Prince’s unreleased song “Hot Summer” has been released.
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Prince – “Cosmic Day”
Prince’s estate has released “Cosmic Day.”
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The Prince estate has shared an unheard acoustic demo of “I Feel For You.”
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Sony Gets Rights to Prince Music
Sony Music Entertainment has inked a deal to distribute 35 previously released Prince albums, the label and the late musician’s estate said Wednesday.
Terms of the deal, coming 26 months after Prince’s death, were not disclosed — but sources pegged its value at $20 million to $30 million.
Giphy Releases Prince Gifs
I recently integrated Giphy into our forums, and Giphy has just released an entire archive of high-quality Prince gifs from practically all his music videos. Perfect timing.
Price – “Mary Don’t You Weep” Video
The Prince Estate and Warner Bros. have released a new music video for “Mary Don’t You Weep.”
New Prince Album Coming This Fall
A new posthumous release from Prince, called Piano & A Microphone 1983, will be released on September 21st via Warner Bros. Records. The album is 35 minutes long and will feature nine tracks that Prince recorded to cassette at his home studio.
One of the songs from the album, a rendition of “Mary Don’t You Weep,” is available on Spotify and Apple Music.
New Prince Material Coming Next Year
A new Prince album will be coming to Tidal next year:
Per the new agreement, the album will stream exclusively on Tidal for two weeks and will be available to download seven days after its debut, with a physical release planned for later that year.
Prince’s Official Memoir Coming Later this Year
Newberg said Prince was committed to the book project and working with author Dan Piepenbring. Prince delivered about 50 handwritten manuscript pages before his death. Newberg said the long-awaited book is expected to be published just in time for the holiday season and may include reproductions of Prince’s longhand pages.
London Grammar Cover “Purple Rain”
London Grammar covered Prince’s “Purple Rain” for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge.
Prince Sold More Albums Than Any Other Artist in 2016
In the year after Prince’s death on April 21, 2016, the Purple One’s catalog of albums and songs have sold a combined 7.7 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, through the week ending April 13. Of that sum, 2.3 million were in traditional album sales, and 5.4 million were from digital song downloads.
The bulk of his album and songs sales occurred in the month after his death: 5.65 million were registered between April 21 and May 19, 2016.
Incredibly, for the full year of 2016, Prince sold more albums than any other artist — even Adele — with 2.23 million copies sold. (Adele sold 2.21 million albums last year.)
Prince Albums Return to Streaming Services
Prince’s Warner Music catalog has returned to a variety of streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music:
The Purple One’s Warner Music catalog, including the albums “Purple Rain,” “1999” and “Sign O’ the Times,” will be available Feb. 12 on subscription-streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Napster and iHeartRadio …
Prince Estate Selects Universal to Manage NPG Records Catalog
Universal Music Group will manage Prince’s vault of unreleased music. Billboard reports:
As expected, the Universal Music Group has announced a multi-year agreement with Prince’s estate and NPG Records, granting the major label group exclusive licensing rights to much of the late artist’s catalog of released and unreleased works. Much of the material dates from the latter part of Prince’s career, after he parted ways with Warner Bros. Records in 1996.
Prince’s Estate Nearing Streaming Deals
Billboard is reporting that Prince’s catalog may becoming back to streaming services after the Grammys:
A likely scenario would see a TV commercial air during the Grammy broadcast following the tribute, which would announce that certain songs are immediately available on Spotify, Apple Music and possibly other services. The source tells Billboard that publishers, performing rights organizations and at least one label have been alerted to an impending deal.
An Oral History of Prince
GQ:
He was a legend, a virtuoso, one of the true gods of music. But he was also (at times, anyway) a person in the world like anyone else. He liked to send goofy Internet memes to his friends. He made really good scrambled eggs. He rode his bike a lot, went to the hardware store, called old friends late at night. Chris Heath spoke with band members, fellow artists, and Paisley Park veterans about the life and times of Prince Rogers Nelson—the real Prince, the man so few people got to know before he was gone.