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Prince albums discography
Studio albums	42
Alive albums	5
Compilation albums	9
Video albums	17
EPs	13
Special editions	half-dozen
Posthumous albums	iii
Internet albums	thirteen
Madhouse albums	2
New Ability Generation albums	3
NPG Orchestra albums	1

Prince's albums discography consists of 42 studio albums (including four soundtrack albums), four alive albums, ix compilation albums (including one soundtrack anthology), 17 video albums and three posthumous albums. See Prince singles discography for his singles and extended plays, and Prince videography for his music videos and video albums.

Prince has sold over 150 million records worldwide,^[1] including 36.5 million certified units in the The states, and over 10 million records in the United kingdom. Rolling Stone ranked him at No. 27 on its listing of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.^[2]

Overview [edit]

Prince's music career began when he signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1977 at xviii years of age. In 1978, he released his debut anthology, For You. He followed the release with Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980), and Controversy (1981), iii albums that were certified platinum and shifted from For You's disco/soul route and instead blended New Moving ridge, stone, popular, R&B, and funk, edifice up his success.

His 1982 album 1999, credited for being an enormous influence on the next few decades of dance, electro, business firm, and techno music,^[3] sold over six million copies worldwide and became the fifth best-selling album of 1983.

The next album, Regal Rain, the first of three credited to Prince and The Revolution, was the 1984 soundtrack to his moving-picture show-debut of the same name. In a delinquent phenomenon of success, it sold over 22 million copies around the world and at one point, Prince had the number-i song, anthology, and picture show in the United states of america, a feat matching The Beatles' 1964 achievement with A Hard Day's Night. Soon tiring of the project'due south enormous success and consistent over-exposure, he and the band recorded throughout touring and planned a change of image and musical direction by means of a quick follow-upwards. 1985's Around the Globe in a 24-hour interval released within a twelvemonth of its predecessor and days after the lucrative Purple Rain tour was curtailed, had no lead unmarried nor advance promotion. Information technology inaugurated his ain Paisley Park tape label, and eschewing Majestic Rain's stone and metal elements, headed off into psychedelic influences and instrumentation.

Prince and The Revolution continued multi-platinum success with the soundtrack to his second movie Under the Cherry Moon, 1986's Parade. It showed further expansion of his musical palette, in ongoing collaboration with band members Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman and composer Clare Fischer. The movie and album brought into play Broadway-style orchestration and French-influenced chanson arrangements simply, like its predecessors, it as well included tracks written, performed and produced entirely solo past Prince.

Following disputes about musical management and a new style of presentation with an expanded 'soul-revue' flavor, Prince disbanded The Revolution at the terminate of the tour.

He resumed a solo career with 1987's Sign o' the Times, an experimental double album, which topped several critic stop-of-yr polls and was Grammy nominated for Album of the Yr. The album'southward projected tour would largely be cancelled as Prince concentrated on developing the acclaimed concert film of the aforementioned name, filming in Europe and at his new Paisley Park facility in Chanhassen.

An untitled follow-upwardly (eventually known every bit The Black Album), promotional copies of which were distributed earlier information technology was cancelled, became the most bootlegged album in the history of the music business organization to date. After a catamenia in which he'd seemed more accessible and grounded, it also restored earlier enigma.

1988's Lovesexy (his first UK number-one tape) built farther on his mystique while recycling i of the Blackness Album tracks. During its subsequent bout, nether some financial pressure, he suddenly became involved with product for a highly anticipated forthcoming Warner Bros. flick production directed past Tim Burton, writing and producing songs for its soundtrack. His Batman album, inspired by the movie, ended his decade by selling 11 million copies worldwide as one of two soundtracks to Batman, the biggest-grossing moving-picture show in cinema history to that appointment.

Prince entered the 1990s with the soundtrack to his fourth flick, Graffiti Bridge. Its moderate success was dwarfed by his 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls which, mixing elements of new jack swing, R&B, jazz-soul, and hip hop and introducing his new band The New Power Generation, spawned several huge hit singles. In its wake, Prince signed what was touted as the biggest bargain in music history, worth a reported $100m. However, afterwards his 1992 follow-up, the Love Symbol Album, only scraped the five one thousand thousand copies he needed to advantage himself under the deal, he began to become dissatisfied with his tape company, fearing they hadn't adequately promoted it, peradventure to disadvantage his side of the deal. Warner countered with requests for him to dull down on delivery of new projects and extend their term of promotion, a request denied by Prince. It was the beginning of a dispute which mushroomed rapidly.

By 1993, Prince had changed his proper name to an united nations-pronounceable symbol in society to escape the terms of his contract every bit the Warner-endemic product, 'Prince'. He began demanding faster release by Warner of more than projects than they were prepared to promote. In a growing effort to eject himself from his contract, his demands increased further to include ownership of his master recordings and he notoriously began to refer to himself as a 'Slave' to the company, wearing this word on his face in public and in negotiation with the label with resultant public embarrassment for both Warner's public image and his ain. He also began to pursue erratic and anarchistic promotional methods for his projects, whether under aliases or as part of projects by his band, at present being planned nether the auspices of a new label, NPG Records which Prince increasingly operated as if an independent venture using Warner as distributor.

In return for co-operating with Warner's The Hits/The B-Sides compilation albums, Prince, under his new name, was granted the opportunity to trial-release independently of Warner on his NPG banner using an external distributor and label. The ane-off experiment, his single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", might have demonstrated that he needed the clout of Warner Bros. for connected success but the single instead became an international boom, his get-go UK number one single, and wrangles between the parties continued with Warner Bros. gradually coming round to the idea of ending their arrangement.

To this end, Warner released several 'Prince' albums in quick succession, including Come and the first official release of his funk 'bootleg' The Black Anthology in 1994. The rock-influenced The Golden Experience had been planned by Prince for release under his new name in competition with Warner's 'Prince' products but information technology was delayed by the characterization until 1995, losing the momentum of its hit unmarried. Past 1996, his sales were at a fraction of what they had been prior to the dispute and the final new album he delivered to the label, 1996's Chaos and Disorder, saw his everyman chart performance since 1980.

Prince then began an contained career, licensing to record companies on limited deals or cocky-distributing via a succession of online operations. The first project, Emancipation was a 3-LP fix licensed to EMI after in 1996. He connected with a bootleg-fashion drove of outtakes, Crystal Brawl, which sold initially via his website in 1998. Now taking 100% of retail minus costs, Prince establish even reduced sales to be much more profitable than at his commercial meridian with Royal Pelting nether his prior percentage deal with Warner. As news of his achievement began to circulate in the changing music industry, Prince's reputation and influence began to recover as his prior struggles were vindicated. His innovation was later rewarded when he received a Webby award, the first recognition of his stance confronting major tape companies equally prescient of changes to come up later in the industry as a whole and of his own online retailing equally visionary and pioneering.

In the concurrently, Prince was not advantaged past being ahead of the times. The poppy Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic in 1999, under a i-off deal with Arista Records, failed to deliver an anticipated render to onetime mainstream chart success. In 2001, while Warner released another successful compilation The Very Best of Prince and now using his nascency name again, put out the critically successful jazz-influenced anthology The Rainbow Children just it struggled to achieve more than cursory media attention and saw poor sales. A solo piano album One Night Alone, sold again via his online functioning, gave its name under slight variation to his first live set, the box set 1 Nite Alone...Live, which saw the big hits of his by redeveloped in the jazz mode of The Rainbow Children alongside many of its tracks in live form.

Adapting to low-sales profitability and developing his hardcore fanbase, at present in close contact with his online business Prince, during the early on part of the new century, was releasing much more easygoing albums via his websites developing a prescient subscription-model for user music purchases.

He was as well optimising and downsizing his touring setup and taking much closer involvement with its assistants and management which involved minimal contractual involvements and more spontaneous campaigning on promotion and alive appearances. A major mainstream 'comeback' presently followed with 2004's Musicology tour, whose album garnered five Grammy nominations and, availing of a loophole (closed backside him), in chart regulations, embedded album sales within ticket sales for the tour which were among the strongest of that year. The result that the album peaked inside the Billboard tiptop 3.

These cut-edge promotional tactics were extremely constructive in restoring Prince speedily to the commercial loftier ground, and 3121 (2006), became his outset album to debut at number i on the Billboard 200. The follow-up, Planet Globe (2007), licensed to record companies for the earth was suddenly given abroad free as a cover-mount on a British newspaper, a very profitable exercise for Prince, particularly equally in addition to providing an income from the paper equivalent to high sales, information technology also served to launch and promote a tape-breaking single-venue booking in London, his 21 Nights residency at the Millennium Dome. Its follow-on live album Indigo Nights (2008), a collection of aftershow performances at the venue, was marketed within an expensive coffee-table book.

The three-disc 2009 ready Lotusflow3r sold very well via the Target retailer in the U.s. once more seeing the inside of the acme three in the Billboard 200. A further British newspaper encompass-mount deal distributed 20Ten in 2010 although the exercise had reduced impact on the 2d outing and disquisitional reception was poor. Information technology was with the solo album Art Official Age and his new band 3rdeyegirl'south debut Plectrumelectrum in 2014, that Prince finally returned to critical favour and headlines following the dynamic and spontaneous HitnRun tour which took London'southward media by storm and gave its name to the band'southward next album Hit n Run Phase One. Start released exclusively on the new Tidal streaming service on September seven, 2015^{[4] [5] [half-dozen]} before being released on CD on September 15, 2015, past NPG Records.^{[7] [viii]} His final album before his decease, Hitting due north Run Phase Ii, was released on December 11, 2015, as well through Tidal.

In the weeks following his death in April 2016, 19 different Prince albums charted on the Billboard 200 all at the aforementioned time, and he became the showtime and simply artist always to have 5 albums in the Billboard height 10 simultaneously.^[nine]

Studio albums [edit]

Year	Anthology	Superlative chart positions											Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US [10]	AUS [11]	AUT [12]	Tin can [13]	GER [14]	NLD [15]	NOR [16]	NZ [17]	SWE [xviii]	SWI [19]	Great britain [twenty]
1978	For You lot Released: Apr seven, 1978 Label: Warner Bros.	138	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	156
1979	Prince Released: Oct xix, 1979 Label: Warner Bros.	22	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	92	—	RIAA: Platinum[21] BPI: Silverish[22]
1980	Dirty Mind Released: October eight, 1980 Label: Warner Bros.	45	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	79	61	RIAA: Gold[21]
1981	Controversy Released: October fourteen, 1981 Label: Warner Bros.	21	55	—	—	—	fifty	—	—	—	—	—	RIAA: Platinum[21] BPI: Gold[22]
1982	1999 [A] Released: Oct 27, 1982 Label: Warner Bros.	7	35	—	23 [23]	37	45	—	6	—	26	28	RIAA: 4× Platinum[21] BPI: Platinum[22] MC: Platinum[24]
1984	Purple Rain [A] Released: June 25, 1984 Label: Warner Bros.	i	1	8	1 [25]	five	1	iv	ii	iii	7	4	RIAA: Diamond (13× Platinum)[21] ARIA: three× Platinum[26] BPI: 2× Platinum[22] MC: 6× Platinum[24]
1985	Around the World in a Day [A] Released: April 22, 1985 Label: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	1	12	vii	sixteen [27]	10	1	x	16	i	8	5	RIAA: 2× Platinum[21] BPI: Gold[22]
1986	Parade [A] Released: March 31, 1986 Characterization: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	3	eight	7	eleven [28]	6	ane	ten	seven	v	ii	four	RIAA: Platinum[21] BPI: Platinum[22]
1987	Sign o' the Times Released: March thirty, 1987 Characterization: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	6	xx	2	27 [29]	3	2	three	six	6	one	4	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: Aureate[30] BPI: Platinum[22] MC: iv× Platinum[24]
1988	Lovesexy Released: May x, 1988 Characterization: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	11	8	3	7 [31]	4	1	2	ane	1	1	ane	RIAA: Gold[21] BPI: Platinum[22]
1989	Batman Released: June 20, 1989 Label: Warner Bros.	ane	four	iii	one	3	1	2	4	two	i	ane	RIAA: two× Platinum[21] BPI: Platinum[22]
1990	Graffiti Bridge Released: August 20, 1990 Label: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	6	10	8	22 [32]	4	four	ii	3	7	2	one	RIAA: Gold[21] BPI: Gold[22] MC: Aureate[24]
1991	Diamonds and Pearls [B] Released: October 1, 1991 Label: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	3	1	four	8 [33]	8	half dozen	5	5	8	3	ii	RIAA: two× Platinum[21] ARIA: iv× Platinum[26] BPI: 3× Platinum[22] MC: two× Platinum[24]
1992	Love Symbol [34] [B] Released: October 13, 1992 Characterization: Paisley Park, Warner Bros.	5	1	1	16 [35]	5	6	10	4	10	4	1	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: Platinum[26] BPI: Platinum[22]
1994	Come Released: Baronial 16, 1994 Label: Warner Bros.	xv	2	iv	34 [36]	9	4	7	xvi	7	iv	ane	RIAA: Gilded[21] BPI: Gold[22]
	The Blackness Album Released: November 22, 1994 Label: Warner Bros.	47	15	7	48 [37]	49	35	—	—	—	8	36
1995	The Aureate Experience Released: September 26, 1995 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.	6	thirteen	28	35 [38]	24	3	12	—	11	7	4	RIAA: Gold[21] BPI: Gold[22]
1996	Chaos and Disorder Released: July 9, 1996 Label: Warner Bros.	26	54	17	43 [39]	42	8	fifteen	—	32	21	14
	Emancipation Released: November 19, 1996 Label: NPG, EMI	11	viii	13	24 [40]	21	13	27	22	22	1	xviii	RIAA: 2× Platinum[21] MC: Platinum[24]
1998	Crystal Ball Released: Jan 29, 1998 Label: NPG Initially released as a limited edition five-CD box prepare together with The Truth and Kamasutra by the NPG Orchestra and a 4-CD box set up together with The Truth.	62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	The Truth Released: January 29, 1998 Characterization: NPG Initially released as a limited edition 5-CD box prepare together with Crystal Brawl and Kamasutra by the NPG Orchestra and a 4-CD box set together with Crystal brawl.	62 (1998) 64 (2021)	—	—	—	—	31 (2021)	—	—	—	—	—
1999	The Vault: Erstwhile Friends iv Sale Released: August 24, 1999 Label: Warner Bros.	85	—	forty	—	44	15	—	—	—	21	47
	Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic Released: November 2, 1999 Characterization: NPG, Arista	18	82	44	five [41]	39	17	37	—	51	xix	145	RIAA: Gold[21]
2001	The Rainbow Children Released: November 20, 2001 Characterization: NPG, Redline Entertainment	109	—	sixty	—	29	28	—	—	—	30	—
2002	One Nite Alone... Released: May xiv, 2002 Characterization: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2003	Xpectation Released: January 1, 2003 Label: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	North·E·W·Due south Released: May 26, 2003 Label: NPG, MP Media	—	—	—	—	93	83	—	—	—	—	—
2004	Musicology Released: March 27, 2004 Label: NPG, Columbia	3	19	4	11	iv	3	2	25	6	2	3	RIAA: 2× Platinum[21] BPI: Gold[22] MC: Gold[24]
	The Chocolate Invasion Released: March 29, 2004 Characterization: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	The Abattoir Released: March 29, 2004 Characterization: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2006	3121 Released: March 21, 2006 Label: NPG, Universal	1	18	15	9	4	iii	five	—	18	1	9	RIAA: Gold[21] BPI: Silver[22]
2007	Planet Earth Released: July 24, 2007 Label: NPG, Columbia	3	38	11	17	7	3	nine	—	35	1	—
2009	Lotusflow3r / MPLSound Released: March 29, 2009 Label: NPG Released every bit a three-CD fix together with Elixer past Bria Valente	ii	—	—	—	—	23	—	—	—	—	—
2010	20Ten Released: July 10, 2010 Label: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2014	Plectrumelectrum [C] Released: September 26, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.	8	33	10	—	31	9	viii	31	50	8	11
	Art Official Age [C] Released: September 26, 2014 Label: NPG, Warner Bros.	v	fifteen	eight	21	18	4	ii	17	9	4	viii
2015	HITnRUN Stage One Released: September 7, 2015 Characterization: NPG	48	25	53	—	53	11	—	—	—	27	l
	HITnRUN Phase Two Released: December 12, 2015 Label: NPG	40	117	20	47	21	38	—	—	l	nine	21

A ^ With The Revolution

B ^ With The New Power Generation

C ^ With 3rdeyegirl

Posthumous albums [edit]

Year	Anthology details	Height nautical chart positions
		Usa [10]	AUS [11]	AUT [12]	Tin [thirteen]	GER [14]	NLD [15]	NOR [16]	SWE [eighteen]	SWI [19]	UK [20] [42]
2018	Piano and a Microphone 1983 Released: September 21, 2018 Label: NPG / Warner Bros. Note: Compilation Album	xi	33	ten	87	12	5	eighteen	22	6	12
2019	Originals Released: June 7, 2019[43] Characterization: NPG / Warner Bros. Notation: Compilation Album	15	18	34	66	26	xi	—	54	9	21
2021	Welcome ii America Released: July thirty, 2021[44] Label: NPG / Legacy Annotation: Studio Anthology	4	5	3	26	3	2	39 [45]	53 [46]	2	5

Live albums [edit]

Year	Album details	Elevation nautical chart positions
		GER [xiv]	NLD [15]	SWI [19]
[47] Label: Warner Bros.	—	—	—
Up All Nite with Prince: The One Nite Solitary Collection Released: May 29, 2020[48] Label: NPG Records / Legacy	30	38	61

Special editions [edit]

This section contains remix albums, mixtapes and premium/special (expanded) editions from previously released albums.

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US [ten]	AUT [12]	NLD [15]	SWI [19]	UK [42]
1995	The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold Released: July 8, 1995 (limited edition cassette) Re-released: April 13, 2019 (limited edition cassette) Re-released: September xiii, 2019 (all other formats) Label: NPG / Legacy	170	fifty	29	30	83
2001	Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic Released: April 29, 2001[49] Label: NPG	—	—	—	—	—
2017	Purple Rain: Palatial / Deluxe Expanded Released: June 23, 2017 Label: Warner Bros.	4	ix	3	12	seven
2019	Ultimate Rave Released: April 26, 2019[l] Label: Legacy	—	—	85	—	—
	1999: Remastered / Palatial / Super Palatial Released: November 27, 2019[51] Label: Warner Bros.	45	72	xv	26	46
2020	Sign o' the Times: Remastered / Palatial / Super Deluxe Released: September 25, 2020[52] Label: Warner Bros.	20	—	2	iii	7

Compilation albums [edit]

Year	Anthology details	Peak chart positions											Certifications (sales thresholds)
		US [x]	AUS [11]	AUT [12]	Tin can [13]	GER [14]	NLD [15]	NOR [16]	NZ [17]	SWE [18]	SWI [nineteen]	United kingdom [20]
1985	His Majesty'due south Popular Life Released: Late 1985 (Nippon only promotional copy) Re-released: Apr 13, 2019 Label: Paisley Park / Warner Bros.	184 (2019)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1993	The Hits 1 Released: September 14, 1993 Characterization: Warner Bros.	46	19	7	34	20	14	fifteen	12	ten	22	5	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: Platinum[26] BPI: Platinum[22]
	The Hits 2 Released: September xiv, 1993 Label: Warner Bros.	54	20	9	36	19	15	14	8	vi	ten	5	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: Gold[26] BPI: Platinum[22]
	The Hits/The B-Sides Released: September 14, 1993 Label: Warner Bros.	four	4	—	67 [53]	58	10	eleven	ane [54]	19	ix	iv	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: two× Platinum[55] BPI: Gold[22] RMNZ: Platinum[56]
1996	Girl six Released: March 19, 1996 Label: Warner Bros.	75	—	—	—	—	83	—	—	—	—	—
2001	The Very Best of Prince Released: July 31, 2001 Characterization: Warner Bros.	one	ii	v	1	v	3	2	1	4	1	2	RIAA: Platinum[21] ARIA: 2× Platinum[26] BPI: 2× Platinum[22] MC: Gold[24] RMNZ: Platinum[56]
2006	Ultimate Prince Released: August 22, 2006 Label: Warner Bros.	half dozen	6	22	22	19	39	10	three	7	nine	three	BPI: Platinum[22] RMNZ: Platinum[56]
2016	4Ever Released: Nov 22, 2016 Characterization: NPG / Warner Bros.	33	36	64	40	87	10	—	—	—	21	21	BPI: Gold[22]
2018	Anthology: 1995–2010 Released: August 17, 2018[57] Label: NPG / Legacy	—	—	—	—	—	197	—	—	—	100	—

Internet albums [edit]

This section lists albums that have merely been made available for download on the internet.

Year	Album details
2001	NPG Music Club Volume 1 Released: February 18, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Society Volume 2 Released: March 22, 2001 Characterization: NPG
	NPG Music Guild Volume three Released: April 22, 2001 Characterization: NPG
	NPG Music Club Volume 4 Released: May fifteen, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Club Book 5 Released: June xi, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Club Volume 6 Released: July 7, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Club Book 7 Released: August 28, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Society Volume 8 Released: August 28, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Club Volume 9 Released: October 16, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Gild Volume 10 Released: November xv, 2001 Label: NPG
	NPG Music Club Volume xi Released: Dec 15, 2001 Label: NPG
2002	NPG Music Social club Volume 12 Released: Jan 17, 2002 Label: NPG
2009	Lotusflow3r (download version including "The Morning After" replacing "Cerise and Clover") Released: March 24, 2009 Label: NPG

Albums credited to Madhouse [edit]

Year	Anthology details	Meridian chart positions
		US [10]
1987	8 Released: January 21, 1987 Characterization: Paisley Park	107
	16 Released: November 18, 1987 Characterization: Paisley Park	—

Albums credited to The New Power Generation [edit]

Twelvemonth	Anthology details	Peak chart positions
		United states [ten]	AUS [11]	AUT [12]	GER [14]	NLD [fifteen]	NOR [16]	SWE [xviii]	SWI [nineteen]	UK [twenty]
1993	Goldnigga Released: August 31, 1993 Characterization: NPG	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1995	Exodus Released: March 27, 1995 Characterization: NPG	—	—	—	—	31	—	—	34	11
1998	Newpower Soul Released: June xxx, 1998 Label: NPG Likewise released as a 3 cd box together with Chaka Khan's Come 2 My House and Graham Central Station's GCS 2000	22	47	24	34	23	40	57	22	38

Albums credited to The NPG Orchestra [edit]

Yr	Album details
1997	Kamasutra Released: February 14, 1997 (limited edition cassette) [58] Released: January 29, 1998 (limited edition CD as office of the five-CD box prepare Crystal Ball / The Truth / Kamasutra) Label: NPG

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Bibliography [edit]

• Nilsen, Per; Joozt Mattheij (2004). The Vault – The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Uptown. ISBN91-631-5482-X.

External links [edit]

• Guide2Prince Worldwide Prince discography
• Review of Prince'south albums
• Prince albums discography discography at Discogs
• The Digital Garden Listing of unofficial Prince recordings

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