Promotional Singles

This section presents all promotional-only singles released by Prince and/or , regardless of format or variant, which details will be found in the corresponding single page. The section only includes promotional singles that have not been made available as retail releases in any form.

Promotional singles that were released in only one country are not classified as promotional, unless a stamp on the cover or label identifies them as promotional items. Similarly, singles pressed by Prince/NPG Records and made available for purchase at concerts are not considered as promotional items here, even though limited numbers were pressed.

What is a promotional recording?

A promotional item is a pressed vinyl disc, compact disc or cassette, made for promotional purposes, in contrast to an in-store release. Such recordings are not available for retail purposes, and are often stamped "Promotional Only Not For Sale". They are pressed by record companies to serve several purposes, the main one being marketing to the media, (including television and radio), distributors and DJ’s. While a promotional recording may be pressed for a single project, not every promotional recording becomes a commercial release.

A promotional recording can also represent a later phase in the making of an item before its commercial release. Previous formats such as acetates and test pressings are not promotional recordings, and therefore are not listed here.

1980	1983	1984	1984	1987	1987	1989

When You Were Mine	D.M.S.R.	Syndicate	Erotic City	Hot Thing (posthumously received official release in 2020 in Sign O’ The Times - The Singles)	The Cross (posthumously received official release in 2020 in Sign O’ The Times - The Singles)	Trust

1992	1993	1993	1994	1994	1994	1995

Willing And Able	Nothing Compares 2 U	Purple Rain	Pope	Love Sign	Come	P. Control

1995	1995	1995	1997	1997	1997	1999

Dolphin	Endorphinmachine	Slave	Somebody's Somebody	Face Down	Can’t Make U Love Me	Extraordinary

1999	1999	1999	1999	2000	2001	2002

The Rest Of My Life	5 Women	It’s About That Walk	Baby Knows	Man‘O’War	She Loves Me 4 Me	Last December

2002	2003	2004	2006	2007	2007	2007

One Nite Alone... Live EP	Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas (posthumously received official release in 2020)	Call My Name	The Song Of The Heart	Chelsea Rodgers	Future Baby Mama	The One U Wanna C

2009	2014

U’re Gonna C Me	Clouds