Talk:Prince discography

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Contents 1 Singles 2 Sales Figures 3 Irresistible Bitch? And where's Automatic? 3.1 Fair-use on discographies test case 4 Organization of albums 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Prince.eye.gif

[edit] Singles

I noticed a column was added for the United World Chart, which is great. However, of all the Prince singles, there is chart information for one song - "Sign O the Times". Soooo either this column is completely unnecessary or there is missing chart data. All other songs have dashes. Anyone have an idea what's up? - eo 12:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

A vandal inflated a bunch of chart positions and when correcting these I removed the UWC column. It served no purpose. - eo 22:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sales Figures

The sales figures on this page were horribly inflated. Sadly, they are hard to cite because there are not a lot of complete sources online for these figures. For the moment, I have updated much the album sales data based on info compiled here: http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34161 The figures on this page are compiled from RIAA, Billboard, Soundscan, etc... However, since it's a forum listing it's not an appropriate "official" source. We need something better. If someone were so inclined they could probably dig through that thread for some valid citations on at least a few of the numbers. --John T. Folden 07:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irresistible Bitch? And where's Automatic?

The singles list seems to list the b-side Irresistible Bitch for some reason, and omits Automatic which was released in Australia... Lianachan

[edit] Fair-use on discographies test case

Please see Talk:The_Beatles_discography#Poll_on_the_use_of_fair-use_images_on_this_page_and_the_interpretation_of_policy which is acting as a test case in this matter. Jooler 09:42, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Organization of albums

Because Prince's body of work is so prolific, I organized his albums into the subcategories of: Studio, Soundtracks, New Power Generation & Instrumental, Live, and Compilations. This model is loosely inspired by other large discographies, such as U2's or Madonna's. My edit was reverted, and it was requested that I start a discussion first. Do others agree or disagree on the organization of albums?

Disagree - for several reasons, including:

a) It ruins the chronological progression of the discography. A person new to Prince's body of work would assume, at first glance, that Sign O' The Times was a follow up to Around The World In A Day which was in turn a follow up to 1999, etc.

b) While several of Prince's albums also happen to serve as soundtracks, they very much are considered stand-alone works both in general perception and in artistic merit. To place Purple Rain and Parade in the same category with Girl 6 shows, to me, a very clear misunderstanding of these albums. I'd argue this is, also, not comparable to Madonna's or U2's discographies in this regard because the soundtracks listed there are, truly, works containing music from various artists unconnected with them and exist only for the movies in question - thereby making them less than 'official' albums. The same can not be said for Purple Rain, Parade, Graffiti Bridge.

c) Sub-categories such as "Instrumental" or "Live" seem spurious at best given that many of Prince's albums contain a mix of studio, live and instrumental all on one disc.

d) This categorical information, should someone want it, is already included in the Additional Info column of the listing.

However, a couple of notes here. Girl 6 is not a Prince album in the classic sense. It is a true soundtrack compiled by someone else. Also, it is questionable to include, at least the first two, New Power Generation releases in the main discography. They are no more official Prince albums than the first 2 or 3 produced under "The Time" moniker (where Prince and a couple of his own bandmates actually composed/performed on the entire album). Compilations are also an iffy category as Prince himself often seemed to have little directly to do with them. --John T. Folden 05:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Prince.eye.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)