Since Prince’s death in 2016, his catalogue and recordings have been tangled in a legal mess. In 2008, he received a Webby award for his “visionary use of the Internet to distribute music and connect with audiences”.īut in later years he wasn’t sure of how effective the new frontier was, famously claiming in 2010 that “the internet is completely over”.įrom 2021, Sony/Legacy’s distribution rights expand to include 12 Prince non-soundtrack catalogue albums from 1978-1996 for distribution in the US. He was one of the first artists to use the internet as a music platform, setting up a sub-service NPG and releasing 1998’s Crystal Ball on the relatively new format. He’d already changed his name to the deliberately unmarketable Love Symbol and appeared in public with ‘slave’ written on his cheek to protest what he considered unfair contractual demands by the label.
Many of the tracks came from a time when Prince was experimenting with a non-traditional way of getting his music out to fans. It is described as “a coherent musical chronicle of Prince’s artistic and spiritual evolution through the late 20th and early 21st centuries in songs that continue to resonant in the culture.” There’s also the new Prince Anthology 1995-2010 of 37 tracks from the era. These are the first catalogue titles to be released via a deal struck in June between Sony Music Entertainment and the Prince estate, initially for 35 albums.
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