PR is a "given"...

1999 is a "maybe"...

SOTT is a "must"...

Dirty Mind is a "have to"...

TGE is a "I wish"!

Outside of that...I am not sure what we profitable for WB...

The ones IMO will NEVER be remastered...

For You

Prince

Contoversy (should be though)

ATWIAD

Parade

Lovesexy

Batman

All albums in the 90's and 00's

warning2all said:

Just Purple Rain.

I'll consider myself lucky if we even get that!

For You ---->>> Lovesexy.......

With 1 bonus disk each album...




Please, I'm praying for that...

Prince can't be bothered with clearing remasters what with his burgeoning coffee mug business, endless tweaks to Josh and Hannah's record, and twitter chicks hitting his phone up night and day. I'm sure from Prince's perspective it's a silly proposition anyway. Dirty Mind and SOTT? How you going to remaster albums that never really got mastered in the first place?

It had better be more than just Purple Rain!! I want fresh remasters of all the 80s albums,up to Lovesexy.

SoulAlive said:

no frigger knows so why ask

honer said:

no frigger knows so why ask

honer said:

no frigger knows so why ask

That's not true. I'm confident that a few org posters have seen the contract...

Purple Rain, and a specially created disc called "Tony M" it edits out all of Prince's annoying music and singing, and just puts on Tony's excellent rapping on the disc in crystal clear remastered audio.

Oh, I got that backwards. Could they edit Tony out?

If WB and Prince are smart they will release them all at once just as The Beatles/Capitol have done. A major boxset (both vinyl, CD and (virtual) digital releases (seperately of course)) containing all of his WB albums all remastered and repackaged as well as releasing them individually to give people (casual fans) a chance to pick and choose.

This capitalises on the release as a major event and also gets people buying on the heels of that marketing push rather than releasing them in stages and letting momentum fizzle out over a relatively short period of time.

njemelbourne said:

If WB and Prince are smart they will release them all at once just as The Beatles/Capitol have done. A major boxset (both vinyl, CD and (virtual) digital releases (seperately of course)) containing all of his WB albums all remastered and repackaged as well as releasing them individually to give people (casual fans) a chance to pick and choose.

This capitalises on the release as a major event and also gets people buying on the heels of that marketing push rather than releasing them in stages and letting momentum fizzle out over a relatively short period of time.

The boxset is an idea I have posted on several threads on here, and I also cited the Beatles set as the base for my reasoning. Releasing every single disc up to 1996 would not make sense. Save for PR and 1999, individual discs won't sell that much. The symbol album is a great example, it may have sold a million upon release, but nobody is going to rush to buy it. You can forget about anything after Come...

Plus...another big point. People like to praise Dirty Mind...but it only sold 500,000....and how many of those copies sold after Purple Rain caused people to go back and buy the old albums? Around The World In A Day at 3 million is his third best selling release, but a large portion of those buyers were Purple Rain bandwagoners who were put off by Prince's change in direction, and a lot of those people simply jumped off forever with Parade....

Yes, there are diehards who would buy every single release if there was no box set, but a big box set makes the most sense from a profit standpoint...with individual releases for maybe the top 5 selling individual albums...and even then, they would have to be stocked with extras to get many to buy the same release for a second time.

And I will close this by saying....as I always do, just go to the 4.99 bin at Best Buy, and look at the major artist remasters in huge stacks not moving product....remasters sold great from 1991-2005...but since then, the sales have been going lower and lower...

Prince & Warners missed the boat a long time ago on this, and are simply hoping there are a few physical product buyers left...but there won't be a line outside the few places that still sell cds to go buy a Controversy remaster....I will, of course....but who else will?

From what i heard...WB is working on an Anthology Box set!

We will C??

love2thenines2003 said:

From what i heard...WB is working on an Anthology Box set!

We will C??

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Every Prince album, including side projects, would be profitable. Now WB being a major they may not be interested below a certain margin of profit because they're used to doing big bucks, but profitable in an absolute, yes.

Once again people tend to forget how many obscure albums are being remastered and/or reissued on smaller labels every year. If A.C. and Fruit At The Bottom are profitable, so would every Prince album/side project.

But maybe past the big ones a smaller label would be more appropriate than WB to do the job.

Plenty of other artists catalog is remastered/rereleased that sell far less than Prince.

stillwaiting said:

Around The World In A Day at 3 million is his third best selling release ...

Didn't Batman and Diamons & Pearls outsell ATWIAD?

EDIT: My mistake, You are right. ATWIAD is his third best selling album after Purple Rain and 1999.

[Edited 7/26/14 16:28pm]

tobydavies said:

stillwaiting said:

Around The World In A Day at 3 million is his third best selling release ...

Didn't Batman and Diamons & Pearls outsell ATWIAD?

EDIT: My mistake, You are right. ATWIAD is his third best selling album after Purple Rain and 1999.

[Edited 7/26/14 16:28pm]

Surely D&P sold more than that?!? More like 6 million.

leecaldon said:

stillwaiting said:

njemelbourne said:

If WB and Prince are smart they will release them all at once just as The Beatles/Capitol have done. A major boxset (both vinyl, CD and (virtual) digital releases (seperately of course)) containing all of his WB albums all remastered and repackaged as well as releasing them individually to give people (casual fans) a chance to pick and choose.

This capitalises on the release as a major event and also gets people buying on the heels of that marketing push rather than releasing them in stages and letting momentum fizzle out over a relatively short period of time.

The boxset is an idea I have posted on several threads on here, and I also cited the Beatles set as the base for my reasoning. Releasing every single disc up to 1996 would not make sense. Save for PR and 1999, individual discs won't sell that much. The symbol album is a great example, it may have sold a million upon release, but nobody is going to rush to buy it. You can forget about anything after Come...

Plus...another big point. People like to praise Dirty Mind...but it only sold 500,000....and how many of those copies sold after Purple Rain caused people to go back and buy the old albums? Around The World In A Day at 3 million is his third best selling release, but a large portion of those buyers were Purple Rain bandwagoners who were put off by Prince's change in direction, and a lot of those people simply jumped off forever with Parade....

Yes, there are diehards who would buy every single release if there was no box set, but a big box set makes the most sense from a profit standpoint...with individual releases for maybe the top 5 selling individual albums...and even then, they would have to be stocked with extras to get many to buy the same release for a second time.

And I will close this by saying....as I always do, just go to the 4.99 bin at Best Buy, and look at the major artist remasters in huge stacks not moving product....remasters sold great from 1991-2005...but since then, the sales have been going lower and lower...

Prince & Warners missed the boat a long time ago on this, and are simply hoping there are a few physical product buyers left...but there won't be a line outside the few places that still sell cds to go buy a Controversy remaster....I will, of course....but who else will?

In a wrecka stow near where I live, I've been standing behind someone buying the Dirty Mind vinyl the last two times I've been there. Coincidence, yes, but I was happily surprised each time.

[Edited 7/27/14 4:02am]

1999, Batman and D&P outsold ATWIAD.

Source: http://prince.org/msg/7/330235

databank said:

1999, Batman and D&P outsold ATWIAD.

Source: http://prince.org/msg/7/330235

I don't know where the guy in that thread got his figure's from. They don't seem to match the sales shown here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_albums_discography

tobydavies said:

databank said:

1999, Batman and D&P outsold ATWIAD.

Source: http://prince.org/msg/7/330235

I don't know where the guy in that thread got his figure's from. They don't seem to match the sales shown here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_albums_discography

Thedance is not "some guy", he's a valued contributor to this forum. The wiki figures are accurate but far from being precise (going gold doesn't mean u're not 10 copies away from getting platinum) and are only showing the figures from the US (and occasionally UK and Canada) and actually there happens to be many other countries in the world.

You may be interested in this one wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ign_states

I noticed all of his albums were removed from the hd tracks site after his deal with wb.Hopefully he'll release those albums in hd himself.

databank said:

Thedance is not "some guy", he's a valued contributor to this forum...

You may be interested in this one wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ign_states

I didn't say "some guy", I said "guy" which is just a turn of phrase, and there was nothing derogatory meant by it, though you felt the need to jump to his defence.

And I'm aware that there are more many countries in the world.

So get off your high horse, you patronising knobend.

[Edited 7/27/14 11:25am]