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The official Prince thread; 1958-2016
Topic Started: Apr 18 2014, 08:29 PM (1,105 Views)
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Apr 22 2016, 05:49 PM
Was he really homophobic? Sad to hear.
When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ “
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Oh dear.

I bet he was far more liberal, decent and enlightened before the whole Jehovah's Witness stuff.
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Apr 22 2016, 05:49 PM
Was he really homophobic? Sad to hear.
When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ “
I heard the dude that spread that recanted it after Prince attempted to sue him or something
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Prince's 'The Very Best Of' Album Headed for No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

The late icon's 'Very Best Of' album is on course to re-enter the chart at No. 1.

In the wake of Prince’s death on April 21, the music legend is heading for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with the greatest hits album The Very Best of Prince. If the set tops the list, it will mark Prince’s fifth No. 1, and first since 2006’s 3121.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the new May 7-dated Billboard 200 chart is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, April 24.

Prince died on the final day of the most recent Billboard 200 chart tracking week, so the chart will reflect the immediate reaction to his passing. Anything beyond that (purchases and streams occurring on April 22 and later) will be reflected on the following week’s chart.

Industry sources suggest The Very Best of Prince could earn more than 150,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 21, with between 90,000 and 100,000 in traditional album sales. (Sources say the album sold around 85,000 through the iTunes Store alone on April 21.)

The overall total unit figure for The Very Best of Prince is large because of the popularity of its 17 tracks, which includes 13 of his 19 top 10-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100. The highlights set -- which was released in 2001 and debuted and (so far) peaked at No. 66 -- boasts iconic tracks like “Let’s Go Crazy,” “Kiss,” and “Purple Rain.”

It’s likely that his second-biggest-selling album for the week will be the classic Purple Rain soundtrack, which, according to sources, moved more than 40,000 copies through iTunes yesterday. The album spent 24 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984 and 1985.

Prince’s catalog is selling incredibly well, not just because of the artist’s extraordinary popularity, but also because his music has limited availability on streaming services and YouTube. The only streaming service with access to his songs is Tidal. And, as noted in Billboard magazine’s cover story about Prince in 2013, “you’ll be hard-pressed to find any classic videos or performance footage of Prince on YouTube or anywhere else on the Web. ("'I have a team of female black lawyers who keep an eye on such transgressions,' Prince says. 'And you know they’re sharp,' he adds with a laugh.")

Thus, outside of listening to his music on the radio, for many the primary way to experience Prince’s music is to purchase it.

Prince has led the Billboard 200 four times previously, with 3121 (for one week in 2006), the Batman soundtrack (six weeks in 1989), Around the World in a Day (three weeks in 1985) and Purple Rain.
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it turns out prince was completely bonkers. that's brand new information.
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Apr 22 2016, 10:40 PM
it turns out prince was completely bonkers. that's brand new information.
what you reading handsome ... details hubby :sadbitch:
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Spoke out/commented against gay sex and gay marriage many times. Around 2007 or so is when he really fell into the Jehovah's Witness stuff.
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He currently occupies the top 16 spots on the US iTunes Top Songs chart, and below that position pretty much has a song or two every couple or few positions.
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Loving this spat. :popcorn:

In a Facebook post published earlier this week, Sinead O'Connor accused television host Arsenio Hall of supplying drugs to Prince "over the decades." She also accused Hall of drugging her in the past. Today, Hall has responded by filing a $5 million defamation suit against O'Connor, as TMZ reports. In the suit, Hall denied that he ever supplied drugs to Prince or drugged O'Connor. The suit also refers to her as a "desperate attention seeker" and said she is "well known for her media antics and for seeking attention through inflammatory Facebook posts."

The Drug Enforcement Agency recently got involved with the investigation into Prince's death. It's also been reported that Prince passed away a day before he was scheduled to get urgent treatment for addiction to painkillers.


Sinead's response to Arsenio's lawsuit:

REGARDING ARSE-INIO HALL'S LAUGHABLE THREATS

I'm more amused than I've ever dreamed a person could be and look forward very much to how hilarious it will be watching him trying to prove me wrong.
I'm also very happy to notice that the DEA have taken me seriously enough to be thoroughly questioning all of Prince's friends and aides from the last thirty years as to his KNOWN history of hard drug use and where he obtained his drugs. I do not like drugs killing musicians. And I do not like Arsenio Hall. He can suck my dick. That is if he isn't too busy sucking someone else's dick. : )
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i'm still so sad about prince's death. however this bitchfest is so much fun to witness
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May 7 2016, 02:40 AM
i'm still so sad about prince's death. however this bitchfest is so much fun to witness
I'm sort of obsessed by him these days. I've been devouring his 80s albums and absolutely loving them!
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What have you found to be your favourite?

For me, it's always been Parade and Sign O'The Times. I bought the latter on double cassette that day it was released!
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"Parade" and "LoveSexy" are my favourites.
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Lovesexy was much underrated.
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I love all of his 80's stuff, but Sign Of The Times is my favourite Prince album.

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Still not sure what's my fave, but I am ADORING Purple Rain, 1999, Diamonds and Pearls, Sign o' the Times, Lovesexy...it's all rather wonderful. I was always a bit intimidated by the sheer size of his catalogue, so kind of backed off ever really listening to him properly, even though I've always loved certain songs. I'm only truly realising now how fucking amazing he was.
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May 9 2016, 09:56 PM
Much like johnnox's cock I was always a bit intimidated by the sheer size of his catalogue.
Aww thanks Riv. :flirt2:
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i loved LOVED diamonds and pearls and symbol back in those days. he was on fire in the early 90s.
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May 14 2016, 01:19 AM
i loved LOVED diamonds and pearls and symbol back in those days. he was on fire in the early 90s.
Unfortunately everything after that point went tits up, mainly because of his hatred of the industry and his megalomaniac refusal to bring in collaborators to help him keep evolving his sound as he got older.

Regardless his catalog up through the early 90s speaks for itself, and he never lost his talent as a musician.

"Erotic City" has to be one of the greatest songs ever to not make its respective album's tracklist.
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I must check that song out.

HITnRUN Phase Two has quite a lot of excellent stuff on it. Rock and Roll Love Affair could easily have been recorded in the early 90s. The melody is top notch.
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