Prince New Album Originals Available In June Featuring 14 Unreleased Tracks

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THE PRINCE ESTATE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WARNER BROS. RECORDS AND TIDAL, ANNOUNCES NEW PRINCE ALBUM
ORIGINALS
FEATURING 14 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS 

ALBUM AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON TIDAL JUNE 7
CD / DOWNLOAD / STREAMING RELEASE JUNE 21
180 GRAM 2LP AND DELUXE CD+2LP RELEASE JULY 19

PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE

(Minneapolis, MN - April 25, 2019) Prince will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping recording artist, and music business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he spent in the spotlight over his four-decade-long career, Prince also worked tirelessly behind the scenes to nurture talent and pen songs for the rising artists he respected. 

This June, The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Bros. Records and TIDAL, will release Originals, a 15-track album featuring 14 previously unreleased recordings that illuminate the vital, behind-the-scenes role Prince played in other artists' careers. The tracks were selected collaboratively by Troy Carter, on behalf of The Prince Estate, and JAY-Z. 

Starting June 7, Originals will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days. In the spirit of sharing Prince's music with his fans as he wanted, the album will be available to stream in Master quality via TIDAL's HiFi subscription tier. Members will be able to hear the recordings just as the Artist intended the tracks to sound. 
  
On June 21st, Warner Bros. Records will release this extraordinary body of work, sourced directly from Prince's vast archive of Vault recordings, via all download and streaming partners and physically on CD, while 180 gram 2LP and limited edition Deluxe CD+2LP formats will follow on July 19th. Pre-order the album here.

By the mid-1980s, Prince was dominating the charts even as a writer/producer with songs he'd composed and recorded for others.  In addition to releasing nine of his most commercially successful full-length albums, he also wrote and recorded endless reels of material for proteges The Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E., Apollonia 6, Jill Jones, the Family, and Mazarati. Occasionally, Prince's original demo recordings would be used as master takes on their albums, with only minor alterations to the instrumentation and a replacement of the vocal tracks. Other times, artists would rely on his demos to guide them through their own recording process, with Prince's initial take informing their final version of his song.  The aggregate effect was a complete saturation and transformation of the pop music landscape, with Prince both leading and subverting mainstream culture.

Several of the iconic songs found on Originals were considerable hits for the artists who recorded them. Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life" reached #1 on the dance charts in 1984, while the enormous success of "Manic Monday" propelled the single and its accompanying album, The Bangles' Different Light, to the #2 spot on the pop charts. The Time's Ice Cream Castle, featuring the top 20 "Jungle Love", spent a whopping 57 weeks on the Billboard 200. And in 1991, Martika enjoyed international success with "Love... Thy Will Be Done", a top 10 hit in France, Australia, the UK and the USA. 

Originals pulls back the curtain to reveal the origins of these familiar songs, in addition to deeper album cuts such as Vanity 6's "Make-Up," Jill Jones's "Baby, You're a Trip," and Kenny Rogers' "You're My Love." The album also features Prince's majestic original 1984 version of "Nothing Compares 2 U," released in 2018 as a standalone single.

Song Title                                                      First Released by (Artist: Album - year)                                                 Year of Prince's Recording Included on Originals 

1. Sex Shooter                                                 Apollonia 6: Apollonia 6 - 1984                                                                                             1983
2. Jungle Love                                                 The Time: Ice Cream Castle - 1984                                                                                      1983
3. Manic Monday                                             The Bangles: Different Light - 1985                                                                                      1984
4. Noon Rendezvous                                       Sheila E.: The Glamorous Life - 1984                                                                                  1984
5. Make-Up                                                      Vanity 6: Vanity 6 - 1982                                                                                                       1981
6. 100 MPH                                                      Mazarati: Mazarati - 1986                                                                                                    1984
7. You're My Love                                            Kenny Rogers: They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - 1986                                     1982
8. Holly Rock                                                   Sheila E.: Krush Groove (OST) - 1985                                                                                 1985
9. Baby, You're a Trip                                      Jill Jones: Jill Jones - 1987                                                                                                   1982
10. The Glamorous Life                                  Sheila E.: The Glamorous Life - 1984                                                                                   1983
11. Gigolos Get Lonely Too                             The Time: What Time Is It? - 1982                                                                                       1982
12. Love... Thy Will Be Done                           Martika: Martika's Kitchen - 1991                                                                                         1991
13. Dear Michaelangelo                                  Sheila E.: Romance 1600 - 1985                                                                                          1985
14. Wouldn't You Love to Love Me?               Taja Sevelle: Taja Sevelle - 1987                                                                                           1981
15. Nothing Compares 2 U                             The Family: The Family - 1985                                                                                              1984

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