How many #1 records does Prince have?

How many #1 records does Prince have?

He has accumulated five US number-one singles and fifteen worldwide number 1 hits, as well as 8 worldwide number one albums.

Did Prince break any records?

Prince changed the face of music during his life, and the legendary performer continues to break new ground even after death. Over a month after passing away, Prince has set a Billboard charts record for placing 19 albums in the Top 200 in a single week.

Is Purple Rain a good album?

Rolling Stone ranked Purple Rain number two on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s and number eight on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

How many Prince albums went platinum?

Prince had a total of 16 platinum albums as both a solo artist and a member of the bands Prince & The Revolution and Prince and The New Power Generation, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Platinum is the industry certification for selling one million albums.

Is Purple Rain the greatest song ever?

“Purple Rain” is ranked at No. 18 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

Who sold more records MJ or Prince?

Yes, Jackson does reign with the top-selling album (“Thriller,” 32 million copies sold in America) and ranks seventh among artists for all-times sales (79 million). Prince, meanwhile, languishes far down the list (20.5 million) — below lesser fads such as Meat Loaf, Nelly and Nickelback.

What is the best Prince album with a synthesizer in it?

Bold double album on which Prince and his Revolution fully embrace synthesizers, while making a blatant grab for pop glory with that “1999”/ “Little Red Corvette” one-two. The album that threw the Purple Rain kids off-balance, with its opulent psych-pop textures, but which always sounds better than you think it will, when you revisit.

How many Prince LPs are there?

We rank all 37 LPs from his polymathic 80s masterwork Sign O’ The Times to 2003’s saxophone-heavy N.E.W.S. Prince the polymath in full and frightening effect, across funk, rock and genres yet to be given names. A double album with scarcely a sub-phenomenal moment. The sound of Prince at his most effortless and assured.

Is 1999 the rarest Prince album ever?

And so 1999, which is now being reissued by Warner Records as part of a five-disc set that also includes B-sides, demos, unreleased songs, and concert footage, is the rare record that has come to define its era while also existing outside of it, a masterpiece that immediately precedes the albums Prince fashioned, conspicuously, as masterpieces.