HatrinaHaterwitz said:

daingermouz2020 said:

What's the purpose of re releasing albums. I'd prefer they release 35 unreleased albums.

Exactly! I'll be damned if I'm buying music again, that I bought a few times over already.

1. Making the albums more available

2. New fans

3. You know you gon' buy 'em again

bboy87 said:

bboy87 said:

RODSERLING said:

djThunderfunk said:

I guess you missed the part where I explained that I don't want (or need) it enough to order it and pay shipping charges, only to find out when I get it if it really is tracked.

Every copy for 15 years has been tracked? Cool. I haven't seen many copies of that album in a store in the last 15 years and the ones I did see did not state on the cover that they were tracked. And again, since I made my own, I don't want or need a tracked copy bad enough to buy one and wait till I get home to find out if it's tracked or not.

When I see it, in a store, for retail or less, AND, I know for sure it is tracked, I will buy it. Until then, I have the original CD, I have my tracked CDR and I don't even play those... I play my digital rip.

You are a very complicated Man living in à strange World. Every Lovesexy cd is now tracked, no need to mention it on the cover.

"Complicated"...

Seems pretty simple to me.

RODSERLING said:

bboy87 said:

1. Making the albums more available

2. New fans

3. You know you gon' buy 'em again

I highly doubt it. Look at the sales of Purple deluxe : very low. And it contains not only the b sides, but 75 minutes of unreleased music. Many orgers didn t buy and Will never buy it : I even made a thread about it à few weeks ago. Same opinions in France at the fansite Schkopi. . Because of these people, PRr deluxe wasn t à success, and So the estate and Warner were disappointed to the point of not wanting to release deluxe éditions anymore. . The post 1993 albums were all critical and commercial failures. It would have been great if thèse albums were widely available when Prince did, or shortly After. Now the hype about his death is long gone. . I think the only for them making money is to release lives on Vod from this era, with à perfect image.

Is that what's been said or what you're speculating?

feeluupp said:

That's cause you live in Europe...

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Did somebody live under a rock for a few decades?

We live on a globalised planet.

For music we have imports going around the globe.

If you really needed a tracked Lovesexy CD you could have gotten one as easily as Europeans can get stuff from the USA.

Nowadays things could be different due to the recent tarriffs.

udo said:

feeluupp said:

That's cause you live in Europe...

.

Did somebody live under a rock for a few decades?

We live on a globalised planet.

For music we have imports going around the globe.

If you really needed a tracked Lovesexy CD you could have gotten one as easily as Europeans can get stuff from the USA.

Nowadays things could be different due to the recent tarriffs.

Naw, don't just pick one sentence in my post to point something out and neglect the rest. Re read the post...

Has nothing to do with what you just wrote.

Rod didn't know Lovesexy wasn't tracked on CD just because he lives in Europe and it was released as a tracked CD there... I simply stated Lovesexy wasn't originally released as a tracked CD in the U.S. back in '88 as Prince originally intended it to be.

Strive said:

Will people stop saying that Purple Rain Deluxe didn't sell well? It sold nearly 50k copies in the US the first week and over 100k total. That's really good for a reissue in today's market. These won't sell as many as that but there is a market for his work and most of this has been out of print for a long, long time. If you're expecting any posthumous Prince release to sell a million+ the first week out, you're outta your mind. Nobody's doing those type of numbers. The recent reissue of Sgt. Pepper sold 75k its first week and that was enough to get it to #3 on Billboard 200. [Edited 6/29/18 0:22am]

Only ROD will point that out, as usual...

Do you all remember his thread back in 2014, go search it under his user profile. He wrote that no new Prince album will ever make the Billboard 200 again... Yet every single released album so far did...

love2thenines2003 said:

From contact at Sony No album in physical format at this stage , only Digital in the weeks 2 come....physical releases for few albums only not before at least 1 year from here...unreleased stuff not in WB catalogue is out of the deal at this stage, after 2021...all the unreleased stuff from the WBR era can't be released by Sony without WB agreement!

Your "contact" at Sony... Right...

feeluupp said:

love2thenines2003 said:

From contact at Sony No album in physical format at this stage , only Digital in the weeks 2 come....physical releases for few albums only not before at least 1 year from here...unreleased stuff not in WB catalogue is out of the deal at this stage, after 2021...all the unreleased stuff from the WBR era can't be released by Sony without WB agreement!

Your "contact" at Sony... Right...

It's true...

This information comes from the boss of Sony Legacy Recordings France; no physical outputs for a year or more, only digital for now.

feeluupp said:

in other words:

jjam said:

databank said:

Some of those are still, and are likely to remain, WB property (The Time, the 6's and Sheila in particular).

Most of the other Paisley Park label releases belong to the estate, though.

Another forum member Mintchip has mentioned the following in the Associated Artists forum re the recent usage of Vanity 6's "Nasty Girl" on TV - Interesting credit on Rupaul's Drag Race: "Courtesy of the Prince Estate".

That's odd. I have no explaination for this.

I know from the copyright notices of their albums on streaming sites that the rights for The Time and Sheila E. haven't reverted to Prince in 2014.

The 6's I cannot tell for sure as they're not on streaming services. It's possible that Prince somehow managed to get the masters back for those. I just assumed he hadn't.

udo said:

feeluupp said:

That's cause you live in Europe...

.

Did somebody live under a rock for a few decades?

We live on a globalised planet.

For music we have imports going around the globe.

If you really needed a tracked Lovesexy CD you could have gotten one as easily as Europeans can get stuff from the USA.

Nowadays things could be different due to the recent tarriffs.

Yeah, I've bought MANY European imports. They've ALWAYS been expensive... And as I keep explaining, I don't "really need" a tracked Lovesexy, BUT, if I see one CHEAP, at a STORE, and KNOW FOR SURE IT IS TRACKED, then, and only then, will I feel compelled to buy it.


Sheeeesh. I guess it is "complicated".

I just want to know the specific 35 titles - count is just slightly off no matter how you try it.

At a minimum it'll all be out there streaming for sure - kept alive and available - that's a good thing !

Well done the estate, get as much money as you can because, who is going to buy any of this stuff? I have pretty much everything he released so won't be buying any of it again. A lot of his latter stuff I bought more out of hope, than anything else. Most of the time I played it once or twice and then put it back in the box. Prince Live, was usually better than on record in the end.

mmart2008 said:

Well done the estate, get as much money as you can because, who is going to buy any of this stuff? I have pretty much everything he released so won't be buying any of it again. A lot of his latter stuff I bought more out of hope, than anything else. Most of the time I played it once or twice and then put it back in the box. Prince Live, was usually better than on record in the end.

This deal is not all about U. It's about who hasn't heard Prince's later post WBR material and gaining newer fans in a new generation for years to come.

but will they have bonus b-sides and remixes? a remastered lovesexy with 12" b-sides would be great

bboy87 said:

So, to sum it up, at least for the time being, Sony will NOT be distributing 35 previously released albums.... they'll simply be licensing various streaming outlets to carry them?




Why the hell would the estate need Sony to do that for them? If there are not actually CDs and LPs being produced and distributed then what does Sony have to offer in this deal?

If the companies in this industry can't figure out how to make money providing the fans with what we want then they deserve their impending irrelevence. Just sayin'...

djThunderfunk said:

So, to sum it up, at least for the time being, Sony will NOT be distributing 35 previously released albums.... they'll simply be licensing various streaming outlets to carry them?




Why the hell would the estate need Sony to do that for them? If there are not actually CDs and LPs being produced and distributed then what does Sony have to offer in this deal?

If the companies in this industry can't figure out how to make money providing the fans with what we want then they deserve their impending irrelevence. Just sayin'...

So confused by this... What about all the albums already on at TIDAL. They said they are starting with TGE first but to do what? It's already up on TIDAL and other streaming platforms...

TGE, CHAOS & DISORDER, THE TRUTH, THE VAULT, RAVE IN2, THE RAINBOW CHILDREN, XPECTATION, N.E.W.S. THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE, THE CHOCOLATE INVASION, CNOTE, PLANET EARTH, INDIGO NIGHT, LOTUSFLOW3R, 20TEN, NEWPOWERSOUL, THE EXODUS, GIRL 6, 1800 NEW FUNK are all on TIDAL...

[Edited 6/29/18 14:32pm]

bboy87 said:

Strive said:

love2thenines2003 said:

feeluupp said:

TrevorAyer said:

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