

Tiller called Anniversary the "first wave", stating that he has a lot of new music coming, hinting at his previously-announced album, Serenity. He proceeded to work on ideas that he started five years before when making Trapsoul. During the session, Tiller said the album was created after "digging through the Trapsoul archives" during a 2020 trip to Los Angeles. It was also revealed that the album would include a feature from Canadian rapper Drake. Two days before the album's release, he held a special Zoom listening session with fans, during which he played the entire project for the first time. He officially announced the album and its title on September 28, posting a short trailer on Twitter. On September 25, a "deluxe" edition of Trapsoul was released, in preparation for Anniversary, featuring two songs that were previously released on SoundCloud during the Trapsoul era, as well as The Weeknd's remix of Trapsoul cut "Rambo" (titled "Rambo: Last Blood"). The visual ends with the message: "New album this fall". Tiller first teased a new album in the video for the album's lead single "Inhale", released on September 3, 2020.

The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 57,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. The album includes a sole guest appearance from Drake in the standard edition and a guest appearance from Big Sean in the deluxe edition, released on February 26, 2021. It was released by RCA Records on October 2, 2020, the fifth anniversary of Tiller's debut studio album, Trapsoul. Anniversary (stylized as A N N I V E R S A R Y) is the third studio album by American singer Bryson Tiller.
