errant said:

Se7en said:

IstenSzek said:

if it's ever going to happen, him getting anywhere near those sales figures again, it won't be

because of anything he or the recordcompany does, it will simply be a fluke hit. they tend to

come along once every decade or so for some artists. who knows, maybe some more tunes

on tvshows will push one of his old songs back to #1 out of the blue, like it seems to do for

some groups these days. but who cares anymore? like you said, Adele type numbers are a

rare thing for anyone these days, let alone prince. i don't really understand why people here

keep mentioning "Supernatural" either, how long has it been since that album? i'm sure that

Santana managed to sell some decent numbers since but he hasn't had a hit album like that

anymore, or a hit single as big as those.

Santana's popularity with the Supernatural album was partially/majorly influenced by his guest stars. Rob Thomas was huge at the time, and he wrote "Smooth", the biggest song from the album. So really, Santana road the wave of Rob Thomas' popularity straight to #1. I doubt the general public could name more than 2 songs off that album.

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Santana took this same approach on other albums too, like with Michelle Branch and with Steven Tyler and had great success with those collabos too.

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Do we want Prince doing duets with Pink, Rhianna, Drake, Bieber, etc? Hell no. But, he tried this approach on Rave with Sheryl Crow, Gwen Stefani, Ani DiFranco, Chuck D, etc. and it didn't work even though there were some top names at the time on that album. In addition, none of the songs on Rave are as strong as "Smooth". I'd love to say otherwise but that's the truth.

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As much as people like to say that songs become hits because of massive PR campaigns, it's just not always or entirely true. Smooth was a hit because it was great.

RAVE is possibly PRINCE at his worst, i mean a track or two on there, but overall that whole era really was a disaster, mainly that also didnt move because PRINCE was not promoting it, he went on TRL in front of 12 year olds and lectured them?? He seemed totally not interested in this album and treated it like it was CHAOS and DISORDER and honestly i think he even has played more of Chaos than the stuff on this record. Also the material was not there, if you look at who PRINCE got for his record, NONE was commercial outside of Stefani and that song was going to be a single but her label pulled it back because they felt it would get mixed up with the new No Doubt album and single, so that was scratched. As for Sheryl Crow you couldnt even hear her on that song, Ani Difranco is and never was a "radio" artist and though that is the best on this album, that didnt matter, and CHUCK D well he was lecturing and kids didnt want that, it would be like the new LL record that has all the guests on it like Eddie Van Halen, Chuck D, Brad Paisley, etc.... good album went nowhere. I think we can all at least say and agree that RAVE was way down the list of his work.