New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony
Music Entertainment, is launching its first round of
Prince catalog digital releases. The first wave of
Prince catalog titles to be released through an exclusive agreement struck in June between SME and The
Prince Estate focuses on 1995-2010, a crucial epoch in
Prince history. 23 highly-collectible
Prince catalog titles (many of them hard-to-find or out-of-print) and
Prince Anthology: 1995-2010 (a newly-curated anthology of 37 essential tracks from the era) are now available across all major streaming services and digital service providers.
Listen to/buy
Prince Anthology: 1995-2010 here:
https://Prince.lnk.to/anthology.
Many of these albums, long sought-after by fans and collectors, are available for the first time for streaming and download, adding more than 300 essential
Prince songs to the artist's online in-print catalog.
For Prince, 1995-2010 was an unprecedented period of sustained and prolific creativity. Releasing fresh recordings at a rapid-fire pace through a variety of distribution strategies including his own online NPG
Music Club,
Prince was making some of the most provocative, experimental and soulful music of his career. Freed from major label demands and expectations,
Prince was able to write, record and release his own music on his own terms.
Assembled and curated under the auspices of The
Prince Estate,
Prince Anthology: 1995-2010 brings together 37 key recordings from the era. Opening with the title track from Emancipation ("This is my most important record," said
Prince when the album was released in 1996) and closing with the anthemic "We March" (from 1995's The Gold Experience), this new compilation provides a coherent musical chronicle of Prince's artistic and spiritual evolution through the late 20th and early 21st centuries in songs that continue to resonant in the culture.
Prince Anthology: 1995- 2010 draws spotlight tracks from The Gold Experience, Emancipation,
Chaos and Disorder, Crystal Ball, The Truth, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic, The
Rainbow Children, One Nite Alone..., C-Note, N.E.W.S., Xpectation, Musicology (includes 2005 Best Male R&B Performance Grammy winner "
Call My Name"), The Slaughterhouse, The Chocolate Invasion, 3121 (the first
Prince album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200), Planet Earth, LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and 20Ten.
Prince catalog titles newly available digitally via SME/Legacy are:
1. The Gold
Experience (1995) ("The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" greyed out, partial album streaming only; album unavailable for download)
2.
Chaos and Disorder (1996)
3. Emancipation (1996)
4. Crystal Ball (1998)
5. The Truth (1998)
6. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (1999)
7. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (2001)
8. The
Rainbow Children (2001)
9. One Nite Alone… (2002)
10. One Nite Alone…Live! (2002)
11. One Nite Alone...Live - The Aftershow: It Ain't Over (Up Late with
Prince & The NPG) (2002)
12. Xpectation (2003)
13. N.E.W.S. (2003)
14. C-Note (2004)
15. Musicology (2004)
16. The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG
Music Club: Volume 1) (2004)
17. The
Slaughterhouse (Trax from the NPG
Music Club: Volume 2) (2004)
18. 3121 (2006)
19. Planet Earth (2007)
20. Indigo Nights (2008)
21. LOtUSFLOW3R (2009)
22. MPLSoUND (2009)
23. 20Ten (2010)
24.
Prince Anthology: 1995-2010
Prince Anthology: 1995-2010
01. Emancipation (from Emancipation, 1996)
02.
Black Sweat (from 3121, 2006)
03. P. Control (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
04. Crucial (from Crystal Ball, 1998)
05. The Love We Make (from Emancipation, 1996)
06. Eye Hate U (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
07. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, 1999)
08. Eye Love U, But Eye Don't
Trust U (from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, 1999)
09. Gold (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
10. Guitar (from Planet Earth, 2007)
11.
Dream Factory (from Crystal Ball, 1998)
12. The Work Part 1 (from The
Rainbow Children, 2001)
13. Call My Name (from Musicology, 2004)
14. Strays of The World (from Crystal Ball, 1998)
15. Shhh (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
16. Dreamer (from LOtUSFLOW3R, 2009)
17.
Chaos and Disorder (from
Chaos and Disorder, 1996)
18. Endorphinmachine (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
19. Musicology (from Musicology, 2004)
20. Northside (from The Slaughterhouse, 2004)
21. When Eye Lay My Hands on U (from The Chocolate Invasion, 2004)
22. Beautiful Strange (from Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic, 2001)
23.
Future Soul Song (from 20Ten, 2010)
24. Empty Room (from C-Note, 2004)
25. 3rd Eye (from The Truth, 1998)
26. U're Gonna C Me (from One Nite Alone..., 2002)
27. Dinner With Delores (from
Chaos and Disorder, 1996)
28. Ol' Skool Company (from MPLSoUND, 2009)
29. 4ever (from LOtUSFLOW3R, 2009)
30. West (from N.E.W.S., 2003)
31. Xpedition (from Xpectation, 2003)
32. Muse 2 The Pharaoh (from The
Rainbow Children, 2001)
33. Somewhere Here On Earth (from Planet Earth, 2007)
34. U Make My Sun
Shine (from The Chocolate Invasion, 2004)
35. 1+1+1 Is 3 (from The
Rainbow Children, 2001)
36. Chelsea Rodgers (from Planet Earth, 2007)
37. We March (from The Gold Experience, 1995)
