Prince news headlines

Under the deal struck between Sony Legacy Recordings and The Prince Estate in 2018, the distribution rights to the albums in Prince’s catalogue currently owned by Warner Brothers will pass to Sony in 2021.

The announcement fans have been longing for, that Prince’s best album be remastered and given the Super Deluxe Edition treatment, has finally arrived.

An all-star billed one-off concert, Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute To Prince recorded at the end of January, airs on CBS on Tuesday 21 April to mark the passing of 4 years since Prince’s death in 2016.

Sony Legacy continues their splendid reissue series in 2020 with One Nite Alone… and The Rainbow Children.

The Beautiful Ones, the completed pages of Prince’s memoir, is such an vital and unique release. Of all the releases which followed in the three-and-a-half years since his death, this is the only one Prince himself would have released.

Warner Brothers announces the release of super deluxe re-master of Prince’s fifth studio album 1999 will be due this November. The success of 2017’s Purple Rain Deluxe sees the label’s next release upgraded to Super Deluxe Edition and is available this November. What’s in it?

The Prince Estate will not renew Graceland’s contract after 1 October expiry.

Between releases from Prince’s famed Paisley Park vault, the superstar’s estate is finding room in its busy release schedule to reissue albums of Prince’s post Warner Brothers career, those whose rights was since awarded to Sony Legacy in partnership with The Prince Estate.