THe queasy feeling is that our treasured vault music is being touted around to people who don't necessarily have an interest in anything but the bottom line, may not have had anything to do with Prince etc.

The upside would be that the bottom line means things WILL get released. But the next worry is, what form will the releases take? Will there be mortifying remixes and guest appearances? Could the people on here deal with that, if the originals were released alongside them, if that was the only way for there to be enough commercial opportunity for them to be released at all?

leecaldon said:

THe queasy feeling is that our treasured vault music is being touted around to people who don't necessarily have an interest in anything but the bottom line, may not have had anything to do with Prince etc.

The upside would be that the bottom line means things WILL get released. But the next worry is, what form will the releases take? Will there be mortifying remixes and guest appearances? Could the people on here deal with that, if the originals were released alongside them, if that was the only way for there to be enough commercial opportunity for them to be released at all?

I hate to see whats coming

Isnt everything in The Vault analog?

Wont it be costly to transfer to digital?

I dont know. Just asking.

DiamondsnPearls44 said:

Ingela said:

Hopefullly rumors and nothing more.

Ingela said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

petalthecat said:

It just doesn't ring true to me. I can't see the estate wanting to give up any of P's music rights. Maybe someone mentioned they would need a distribution deal to get the music released to a large audience and someone in the media has got the wrong end of the stick as always.

Whoever wrote the article at Billboard probaly only got some of the information correct.

I would think that the estate is looking for someone to distrube and market the music much like Prince did when he had one off deals with lables. The estate is not going to sell the entire catalogue for 35 million. They are looking for someone to help get this massive amount of music out the public while the estate retain ownership and the rights to the music. If anyone offers the estate 35 million they might as well press their own CDs and stream their own music without the assistance of a major lable.

derrick31 said:

Ingela said:

It's a good thing. The family isn't a corporation with the capital expertise to manage it all. And it seems they need the money. There is a huge irony in a man fighting so hard for something and dies only to see most likely get what he fought for in the first place. We all die. If Prince was alive, it would be a different story, but if it's not important for the family to keep, then I see no problem. It will be in better hands. Let's remember, it was his own sister who sued the brother that most likely helped her financially for credit on a song. Again, he fought her in court and won. But in the end she got it all. Ats much as she could. It's all good. [Edited 10/12/16 16:23pm]

They don't NEED the money. They WANT the money. Everyone is looking to exploit the little guy's death. Sad😞

Bills have to paid people. It is not about explortation.

rogifan said:

Hmm...not sure what to think aside from $35M being awfully low.

Only $35 million for the contents of the vault? WTF? ...this feels like shit

Look at this article.

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/97080?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

The vault is understood to contain thousands of hours of music recordered over 4 decades, but the report says that the estate has yet to begin cataloguing it's contents properly, so it is unknown exactly what the vault contains. Some of the material may be possibly owned already by various record labels he had thru out the years.

AND a deluxe edition of Purple Rain may be released in the next few months.

PennyPurple said:

Look at this article.

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/97080?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

The vault is understood to contain thousands of hours of music recordered over 4 decades, but the report says that the estate has yet to begin cataloguing it's contents properly, so it is unknown exactly what the vault contains. Some of the material may be possibly owned already by various record labels he had thru out the years.

AND a deluxe edition of Purple Rain may be released in the next few months.

Wrong all of his deals with labels were one offs after he left WB. He even had his own label He was not in any long term contracts after he left WB. These journalist these days are so lazy.

anangellooksdown said:

I understand there are bills, but selling the rights to the very thing that Prince would probably most want those bills to cover/support? Gee. I'm guessing that music is as valuable to Prince as PP is - even from where Prince is now. I'm a little concerned that Londell didn't just come out and say that the music won't be sold. Correcting a story and squashing it completely could be two different things....(?)

I think they are looking for someone to market and distrube the music which way he did not squash it completly. I don't think they are trying to do a fire sale.

Why the fuck doesn't Londell release an actual statement and let us fans know what the hell is going on. He's an educated man.

Jesus, it's like Prince is still alive and we're being drip fed cryptic bullshit and nonsensical tweets!!

rap said:

Why the fuck doesn't Londell release an actual statement and let us fans know what the hell is going on. He's an educated man.

Jesus, it's like Prince is still alive and we're being drip fed cryptic bullshit and nonsensical tweets!!

He's carrying on the tradition...

purplethunder3121 said:

rap said:

Why the fuck doesn't Londell release an actual statement and let us fans know what the hell is going on. He's an educated man.

Jesus, it's like Prince is still alive and we're being drip fed cryptic bullshit and nonsensical tweets!!

He's carrying on the tradition...

I wish he wouldn't.

whats this world coming to when "billboard" cant be trusted??? this situation is not good...what exactly is Londell claiming is incorrect???

Kara said:

Mumio said:

I had sent a tweet to Londell asking if this was true along with a link to the article. He tweeted back "This is absurd!" About a minute later his response along with my tweet and everyone else who had retweeted disappeared. Can't find it anywhere so he must have deleted. Guess we'll see what happens next.

Maybe it is Billboard that we can trust................

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

Isnt everything in The Vault analog?

Wont it be costly to transfer to digital?

I dont know. Just asking.

Not everything, Prince changed to digital some time ago.

purplethunder3121 said:

rap said:

Why the fuck doesn't Londell release an actual statement and let us fans know what the hell is going on. He's an educated man.

Jesus, it's like Prince is still alive and we're being drip fed cryptic bullshit and nonsensical tweets!!

He's carrying on the tradition...

so it would seem