PurpleRein said:

Well said. All of it true..


Let Universal do their thing . I want P to have a hit as much as the next guy but personally I think they are promtoing the hell out of it . SNL , worldwide listening parties, Purple Ticket contests

newpower99 said:

Well, i've done my bit. i've just flooded there inbox with countless e-mails asking 4 better promotion for black sweat and 3121. Now i can relax and stop being a Prince geek... for this week anyway

Feel free to take over...

US - communications@umusic.com
UK - communications2@umusic.com

Well, when I go back and look at Prince's output over the past 15 years or so I just can't find any songs that were produced for the charts. They were either over produced or lacked the energy of his 80's and early 90's output. What I'm hearing in BS and Fury is a power in his voice and a conviction that hasn't been there since the mid-80's when I saw him light the world on fire, specifically concerts in Europe of Parade and Sign O The Times, when I lived in Germany. Just listen to his "Dearly Beloved" from Let's Go Crazy last week at the Brits. There's something there in his voice, he's determined to make a splash now and it is showing to me.

I can't say the charts are any different now than in the 80's. They played the same tired Wham and Culture Club over and over and over back then. Once in a while a James Brown or even the Beatles could top the charts, but today we have Santana and even Madonna doing it. It can be done, but the songs after to have POWER. America loves to ROCK! It doesn't have to be "rock music" per se, but give us something to jump around or jam to, not mid-tempo numbers like "Come On" or "Musicology".

Anyway, I think he's delivered, so far, with songs from 3121. Black Sweat will chart soon thanks to sales and Fury could follow up huge, if the studio version's anywhere close to the SNL live version.

MarcelJ said:

i'll drink to that.

GoldenGlove said:

Me too!!

Hot 100 Single Sales :
#3 - ???
#25 - ???

R&B / Hip Hop Top 100
#67 - Te Amo Corazon

R&B / Hip Hop Single Sales
#4 - ????
#49 - ????


wow - thanks for the info, i can only presume the ???s are SST and TAC. I'd presume at #4 is TAC, as its the newest release. someone posted info from billboard recently of the chart positions of all princes singles, or alot of them anyway. and SST was still at that time in the single sales charts.

its a shame really as prince still sells a fair amount of singles compared to other artists, yet how many sales did he lose because he released SST on his site for ages before a single came out (ok the single was universals idea after the release but still) and TAC is a one track single so noone is fussed - i do wonder how they would be doing otherwise.

you'd think having the 3rd best selling single on the charts would make it chart at least in the top200, if not the top100. american charts are too confusing it seems!

anyone clear this up?

It is very dissapointing that radio isnt playing BS much. What a shame.

What makes people think that radio will play Fury? I agree it's the shit, I love it, but why will radio play that one?

bkw said:

You know, it's been so long since Prince charted pop/rock that I can't tell you for sure it will chart. For some reason, it's not a genre that's driven by youth as much as Urban is. Bands like Aerosmith and other older acts can put songs on the Hot 100 when it's tougher for older R&B acts. It's always been that way, for some reason. A DJ once told me, R&B always has to be the latest sound, but Rock&Roll never dies.

I agree with Purple Knight that Prince doesn't show any signs of having a big hit in the near future. But if he continues working, I think chances are he will have one. Your reasoning is very sound, but I think your prediction is wrong (and not because I just love Prince & want him to have a hit.

Classic artists tend to reach a point where everyone suddenly realizes that they are great.

James Brown's Living in America was a great example. Clapton's Tears in Heaven is another example. Santana (though that was a collaboration). Bonnie Raitt. Tom Jones (!?). Johnny Cash. Elvis (A Little Less Conversation). Roy Orbison. John Lennon. Elvis Costello (Veronica)

The great ones tend to return at some point.

Also spin control could say that Call My Name was a Grammy winning hit song, so it's hard to know what a hit even is anymore.

MarcelJ said:

i don't like country music but i admire them because no matter how old an artist is they still give them plenty of airplay and respect and they are open to other artists such as Bon Jovi who now has a big country hit

i just don't get radio stations wouldn't they want to play songs from an album that is popular no matter how old the artist is? if 150,000 people buy a rolling stones or even a barry manilow album doesnt that tell them that these artists are still vital? black sweat is #1 on the album chart and climbing the top 100 chart on Itunes dont they see things like this? nowonder people have stopped listening to radio

BBC Radio one willplay Black Sweat 2day.

another thing why hasnt black sweat gone for adds at HOT A/C? thats the format most likely to play Prince and the format 80's acts go when they have a new song..he's missing a lot of spins not being in that format yet

murph said:

I hope he doesn't want massive airplay that badly
cause I sure don't want a Prince w/Nas remix.

PurpleKnight said:

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Call My Name was in the top 20 on the RnB chart. Therefore, it was hit. That song received airplay for over a year.

bkw said:

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I am begining to wonder if P is being blackballed by radio or if it is just his age. There is nothing wrong with this song.

laurarichardson said:

you might be right he hasnt had decent airplay in years probably going back to 1994 when he was only 35...Madonna is his age and has no problem with airplay

Mazerati said:

And THAT is what pisses me off the most. Now I'm a Madonna fan and I dig that she still gets airplay but if that bitch can get her songs over the airwaves why the fuck can't Prince? They are the same age, they both have songs on MTV and VH1 but yet why is it such a fucken burden to hear this new song from him and not her? Can't whoever runs things get over the stuff from 10 years ago?It's pure bullshit man and that shit needs to stop NOW.

Here's a way to stop this madness with the radio and Prince. Here is the web address for Clear Channel:

betterradio@clearchannel.com

It's time to fight these fuckers. E-mail the fuck out of them RIGHT NOW!

It says here that BS is released arch 13th??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp...soon.shtml

purplecam said:

Done

laurarichardson said:

Yeah, but I'm not interested in separate charts in this discussion. Only in the Billboard Top 40 US Singles one. CMN peaked in the 70's on that one.

PurpleKnight said:

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If it charted on any of the Billboard Charts it is considered a hit. RnB charts matter just as much as the Top 40.

laurarichardson said:

No they don't. WHen people ask "Where did so and so peak in the charts?" they mean the propper charts. i.e "Top 40 singles chart"

So am I understanding this right??...Black Sweat is the 8th most played video on MTV right now?...It is listed as having 20 spins over the past 7 days, and the #1 video only has 23 spins?

And it's barely getting played on BET??...

Byron said:

S the airplay is pretty good, however, If it doesn't get relleased on "CD" it'll never chart! lol

Byron said:

Isn't that just disgusting? The same motherfucking station that introduced the man can barley get any airplay on it? BET needs to be destroyed and as a black man it angers me to even think like this.

Black Sweat is moving up a bit on the Hit charts, but stalled at Urban. Call those local stations and request the song and maybe it can crack the top 100 next week, combine that with some strong sales and iTunes numbers and it could go top 40 yet.

Mainstream Hit Radio

TW #121 LW #132

Mainstream Urban

TW #88 LW #86

CHR/POP

TW #149 LW #164