Prince Archives

Sony releases Prince legacy recordings and a new anthology

20/08/2018

Sony Music Entertainment releases Prince legacy recordings and a new anthology in digital formats which are available for streaming and download. Scheduled to be the first of many, Sony have made available 23 back catalogue titles (including rare and out-of-print recordings) plus a newly curated 37 track compilation – Prince Anthology: 1995-2010. The first wave of Prince back catalogue titles focuses on 1995-2010, a crucial time in Prince’s history and adds more than 300 essential Prince […]

Prince’s Purple becomes a standard

17/08/2018

Pantone Color Institute and The Prince Estate have created a Pantone standardised custom colour based on Prince’s custom-made Yamaha purple piano which was originally scheduled to go on tour with the performer before his untimely passing at the age of 57. Prince’s association with the colour purple was cemented in 1984 with the release of the film Purple Rain, along with its Academy Award-winning soundtrack featuring the eponymous song. While the spectrum of the colour […]

TIDAL and The Prince Estate reach deal to release new music

18/05/2018

TIDAL and The Prince Estate have confirmed plans to release new Prince music exclusively via the TIDAL streaming service. The new album will contain previously unreleased music sourced from Prince’s vast archive of Vault recordings. The album – expected to be released in 2019 – will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days and will be available for download seven days after its debut. A global physical release is planned following the exclusive digital premiere […]