i know what he's trying to say with that line but it just seems so nonsensical. radio is a business. he's not too far gone to see that yet. if he gives radio what it needs they will play his music.

things like youtube and hip-hop blogs really function the way he is lamenting radio doesn't. and he tries to sue those kinds of community resources into the ground. spontaneous social cohesion can't be controlled by a mastermind producer.

i think it's this model of the mega-rich superstar that works at cross-purposes to artists maintaining control of their work, longterm financial benefit from their work, and even their sanity. there are a lot of musicians none of us will have ever heard of who, leveraging the internet, make a decent living from their work and are beholden to no one. in a lot of ways prince helped lay the groundwork for that, at least as a form of inspiration, but it's really the inertia of the long tail that makes it inevitable. record companies have become irrelevant more as a function of how society has changed than through any real fault of their own. (much as how they became successful as a byproduct of material scarcity, which was likewise more a confluence of coincidental factors rather than any real vision on the part of corporations).

prince feels like he hasn't been paid what he's worth. hopefully, the fact that we keep showing up for his albums and websites will get through to him someday.

PRINCE will never have another radio hit plain and simple, he will get some play, but lets be real, here are the songs that have garnered him play in the last 10+ years.

SomeBody's SOmebody
Call My Name
Satisfied
Somewhere on Earth
U're Gonna C me

3 of the last 4 are the same song. Prince cant get any wide play anymore, and the play he gets are for "typical" ballads that are all in the same predictable "prince" mode.

Not true I've heard way more songs then that on the radio here in the last 10 years... Like Black Sweat, Future Baby Mama, Musicology, & most recently Turn me loose(which he should have put on his new set) & some Bria songs like Here I come.

PRINCE will never have another radio hit plain and simple, he will get some play, but lets be real, here are the songs that have garnered him play in the last 10+ years.

SomeBody's SOmebody
Call My Name
Satisfied
Somewhere on Earth
U're Gonna C me

3 of the last 4 are the same song. Prince cant get any wide play anymore, and the play he gets are for "typical" ballads that are all in the same predictable "prince" mode.

Not true I've heard way more songs then that on the radio here in the last 10 years... Like Black Sweat, Future Baby Mama, Musicology, & most recently Turn me loose(which he should have put on his new set) & some Bria songs like Here I come.

Not true I've heard way more songs then that on the radio here in the last 10 years... Like Black Sweat, Future Baby Mama, Musicology, & most recently Turn me loose(which he should have put on his new set) & some Bria songs like Here I come.

Very Localized once again, as far as him hitting big stations everywhere with something thats NOT a ballad in the RB ac mode like FBM, Call My Name, U make My Sunshine etc...its not going to happen, its that simple. You will get spot play on Rb stations in big markets, but it will be very minimal, Call My Name and FBM and Satisfied, its all the same mode, garnering same stations and same audience, which is fine, but you will NOT see Prince get a widespread across the board played song, like a 4ever or Dreamer, the only POSSIBLE way for him to get somewhat wide play is with the "phoned in" prince-like ballad

radio sucks anyway, only thing good on radio these days are talk shows.

i know what he's trying to say with that line but it just seems so nonsensical. radio is a business. he's not too far gone to see that yet. if he gives radio what it needs they will play his music.

things like youtube and hip-hop blogs really function the way he is lamenting radio doesn't. and he tries to sue those kinds of community resources into the ground. spontaneous social cohesion can't be controlled by a mastermind producer.

i think it's this model of the mega-rich superstar that works at cross-purposes to artists maintaining control of their work, longterm financial benefit from their work, and even their sanity. there are a lot of musicians none of us will have ever heard of who, leveraging the internet, make a decent living from their work and are beholden to no one. in a lot of ways prince helped lay the groundwork for that, at least as a form of inspiration, but it's really the inertia of the long tail that makes it inevitable. record companies have become irrelevant more as a function of how society has changed than through any real fault of their own. (much as how they became successful as a byproduct of material scarcity, which was likewise more a confluence of coincidental factors rather than any real vision on the part of corporations).

prince feels like he hasn't been paid what he's worth. hopefully, the fact that we keep showing up for his albums and websites will get through to him someday.

PRINCE will never have another radio hit plain and simple, he will get some play, but lets be real, here are the songs that have garnered him play in the last 10+ years.

SomeBody's SOmebody
Call My Name
Satisfied
Somewhere on Earth
U're Gonna C me

3 of the last 4 are the same song. Prince cant get any wide play anymore, and the play he gets are for "typical" ballads that are all in the same predictable "prince" mode.

I'm pretty stoked about the #1 spot. Not that it makes the album any better but some people pay attention to that stuff as far as what they choose to listen to, so hopefully some other folks will pick it up as well with the publication of these sales numbers.

Every time I look @ the chart though in my RS it's always the lamest 'artists' topping the charts. btw, RS gave LOtUSFLOW3R ***, MPLSoUND ***1/2 & Elixer got ** if anyone cares or didn't know.

All I Know Is:

186,000 x $11.98 = $2,228,280.00

Now how much of that is Prince's Cut???

it almost certainly cost more than that to produce those three albums.