X wrote:Black Metallic wrote:X wrote:1. EveL as much as i LOOOOVE prince, he did NOT own every year of the 80s...infact he was very non main stream until 1999 came out in 83, purple rain in 84 was fucking HUGE. But then Cherry Moon like blew up in his face. Now granted i liked Around the world in a day, Lovesexy, Parade, and even the Batman stuff all those....(86, 87 and 89) were pretty much colossal flops. Well, Batman was huge, and i LOVE the batman album, but most people make fun of it. So....in retrospect, commercially, Prince only really RULED 1983, 84, 86 (with Parade) and technically 89.
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Sign of the Times - 88-89, double cassette/cd. HUGE. Rasberry Beret - huge.
Living in minneapolis when prince was huge - priceless.
yes the sign o the times album was pretty big, it was the comeback that was then foiled by the lovesexy album, and then of course the batman thing. I left it out on purpose.
Raspberry Beret singly also did a good number, but it came off of the heels of Purple Rain, so honestly, it was gonna be big no matter what. (it is infact one of my more fav prince songs at that) but truely in marketing, if you feed someone a steak dinner every night for a year...then give them a piece of poop, and tell them it tastes the same, they'll fall for it at least once....i say once...name me another hit a real radio hit for the next 2-3 years.
(and before its said, pop life doesn't count, cus it wasn't a radio hit)
OK I am assuming the challenge was for any radio hits after Purple Rain besides Rasberrry beret but staying within the thread limits of the 80's....OK
Purple Rain was released in 1984.
Around the World in A Day was released in 1985 and excluding the hit Rasberry Beret.....there was also "Around the Worl in a Day" the single
After that PARADE was released in 1986 and contain the #1 single "Kiss". That song is still playing today.
Sign o' the times was released in 1987 and had the radio singles "U got the Look" (with Sheena Easton) and if not both of these, at least one of them were singles off of that album "I could never take the place of your man" and "If I was your girlfriend"
Lovesexy , released in 1988 had "alphabet St." Terrible video, catchy song. And one other song was released off of that album.
THe BATMAN soundtrack released in 1989, love it or hate it, had "Party man" and "Batdance" as singles
You can verify this information at
http://www.lyricscafe.com/p/prince.htm
now I could argue that Prince DID dominate the 80's, at least from 1983 on.......but I just couldnt get any hard facts about exactly how many singles prince released in the 80's . after and hour of searching I gave up.
But I counted 21 for madonna so if anyone can gimme an official singles count on Prince, that would be great.