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All the Details : Prince Estate, Sony Ink Distribution Deal for 35 Previously Released Albums & more
The titles from 1978-2015 will be re-released via the Legacy Recordings imprint.Prince's estate and Sony Music Entertainment announced on Wednesday (June 27) they have signed an exclusive distribution agreement that covers 35 of the iconic musician's previously released albums. Under the new arrangement, the Prince catalog included in the deal will be distributed by Legacy Recordings. Worldwide rights begin immediately for Prince's album releases from 1995-2010, with the others following in years to come. Among the titles included in the first phase are The Gold Experience (1995), Emancipation (1996), Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (1999), The Rainbow Children (2001) and 3121 (2006), as well as Musicology (2004) and Planet Earth (2007), which were originally release via Sony through Columbia.
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That's great! | |
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Press release: https://www.prnewswire.co...72798.html Paisley Park is in your heart
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This is really interesting! So Sony is also getting WB stuff, but not Purple Rain or Graffiti Bridge.
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This sounds great but am hesitant to get to excited....it is Sony after all The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.
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Got an eyes on Reissues from Legacy Label (Sony) 4 other Artists....sorry but i'm not excited at all at all for what i saw !!! [Edited 6/27/18 7:15am] | |
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Hopefully this means we will start getting true Vault releases, and not garbage like Piano And Microphone 83. "That's when stars collide. When there's space for what u want, and ur heart is open wide." | |
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I wonder how much this deal is for? Hopefully WAY over $30 Million. "That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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I really hope this includes vinyl releases of those albums Check out The Collector's Guide to Prince on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/p...4ldzxwlEuy | |
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So we'll be waiting a few years for 1999 Deluxe then.
Not really getting the negativity for Sony archive reissues. There have been some great ones and the Legacy issues are usually remastered by the Senior Mastering Engineer at Sony, Vic Anesini. Can't say I've heard anything remotely brickwalled that he's done - check out his Sly & The Family Stone remastering that he's done. He oversaw the best sounding CD reissue of There's A Riot that I've heard - and that's no audiophile album by any stretch of the imagination.
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Really hope their Dotted their I's and crossed their T's on this one! I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore... | |
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jjam said: So we'll be waiting a few years for 1999 Deluxe then.
Not really getting the negativity for Sony archive reissues. There have been some great ones and the Legacy issues are usually remastered by the Senior Mastering Engineer at Sony, Vic Anesini. Can't say I've heard anything remotely brickwalled that he's done - check out his Sly & The Family Stone remastering that he's done. He oversaw the best sounding CD reissue of There's A Riot that I've heard - and that's no audiophile album by any stretch of the imagination.
We won’t have to necessarily wait. WB will still have the rights until 2021 so it’s possible they could do it. | |
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So by my count, the 12 WB releases under Sony are: 4U, Prince, DM, Controversy, 1999, ATWIAD, SOTT, Lovesexy, D&P, Symbol, Come and Chaos. PR, Parade, Batman and Graffiti are excluded as WB licenced soundtracks. Black & OF4S must have been in the closing deal and fallen to NPG (guessing) . | |
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So I guess The Gold Experience will be first up. What isn't mentioned in the article is whether we'll see unreleased stuff on these reissues. The Gold Experience certainly serves to be an expanded release. | |
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Militant said: This is really interesting! So Sony is also getting WB stuff, but not Purple Rain or Graffiti Bridge.
Or Parade. But that was pretty much already speculated from the info we got about the WB deal, that eventually all rights would revert back to a Prince except for the soundtrack stuff. | |
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SquirrelMeat said: So by my count, the 12 WB releases under Sony are: 4U, Prince, DM, Controversy, 1999, ATWIAD, SOTT, Lovesexy, D&P, Symbol, Come and Chaos. PR, Parade, Batman and Graffiti are excluded as WB licenced soundtracks. Black & OF4S must have been in the closing deal and fallen to NPG (guessing) The Black Album was always a one-off contract with WB. I have a feeling we won’t be getting a reissue of that, though I bet Sony is gonna try. | |
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jjam said: So I guess The Gold Experience will be first up. What isn't mentioned in the article is whether we'll see unreleased stuff on these reissues. The Gold Experience certainly serves to be an expanded release. My speculation is that the unreleased stuff (at least the WB years) will be released on WB over the next few years, until 2021. Perhaps we won’t see a contract for other unreleased stuff until after that. | |
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The deal DOES NOT include Vault recordings. [Edited 6/27/18 8:03am] "That mountain top situation is not really what it's all cracked up 2 B when ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |
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. . . Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.
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Maybe Sony can get rid of the awful album version of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World and replace it with the EP version. I don't quite know what Prince was thinking including that mix on the album. | |
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Sony may not want that stuff. Yes they are "essential" to Prince diehards but the casual fan? Hell, I'm a huge Prince fan and don't think they're "essential" at all. | |
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Maybe they can remaster it too. Talk about brickwalled!!! | |
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. . [Edited 6/27/18 8:31am] Friends don't let friends clap on 1 and 3.
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Kares said:
. Thanks for the positivity. It would appear to be a natural fit for Sony to add the Paisley Park label catalog and Prince-produced albums (The Time, Madhouse, Sheila, V6) at a later date. | |
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