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Prince signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 19, soon releasing the albums For You (1978) and Prince (1979). He went on to achieve critical success with the influential albums Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982).
Prince has sold over 150 million records worldwide, [4] including 48.9 million certified units in the United States, 4.7 million in France [5] and over 5 million records in the United Kingdom, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. He has accumulated five US number-one singles and fifteen worldwide number 1 hits, as well as 8 ...
The album that received the highest increase in sales was "The Very Best of Prince," a greatest-hits album which jumped nearly 70,000 percent, selling over 250K copies, according to the LA Times ...
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales. Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available ...
The album's opening title track, "1999", was also its first single and initially peaked at No. 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[14] [15] It was subsequently re-released following the huge success of its follow-up single and 1999 ' s second track, "Little Red Corvette", which peaked at No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (like other Prince songs, it again charted after his death, reaching No. 3). [16]
The week following Prince's death, the album sold 40,000 equivalent copies (24,000 in pure album sales) thus allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number 6. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The next week it sold 106,000 units and hit a new peak of number four on the chart. [ 16 ]
Prince and the Revolution won a 1984 Grammy Award for Purple Rain, for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, [37] the four composers (Nelson, Coleman, Prince, and Melvoin) won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, [38] and the album was nominated for Album of the Year. Prince won a third Grammy that year for Best R&B Song for Chaka ...
The Sign o' the Times tour was a success overseas, with Warner Bros. and Prince's managers wanting to bring it to the US to promote sales of the album. [111] [112] Prince balked at a full US tour, as he was ready to produce a new album. [111] As a compromise, the last two nights of the tour were filmed for release in movie theaters.