Prince 4ever is the sixth compilation album of Prince's Warner Bros. studio work, and the first official posthumous release, announced six months to the day after Prince's death, and planned for release seven months after, in November 2016 (more than ten years after the previous compilation album, Ultimate).
It comprises only Warner Bros.-era recordings under the name Prince from 14 studio albums, released originally between 1978 and 1993, as well as the standalone single track Gotta Stop (Messin' About) and two songs which previously debuted on The Hits 1 and The Hits 2 (Nothing Compares 2 U and Peach respectively). The compilation includes one previously-unreleased track, Moonbeam Levels.
In contrast with the tracks on The Hits 1 and The Hits 2, most songs on this compilation are in edit form as they originally appeared on 7" singles. Most notably Little Red Corvette, Let's Go Crazy and Alphabet St. which were not officially released on commercially available cds in the edit-form they appear in on this release.
Of the 40 tracks on the compilation, Take Me With U, Paisley Park, Batdance, Mountains, Girls & Boys, Glam Slam and the previously-unreleased Moonbeam Levels had not appeared on a previous studio compilation album in any form.
Promotion
A press release for the compilation (also announcing a remastered deluxe version of Purple Rain for early 2017) was put out on 21 October 2016, six months to the day after Prince's death. More promotion is expected, and information will be added here as it becomes available.
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