 2016. The live stream, which alternated from live to offline over 19 days, featured a focused Frank Ocean who appeared to be constructing something. This was later revealed to be a spiral staircase which artist Tom Sachs, who helped facilitate the project, refers to as the “Stairway to Heaven.” After more than a week of inactivity, the stream resurfaced an hour before midnight EST on August 19, 2016. Ocean completed the construction of the stairway, eventually climbing the staircase; as he reached the top, the stream glitched & cut to black. The short film was released on Apple Music shortly thereafter. Alongside Def Jam Recordings, Ocean published Endless under his label Fresh Produce solely for the release of the visual album, fulfilling his album contract with Def Jam while maintaining ownership of his label. In 2017, Ocean renamed Fresh Produce to blonded. On Cyber Monday, November 27, 2017, blonded reissued Endless in physical audio & visual formats with “new improved full-dimensional stereo,” made available for purchase on Ocean’s website, blonded.co (formerly boysdontcry.co, where Endless originally streamed in August 2016). The limited, remastered reissues included DVD & VHS releases and an audio-only, 19-track CD & LP release of the visual album. The sale also included two double-sided, 24" × 36" Endless-themed posters, sold separately. The Cyber Monday releases mirrored the sale of Blonde physicals the year prior on Black Friday, November 25, 2016. After a slight delay in shipping of physicals copies of Endless, shipments for the VHS commenced in February 2018, followed by the CD+DVD & LP in April 2018. Aside from an updated audio mix, the DVD & VHS reissues are nearly identical to the original Apple Music release; however, the title sequence displayed at the film’s end is altered, with notable differences in the album’s track listings & credits. The DVD/VHS tracklist reveals the previously unlisted tracks “Xenons,” “Walk Away” (otherwise known as the last 19 seconds of “Hublots”), and “Mitsu-Sony,” while the songs “Ambience 001: ‘In a Certain Way’” & “Ambience 002: ‘Honeybaby’” are absent from the list. The CD & LP audio-only reissues omit Wolfgang Tillmans’ opening performance of “Device Control” and its closing reprise. Additionally, some of the remastered tracks contain minor differences from their appearance in the music video; the outro of “Comme des Garçons” features vocals from Rita Zebdi, Ocean’s wardrobe stylist for the visual album, and the closing instrumental section of “Mitsubishi Sony” extends for 1:05 longer on the CD & LP than in the film. Altogether, the 45:52 visual album is abridged to 38:27 for the audio-only releases.