ARTIST: Prince
TITLE: 3121
LABEL: Universal
GENRE: R&B
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 53min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-03-21
RIP DATE: 2006-03-05
Track List
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01. 3121 4:31
02. Lolita 4:06
03. Te Amo Corazon 3:35
04. Black Sweat 3:11
05. Incense And Candles 4:04
06. Love 5:45
07. Satisfied 2:50
08. Fury 4:02
09. The Word 4:11
10. Beautiful, Loved & Blessed 5:43
11. The Dance 5:20
12. Get On The Boat 6:19
Release Notes:
Prince's rise to fame was nothing short of meteoric, from a buzzed-about
musician (with the release of his first album, 1979's For You) to arguably one
of the most acclaimed and influential artist of the 20th century. USA Today has
hailed him as "one of the most daring and brilliant artists," just one of the
many accolades bestowed on Prince by both critics and peers throughout his
career. In fact, a chorus of acclaim literally exploded with the release of the
Minnesota native's world-changing, 1984 dual phenomenon of Purple Rain (the
movie broke box office records, the Grammy-nominated album sold more than 11
million copies and spent 24 weeks at #1), making Prince one of the few
triple-threats in history to simultaneously land the #1 single, album and movie.
His plaintively brilliant single, "When Doves Cry," the first of many Top Tens,
exemplified the kind of transformational musical current that only Prince could
deliver. To top it off, he won the "Best Original Score" Academy Award for
Purple Rain. A series of seminal albums - from 1985's Around The World In A Day
to 1987's prophetic Sign o' the Times, to 1989's Batman soundtrack to 1991's
Diamonds And Pearls, indelibly cemented his reputation as a 21st century
impresario, and a fearless pursuer of the musical stratosphere.
With more than 60 million records sold, Prince launched his web-centric NPG
Music Club, a groundbreaking, completely autonomous Prince-authorized nexus,
emphasizing direct sales and value-added content for Prince fans and
subscribers, a virtual template of the kind of online, artist-driven
entrepreneurial models artists and internet gurus would be gravitating towards
the close of the decade. More groundbreaking albums followed, with Prince
himself stewarding their marketing and promotion. A varied array of label
distribution deals were interspersed throughout, with major imprints such as
EMI, Arista and Columbia, forming temporary but fruitful relationships with the
evocative artist.
Last year saw the cultural icon command the mainstream music radar with a
vengeance, releasing the critically and commercially acclaimed Musicology (the
disc snagged two Grammys), being inducted to the Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame, and
rolling out one of the most successful, talked about tours in music history,
(Pollstar Magazine crowned him a top concert draw for the year) coinciding with
the two-decade anniversary of his masterpiece Purple Rain. Prince also won an
NAACP Image award in 2004 and was most recently inspired to write two songs to
benefit Hurricane Katrina victims, "S.S.T." and "Brand New Orleans," both of
which are available on NPGMusicClub.com.
Official Website: http://www.npgmusicclub.com/