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. The unveiling of Endless began with a live stream on Ocean’s official website, boysdontcry.co, on August 1, 2016. The broadcast, which alternated between live & offline over 19 days, featured Ocean diligently working on a construction project. This structure was later revealed to be a spiral staircase, described as a “stairway to heaven” by Endless-collaborator Tom Sachs. After more than a week of inactivity, the stream resurfaced on August 18, just an hour before midnight EST. Ocean finished constructing the stairway and was shown ascending its steps; as he reached the top, the stream abruptly glitched and cut to black. Shortly afterward, on August 19, 2016, the film was released on Apple Music. 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, made available for purchase on Ocean’s website, blonded.co (formerly boysdontcry.co, where Endless originally streamed in August 2016). The limited reissue included a DVD & VHS release of the visual album, as well as remastered, 19-track CD & LP audio-only edition with “new improved full-dimensional stereo.” 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. The DVD/VHS reissue is 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”) & “Mitsu-Sony,” while the songs Ambience 001: “In a Certain Way” & Ambience 002: “Honeybaby” are absent from the list. The CD/LP audio-only reissue omits 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.