{"id":973962,"date":"2019-12-10T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923292"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:18:43","slug":"37-years-later-princes-1999-leaps-to-top-40-of-rs-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/37-years-later-princes-1999-leaps-to-top-40-of-rs-200\/","title":{"rendered":"37 Years Later, Prince\u2019s \u20181999\u2019 Leaps to Top 40 of RS 200"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to a \u201csuper deluxe\u201d reissue, Prince<\/a>\u2019s 1999 <\/em>jumped to Number 31 on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums<\/a> chart. 1999 <\/em>earned 19,200 album-equivalent units, a total driven almost entirely by sales \u2014 12,100 album sales and 3,200 song sales. In addition, songs on the reissue amassed more than 1.2 million streams, led by longtime favorites like \u201cLittle Red Corvette.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new edition of 1999<\/em>, released on the 20th anniversary of the year cited in the album\u2019s title, sprawls over five CDs or ten LPs. The first disc contains a remaster of the original 1982 album, while the second focuses on alternative mixes and edits of album cuts as well as well-known B-sides like \u201cHow Come U Don\u2019t Call Me Anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third and fourth CDs are where the reissue gets exciting: This 1999 <\/em>contains a number of previously unreleased Prince cuts that were only available, at best, as bootlegs. The collection includes, but is hardly limited to, \u201cPurple Music,\u201d an 11-minute tour-de-force, \u201cDo Yourself a Favor,\u201d one of the purest pop melodies Prince ever wrote, and \u201cBold Generation,\u201d an early rendition of 1990\u2019s \u201cNew Power Generation\u201d that puts the released version to shame. Finally, there is one more disc capturing a show in Detroit in 1982.<\/p>\n

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Unsurprisingly, the whole thing is not cheap \u2014 this week Amazon was selling the CD version for around $70, while the vinyl set cost upward of $200. But fans shelled out, with more than 95% of purchasers choosing a physical version of the \u201csuper deluxe\u201d 1999 <\/em>rather than a digital one.<\/p>\n

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The latest version of 1999 <\/em>is part of a series of posthumous releases from the Prince estate that start to unearth corners of the star\u2019s famous vault. Other collections include Piano & a Microphone 1983<\/em>, which captures Prince alone at a keyboard whizzing through a series of tracks, and Originals<\/em>, which collects songs Prince wrote that were released by other performers.<\/p>\n

The 1999 reissue comes two months after The Beatles\u2019 Abbey Road<\/em> made a similar return to the charts<\/a>, landing at Number Three on the RS 200 in October after a 40-track \u201csuper deluxe\u201d reissue of the 1969 classic.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a> 200 Albums chart tracks the most popular releases of the week in the United States. Entries are ranked by album units, a number that combines digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The Rolling Stone<\/i> 200 Albums chart is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone <\/i>finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to a \u201csuper deluxe\u201d reissue, Prince\u2019s 1999 jumped to Number 31 on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. 1999 earned 19,200 album-equivalent units, a total driven almost entirely by sales \u2014 12,100 album sales and 3,200 song sales. In addition, songs on the reissue amassed more than 1.2 million streams, led by longtime favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:05:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}