how many??

i need to know!!

just give me a ballpark, guesstimate.

2 or 3... maybe 5 songs total...

hmmm.. ok we know the albums

Prince said in 1998 on Tavis Smiley show the unreleased is "upwards of a thousand"

plus all the "live versions"

hmm?

maybe 4,000 songs,intstrumentals,live versions,unedited versions,unreleased version

does that sound right?

4,000

* the problem is like Jimi Hendrex he only was around for a few years and a couple studio albums.. BUt there is so many Live Versions from everywhere.. that they still put out new stuff..

so maybe even more with Prince then 4,000??.. ANY concert that was ever taped is a "different live version"

maybe 4,000 songs,intstrumentals,live versions,unedited versions,unreleased version

does that sound right?

4,000

i'd say more than 4,000...but then again i don't know.

wallychamp said:

I once read that Prince was the second most bootleged artist in the world. So god knows how much stuff is out there.

I think the question that U should be asking is, not counting the released stuff how many songs do U think Prince has written and our circulating on boots...On that question, I would think in the ballpark of a 1,000 or so...Aloha~

One thousand is a good bet. that's 50 complete songs per year + plus some mindless jamming, yeah he can stretch to that. It's still an accomplishment.

althom said:

who was the first>

Well, The Beatles... but that equals only with the different available titles not different context (remember that bootlegs can also refer to all kinds of unauthorized releases). Prince has definitely more studio outtakes circulating than any other artist and he's got a whopping catalog of live boots released under his name. (www.guide2prince.org)

Actually it's still unclear whether Prince or Frank Zappa is the 2nd most bootlegged artist, but the case with Zappa is a bit different since he actually released bootlegs HIMSELF.

Raspberry said:

Probably the Beatles.

ballpark figure of Prince's total songs?: a shitload.

Raspberry said:

I think it was actually Led Zepland. They looked at all the bootleg companies and worked out how many cd's they made of each artist. But prince was definatley second.