Cool to hear any new music from any source at this point.

Also reported by Rolling Stone. Release date: 2019

https://www.rollingstone....um-w520211

"It’s noted in the release that the Prince estate’s partnership with Tidal “'does not involve any of Prince’s music catalogue that is subject to prior agreements with Warner Brothers Records.'”

Sounds to me like this will be non-Warner Bros era material.

[Edited 5/11/18 11:26am]

so now if the siblings could release something ..we get 3 cds ..

The Prince Estate and global music and entertainment platform TIDAL confirm plans to debut highly anticipated new Prince music exclusively via the TIDAL streaming service. The new album will contain previously unreleased music sourced from Prince's vast archive of Vault recordings.

The album – expected to be released in 2019 – will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days and will be available for download seven days after its debut. A global physical release is planned via The Prince Estate following the exclusive digital premiere on TIDAL. The new release marks a continuation of Prince's 2015 partnership with TIDAL, which resulted in the exclusive debut of HITnRUN Phase One and HITnRUN Phase Two via the streaming service. This concludes the previously unresolved legal matters between The Prince Estate and TIDAL.

The Prince Estate and Jay-Z are working together on the song selection for the album. "Our only goal is to share Prince's music with his fans as he wanted. After thoughtful and honest conversation with him, he chose TIDAL as his partner for HITnRUN Phase One and HITnRUN Phase Two, and we will continue to respect and honor Prince's enduring legacy and wishes with this new collection," Jay-Z said. Troy Carter, speaking on behalf of The Prince Estate, echoed those sentiments, noting "I'm very pleased this is resolved, and we get to honor the relationship between Prince and TIDAL with this album. We look forward to fans hearing the new music and experiencing the genius of Prince."

The album partnership with TIDAL does not involve any of Prince's music catalogue that is subject to prior agreements with Warner Brothers Records, Inc. The agreement between TIDAL and The Prince Estate was approved on May 9, 2018 by the Probate Court overseeing The Prince Estate.

There's the full press release.

So we know:

- This is vault material from the post Warner era.

- The estate and Jay-Z are working on song selection for the album.

- 2019 release date.

- Stream exclusive to Tidal for 14 days.

- Available for digital purchase after 7 days.

- The estate is going to handle the physical release globally.

- The legal matters between the Estate and Tidal have been settled.

[Edited 5/11/18 11:40am]

I Hope this is separate from the Sept 28th release.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I Hope this is separate from the Sept 28th release.

It is. That is being handle by Warner Bros and will contain WB era vault material.

Strive said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I Hope this is separate from the Sept 28th release.

That's my question, also -- but I'm sure it is.

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But the bad news is this: The judge approved the short-term Tidal deal over the objections of SNJ who claimed that this was not a good enough deal. SNJ had been given the opportunity to come up with a higher bidder, but could not/did not.

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Obviously, the infighting has harmed the estate's future.

purplemist7777 said:

purplemist7777 said:

So how does the settling of Tidals steaming rights on a limited number of P’s albums for a limited number of years end up with Jay Z diving into the vaults and being involved with a new album release? Doesn’t make sense to me

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This is a short-term, one-album deal only.

PRNelson said:

rogifan said:

So after 7 days it will be available for download on Tidal and after 14 days available on other streaming services?

what they mean is a week before it is on tidal it will leak and we will all have it anyway

OperatingThetan said:

OperatingThetan said:

rogifan said:

So after 7 days it will be available for download on Tidal and after 14 days available on other streaming services?

From the sound of it. It will be stream only on Tidal for the first seven days, stream/available to purchase digitally on Tidal for another week and then it will have a wide release after that. So I guess other streaming services and digital stores.

With the estate handing a HITNRUN style store for physical copies. Unless they partner up with someone, I don't think it will be getting a release in traditional stores.

OperatingThetan said:

A few more details here than answer many of the questions above: http://variety.com/2018/b...202807371/

that was messing up is this better?

http://variety.com/2018/b...202807371/

Strive said:

rogifan said:

So after 7 days it will be available for download on Tidal and after 14 days available on other streaming services?

From the sound of it. It will be stream only on Tidal for the first seven days, stream/available to purchase digitally on Tidal for another week and then it will have a wide release after that. So I guess other streaming services and digital stores.

With the estate handing a HITNRUN style store for physical copies. Unless they partner up with someone, I don't think it will be getting a release in traditional stores.

they are saying a Global physical release...

PRNelson said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

they are saying a Global physical release...

Shipping worldwide from their online store is techincally a global release.

OperatingThetan said:

might be that they are going to go through the very latest material he was recording
and put those tracks together?

like, i can imagine that prince probably promised J another HitNRun volume or said
something to the effect that he was going to do another one.

so this could be an album with 'free urself' and more of the latest songs on it, like,
i don't know, frida kahlo and rumeta. or were they all for Black is The New Black?
yet, that was more of a jazzy funk fusion album to be released on bluenote wasn't
it?

but to me it seems likely that tidal wants to release the last thing prince was busy
working on and if it isn't completed they will 'compile' it from what they can find on
the mixing boards and the laptops and whatnot.

they're getting help from the estate which means they have access. but i doubt the
estate will allow tidal/j access to everything in the post 1996 vault catalogue to just
pick n mix from.

tidal are saying they want to honour their deal with prince and put out another set
conform his wishes. that would be the newest material. (for instance HitnRun 3, if
such a thing exists or was in the works etc).

picking from the 96 vault at will to compile an album is not along those lines.

but people have been saying that it was 'prince's wish' about so many things these
days. so let's wait and see.

personally, i would love to have at least one last time the excitement of hearing the
latest thing prince was coming up with, even if it was only 70% finished.

PRNelson said:

Makes me sad to know so many hands have hold of his work. If anything is released I would prefer it to be compiled considerately by an individual or individuals of expert opinion and great knowledge surrounding his work. Releases which are sympathetic to eras and work he was producing during that time. Jay z choosing songs to put on an album? Man. His legacy deserves more.

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I don't trust any of these people.