Anthology: 1995-2010

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Anthology: 1995-2010
Prince's compilation album

Publication
(s)

17th August 2018

admission

1985-2009

Label (s) NPG Records / Legacy Recordings

Format (s)

Download

Genre (s)

Contemporary R&B , funk , pop music , rock music , soul

Title (number)

37

running time

196: 55

occupation
  • Prince

production

Prince

chronology
4Ever
(2016) 		Anthology: 1995-2010 His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club
(2019)
Single releases
September 12, 1995 Eye Hate U
November 30, 1995 gold
June 12, 1996 Dinner with Delores
October 5, 1999 The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
April 6, 2001 The Work Pt. 1
April 10, 2001 U Make My Sun Shine
April 22, 2004 Musicology
March 27, 2006 Black sweat
July 9, 2007 Guitar

Anthology: 1995–2010 ( English for anthology : 1995–2010 ) is the seventh compilation album by the American musician Prince and the second to be published posthumously . It was released on August 17, 2018 by the music label NPG Records / Legacy Recordings and is only available as a download . The compilation includes 37 songs that were originally released between 1995 and 2010.

The music on the album belongs to the genres of contemporary R&B , funk , pop music , rock music and soul . Guest musicians include Angie Stone , Ani DiFranco , Candy Dulfer , Christian Scott , Clare Fischer , Larry Graham , Nona Gaye , Rosie Gaines and Susannah Melvoin . NPG Records / Legacy Recordings did not organize any noteworthy music promotion for Anthology: 1995–2010 ; it could not achieve gold or platinum status internationally.

There was little mass media interest in the album, but music critics rated the album very positively.

Emergence

When Prince died unexpectedly in April 2016, he left no will that could regulate the copyrights of his written songs. By court order , his sister and his five living half-siblings have been designated as heirs, who signed a lawyer contract with Sony Music Entertainment in June 2018 . This contract means that Sony - under the music label Legacy Recording - received the rights to 19 albums that Prince released between 1995 and 2010. Nothing has been publicly known about the purchase price.

Ten songs from Anthology: 1995–2010 Prince had already recorded before 1995; He recorded Dream Factory in December 1985, Crucial in September 1986, Strays of the World in May 1993 and Chaos and Disorder in October 1993. The six tracks Endorphinmachine , Eye Hate U , Gold , P. Control , Shhh and We March from the album He recorded The Gold Experience from June 1992 to July 1994. The songs mentioned ten had not published Prince at the time, but only starting in 1995. The recorded at spätesten song by Anthology: 1995-2010 is Future Soul Song , the Prince turned completed in November 2009 and 2010 on his album 20th -placed .

The commercially successful song The Most Beautiful Girl in the World , which was originally released as a single in 1994, but was also placed on the 1995 album The Gold Experience , is not available on Anthology: 1995-2010 . This could be due to possible copyright infringements because Prince lost a plagiarism case against two Italian songwriters in 2015 . According to the final court ruling, The Most Beautiful in the World may not be distributed in Italy until further notice. The final situation has not yet been clarified (as of 2020), as Prince died on April 21, 2016.

music

The music of Anthology: 1995-2010 can be assigned to different musical genres; for example, the songs Crucial , Emancipation and When Eye Lay My Hands on U come from Contemporary R&B . Black Sweat , Musicology , Northside and P. Control belong to the funk genre, Future Soul Song and Shhh come from the soul area . The pieces Dinner with Delores and Gold can be assigned to the genre of pop music , and Chaos and Disorder , Dreamer and Guitar to the area of rock music . Songs like Call My Name , Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore , Somewhere Here on Earth and U're Gonna C Me are ballads . The two instrumental pieces West and Xpedition have elements from the genre jazz and fusion .

Guest musicians include Nona Gaye on the song We March (1995), Rosie Gaines on Chaos and Disorder (1996), Susannah Melvoin on Dream Factory (1998), Ani DiFranco on Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore ( 1999), Larry Graham at The Work Pt. 1 (2001), Angie Stone for U Make My Sun Shine (2001), Candy Dulfer for Xpedition (2003), Clare Fischer for Strays of the World (1998) and Call My Name (2004) and Christian Scott for Somewhere Here on Earth (2007).

Title list and publication

# title Duration Original sound carrier
1 Emancipation 4:13 1996: Emancipation
2 Black sweat 3:11 2006: 3121
3 P. Control 5:59 1995: The Gold Experience
4th Crucial 5:08 1998: Crystal Ball
5 The Love We Make 4:39 1996: Emancipation
6th Eye Hate U 6:07 1995: The Gold Experience
7th The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 5:33 1999: Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
8th Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore 3:36 1999: Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
9 gold 7:22 1995: The Gold Experience
10 Guitar 3:45 2007: Planet Earth
11 Dream Factory 3:07 1998: Crystal Ball
12 The Work Pt. 1 4:28 2001: The Rainbow Children
13 Call my name 5:15 2004: Musicology
14th Strays of the World 5:06 1998: Crystal Ball
15th Shhh 7:17 1995: The Gold Experience
16 Dreamer 5:32 2009: Lotusflow3r
17th Chaos and Disorder 4:19 1996: Chaos and Disorder
18th Endorphin machine 4:06 1995: The Gold Experience
19th Musicology 4:24 2004: Musicology
20th Northside 6:31 2004: The Slaughterhouse
21st When Eye Lay My Hands on U 3:40 2004: The Chocolate Invasion
22nd Beautiful strange 4:55 2001: Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic
23 Future Soul Song 5:08 2010: 20th
24 Empty Room (Live from One Nite Alone Tour 2002) 4:00 2003: C-Note
25th 3rd eye 4:54 1998: The Truth
26th U're gonna C Me 5:16 2002: One Nite Alone ...
27 Dinner with Delores 2:46 1996: Chaos and Disorder
28 Ol 'Skool Company 7:30 2009: MPLSound
29 4 Ever 3:47 2009: Lotusflow3r
30th west 14:00 2003: NEWS
31 Xpedition 8:23 2003: Xpectation
32 Muse 2 the Pharaoh 4:21 2001: The Rainbow Children
33 Somewhere Here on Earth 5:45 2007: Planet Earth
34 U Make My Sun Shine (duet with Angie Stone ) 7:05 2004: The Chocolate Invasion
35 1 + 1 + 1 Is 3 5:17 2001: The Rainbow Children
36 Chelsea Rodgers 5:41 2007: Planet Earth
37 We March 4:49 1995: The Gold Experience
Playing time: 196: 55
Note: Prince is the author of all songs

Anthology: 1995–2010 was released on August 17, 2018 as a download from music streaming providers such as Apple Music , Spotify or Tidal . The album can also be listened to free of charge on the Prince YouTube channel .

The compilation consists of 37 songs, which are composed of the 19 Prince albums to which Sony had acquired the rights. The albums Lotusflow3r and MPLSound count as one album; Prince originally released the two albums in 2009 as a triple album, along with the Elixer album . Prince released the two albums Crystal Ball and The Truth in 1998 in a CD box set . The song Beautiful Strange can be heard on the remix album Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic , which was only available for purchase in 2001 via his website at the time.

The four albums C-Note , Xpectation (both 2003), The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse (both 2004) are only available for download. In 2010 the album 20Ten was only available for purchase as a CD from a newspaper.

Single releases

The compilation features nine single releases from 1995 to 2007. Eye Hate U and Gold were released from the album The Gold Experience in 1995 . Dinner with Delores was the June 1996 pre-release single for Chaos and Disorder and the song The Greatest Romance Ever Sold was the pre-release single for Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic in October 1999 .

On December 21, 2000, Prince U released Make My Sun Shine as a paid download single and on April 10, 2001 on CD. At the times mentioned, the piece was not to be found on any of his albums; it was not until 2004 that he placed it on his download album The Chocolate Invasion . The song The Work Part 1 from the album The Rainbow Children could also be downloaded for a fee in April 2001. The single Musicology was released in April 2004 from the album of the same name and Black Sweat in March 2006 from the album 3121 . The track Guitar is the only single from the album Planet Earth and was released in July 2007.

The five songs Endorphinmachine , P. Control (both 1995), U're Gonna C Me (2002), Call My Name (2004) and Chelsea Rodgers (2007) have been released as a promotional sound carrier .

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1995 Eye Hate U
The Gold Experience 		DE62 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH31 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK20 (3 weeks)
UK 		US12 (10 weeks)
US
First published: September 12, 1995
Gold
The Gold Experience 		DE58 (13 weeks)
DE 		- - UK10 (9 weeks)
UK 		US88 (2 weeks)
US
First published: November 30, 1995
1996 Dinner with Delores
Chaos and Disorder 		- ATnvAT CHnvCH UK36 (2 weeks)
UK 		USnvUS
First published: June 12, 1996
• Decoupled in Germany, UK and Japan only
1999 The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 		DE79 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - UK65 (2 weeks)
UK 		US63 (13 weeks)
US
First published: October 5, 1999
2001 The Work Part 1
The Rainbow Children 		- - - - -
First published: April 6, 2001
• Download single
U Make My Sun Shine (feat. Angie Stone )
The Chocolate Invasion 		DEnvDE ATnvAT CHnvCH UKnvUK -
First published: April 10, 2001
• Decoupled in the US only
2004 Musicology
Musicology 		DEnvDE - CH27 (7 weeks)
CH 		- US120 (3 weeks)
US
First published: April 22, 2004
• Not released worldwide
Call My Name
Musicology 		DEnvDE ATnvAT CHnvCH UKnvUK US75 (18 weeks)
US
• No single release, placed via Airplay
• Chart entry: August 21, 2004
2006 Black Sweat
3121 		DE80 (4 weeks)
DE 		- CH52 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK43 (2 weeks)
UK 		US60 (1 week)
US
First published: March 27, 2006
2007 Guitar
Planet Earth 		DEnvDE - CH63 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK81 (1 week)
UK 		USnvUS
First published: July 9th, 2007
• Not released worldwide

Music videos

Prince produced 14 music videos for songs that can be heard on Anthology: 1995-2010 :

  1. Endorphinmachine - produced in February 1994
  2. Gold - produced October 10, 1995
  3. Eye Hate U - produced October 22, 1995
  4. Dinner with Delores - produced May 20, 1996
  5. Beautiful Strange - Released August 24, 1999
  6. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold - produced November 6, 1999
  7. U Make My Sun Shine - Released February 18, 2001
  8. When Eye Lay My Hands on U - Released February 18, 2001
  9. Musicology - produced October 10, 2003
  10. Call My Name - produced May 21, 2004
  11. Black Sweat - Produced January 21, 2006
  12. Guitar - released May 31, 2007
  13. Somewhere Here on Earth - produced in mid-September 2007
  14. Chelsea Rodgers - Produced September 19, 2007

reception

Press

Although the album was Anthology: 1995-2010 in various online - mass media mentioned, but reviews are just to find a few. The coverage mainly focused on the fact that since August 2018, over 300 Prince songs can be downloaded from the Internet or listened to on streaming services.

Will Hermes from the US music magazine Rolling Stone praised the album and gave it four out of five stars. He wrote that the 37 songs “cover an amazing spectrum”; “Pop gems, piano ballads” and “fire-breathing jazz fusion instrumentals” can be heard. Prince did not follow music trends in his career and "many highlights" of Anthology: 1995-2010 are tributes to his musical ancestors. For example, The Work Part 1 (2001) is an homage to James Brown , U're Gonna C Me (2002) to Joni Mitchell , Northside (2004) to Sly Stone and Dreamer (2009) to Jimi Hendrix . The song P. Control sounds “still so brilliant”, as if it hadn't even been released in 1995. In addition, songs were selected that had influenced other musicians; Pieces like Eye Hate U (1995), Shhh (1995), The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (1999), Muse 2 the Pharaoh (2001) and Call My Name (2004) inspired neo-soul musicians like D'Angelo , and tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington "undoubtedly" "noticed" the piece West (2003). Chelsea Rodgers (2007) is "a secret weapon among certain club DJs ".

Hermes complained that on Anthology: 1995-2010 no cover versions of Prince can be heard; the songs he interpreted Betcha by Golly Wow! and La, La, La, Means Eye Love U , both found on Emancipation (1996) and originally written by Thom Bell , were among Prince's "greatest moments of the past few days." In addition, the songs lacked Everyday is a Winding Road , the on Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (1999) can be heard and Sheryl Crow was written, as well as "the jewel" So Far, So Pleased (1999), a book written by him duet with Gwen Stefani . Hermes concluded that one could be happy that Prince had left enough songs for the next few years.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic also gave four out of five stars and said among other things: "Frankly, this type of compilation was urgently needed". Anthology: 1995–2010 offers an opportunity to “navigate” Prince's extensive music catalog from this period. Above all, the compilation shows how Prince returns "to his soul", which he "used as the main source" during his "glory days" in the 1980s. The songs not only underline his musical versatility, but also “his craftsmanship”, which “never let him down”.

Charts and awards

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) - (- Where.) -
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) - (- Where.) -
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 100 (1 week) 1
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) - (- Where.) -
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) - (- Where.) -

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Colin Stutz: Prince Estate Signs Deal With Sony Music to Re-Release 35 Catalog Albums. In: Billboard.com. June 27, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
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Prince
Studio albums

For You (1978) • Prince (1979) • Dirty Mind (1980) • Controversy (1981) • 1999 (1982) / 1999 Deluxe (2019) • Purple Rain (1984) / Purple Rain Deluxe (2017) • Around the World in a Day (1985) • Parade (1986) • Sign "☮" the Times (1987) • Lovesexy (1988) • Batman (1989) • Graffiti Bridge (1990) • Diamonds and Pearls (1991) • Love Symbol (1992) • Come (1994) • Black Album (1994) • The Gold Experience (1995) • Chaos and Disorder (1996) • Emancipation (1996) • Crystal Ball (1998) • The Truth (1998) • The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale ( 1999) • Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (1999) • The Rainbow Children (2001) • One Nite Alone… (2002) • Xpectation (download album - 2003) • NEWS (2003) • The Chocolate Invasion (download album - 2004) • The Slaughterhouse (Download album - 2004) • Musicology (2004) • 3121 (2006) • Planet Earth (2007) • Lotusflow3r (2009) • MPLSound (2009) • 20Ten (2010) • PlectrumElectrum (2014) • Art Official Age (2014) • HITnRUN Phase One (2015) • HITnRUN Phase Two (2015) • Piano & A Microphone 1983 (2018) • Originals (2019)

Mix tapes

NYC (1997)

Extended plays

The Scandalous Sex Suite (1989) • New Power Generation Remixes (1990) • Gett Off Remix EP (1991) • Cream Remixes (1991) • My Name Is Prince Remixes (1992) • 7 Remixes (1992) • The Beautiful Experience (1994 ) • Letitgo Remixes (1994) • Space Remixes (1994) • Eye Hate U Remixes (1995) • 1999 - The New Master (1999) • The Greatest Romance Ever Sold Remixes (1999) • The Breakfast Experience (2013)

Remix albums

His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club (1985) • The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) (1995) • Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic (2001)

Live albums

One Nite Alone… Live! (2002) • One Nite Alone… The Aftershow: It Ain't Over! (2002) • C-Note (2003) • Indigo Nights (2008) • Live in Detroit - November 30, 1982 (2019)

Soundtracks

Purple Rain (1984) • Under the Cherry Moon (1986) • Batman (1989) • Graffiti Bridge (1990) • Girl 6 (1996)

Compilation albums

The Hits / The B-Sides (1993) • The Hits 1 (1993) • The Hits 2 (1993) • The Very Best of Prince (2001) • Ultimate (2006) • 4Ever (2016) • Anthology: 1995–2010 ( 2018)

Tours

Prince tour (1979–80) • Fire It Up tour by Rick James (Prince as opening act - 1980) • Dirty Mind tour (1980–81) • Controversy tour (1981–82) • 1999 tour (1982–83) • Purple Rain Tour (1984–85) • Hit-N-Run Tour (1986) • Parade Tour (1986) • Sign-o'-the-Times-Tour (1987) • Lovesexy -Tour (1988-89) • Nude-Tour (1990) • Diamonds-and-Pearls-Tour (1992) • Act-I-Show (1993) • Act-II-Show (1993) • The Ultimate Live Experience (1995 ) • Japan ′96 (1996) • Love-4-One-Another-Charities-Tour 1997 (1997) • Jam-of-the-Year-Tour (1997-98) • Newpower-Soul-Tour / Newpower-Soul- Festival-Tour (1998) • Hit-N-Run-Tour (2000–01) • One-Nite-Alone-Tour (2002) • World-Tour 2003 (2003) • Musicology Live 2004ever (2004) • Per4ming Live 3121 in Las Vegas (2006–07) • 21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour (2007) • 20Ten Tour (2010) • Welcome 2 America Tour (2010–12) • Live Out Loud Tour (2013 ) • Hit-N-Run-Tour (2014) • Hit-N-Run-Tour 2015 (2015) • Piano & A Microphone (2016)