4Ever (Prince album)

4Ever

Greatest hits album by Prince

Released

November 22, 2016

Recorded

October 1977 – May 1993

Genre

Pop
rock
funk

Label

Prince chronology

Hit n Run Phase Two
(2015)

4Ever
(2016)

4Ever is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince, released on November 22, 2016, by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It is the first Prince release following the musician's death on April 21, 2016.

The two-disc set features 40 songs from Prince's tenure with Warner Bros. Records and features recordings from all of his albums between 1978's For You and 1993's The Hits/The B-Sides. It is the first Prince collection to include his number-one hit single "Batdance" from the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman.^[5]

4Ever features the first official release of the song "Moonbeam Levels", which had previously circulated on bootlegs of Prince's unreleased material in a low-quality form.^[6] The song had been recorded in 1982 during the sessions for 1999 and was subsequently considered for the unreleased 1989 album Rave unto the Joy Fantastic.^[7]

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"1999" (single version)	Prince	1999 (1982)	3:38
2.	"Little Red Corvette" (single version)	Prince	1999 (1982)	3:08
3.	"When Doves Cry" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:48
4.	"Let's Go Crazy" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:50
5.	"Raspberry Beret"	Prince	Around the World in a Day (1985)	3:35
6.	"I Wanna Be Your Lover" (single version)	Prince	Prince (1979)	3:00
7.	"Soft and Wet"	Prince, Chris Moon	For You (1978)	3:05
8.	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?"	Prince	Prince (1979)	3:50
9.	"Uptown" (single version)	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	4:12
10.	"When You Were Mine"	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	3:45
11.	"Head"	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	4:45
12.	"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)"	Prince	non-album single (1981)	2:57
13.	"Controversy" (single version)	Prince	Controversy (1981)	3:39
14.	"Let's Work" (single version)	Prince	Controversy (1981)	3:04
15.	"Delirious" (single version)	Prince	1999 (1982)	2:41
16.	"I Would Die 4 U" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:00
17.	"Take Me with U" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:44
18.	"Paisley Park"	Prince	Around the World in a Day (1985)	4:45
19.	"Pop Life"	Prince	Around the World in a Day (1985)	3:45
20.	"Purple Rain"	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	8:42

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Kiss" (single version)	Prince	Parade (1986)	3:46
2.	"Sign o' the Times" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:43
3.	"Alphabet St." (single version)	Prince	Lovesexy (1988)	2:26
4.	"Batdance" (single version)	Prince	Batman (1989)	4:07
5.	"Thieves in the Temple"	Prince	Graffiti Bridge (1990)	3:21
6.	"Cream"	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:13
7.	"Mountains"	Prince, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin	Parade (1986)	4:00
8.	"Girls & Boys" (single version)	Prince	Parade (1986)	3:28
9.	"If I Was Your Girlfriend" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:46
10.	"U Got the Look"	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:47
11.	"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:41
12.	"Glam Slam" (single version)	Prince	Lovesexy (1988)	3:30
13.	"Moonbeam Levels"	Prince	Previously unreleased (1982)	4:06
14.	"Diamonds and Pearls" (single version)	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:20
15.	"Gett Off" (remix)	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:00
16.	"Sexy MF"	Prince, Levi Seacer, Jr., Tony M.	Love Symbol Album (1992)	5:26
17.	"My Name Is Prince" (single version)	Prince, Tony M.	Love Symbol Album (1992)	4:04
18.	"7" (single version)	Prince, Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin	Love Symbol Album (1992)	4:23
19.	"Peach"	Prince	The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)	3:48
20.	"Nothing Compares 2 U" (single version)	Prince	The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)	4:19

Charts

Chart (2016)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[8]	36
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[9]	11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[10]	46
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[11]	12
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[12]	22
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[13]	64
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)^[14]	1
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[15]	30
UK Albums (OCC)^[16]	24
US Billboard 200^[17]	80
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[18]	6

References

↑ Aswad, Jem (October 21, 2016). "Prince Greatest-Hits Collection, '4Ever,' Due Nov. 22; 'Purple Rain' Deluxe Edition -- With Unreleased Songs -- Coming in 2017". Billboard. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ Deerwester, Jayme (October 21, 2016). "Two new Prince albums coming; 'Prince4Ever' arrives Nov. 22". USA Today. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ Kreps, Daniel (October 21, 2016). "Unreleased Prince Songs Prepped for Greatest Hits, 'Purple Rain' Reissue". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
↑ Yoo, Noah. "Prince Purple Rain Reissue, Greatest Hits Album Announced". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
↑ "Prince's Unreleased Songs To Feature In 2 New Albums". International Business Times. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
↑ Kreps, Daniel. "Unreleased Prince Songs Prepped for Greatest Hits, 'Purple Rain' Reissue". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
↑ Ahmed, Tufayel (21 October 2016). "Two new Prince albums are coming—including a 'Purple Rain' reissue". Newsweek. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
↑ "ARIA Australian Top 50 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Ultratop.be – Prince – 4Ever" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Ultratop.be – The Weeknd – Starboy" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Weeknd – Starboy" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "GFK Chart-Track Albums: Week 48, 2016". Chart-Track. IRMA. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 48 (dal 2016-11-25 al 2016-12-01)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. December 5, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
↑ "Prince – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Prince. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
↑ "Prince – Chart history" Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for Prince. Retrieved November 30, 2016.

Prince

Discography Albums Singles Videography Unreleased projects Awards and nominations Associates

Concert tours	Prince Tour Dirty Mind Tour Controversy Tour 1999 Tour Purple Rain Tour Parade Tour Sign o' the Times Tour Lovesexy Tour Nude Tour Diamonds and Pearls Tour Act I and II Interactive Tour The Ultimate Live Experience Love 4 One Another Charities Tour Jam of the Year Tour New Power Soul Tour Hit n Run Tour A Celebration One Nite Alone... Tour World Tour 2003 Musicology Live 2004ever Per4ming Live 3121 21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour 20Ten Tour Welcome 2 Live Out Loud Tour Hit and Run Tour Piano & A Microphone Tour

Filmography	Purple Rain Under the Cherry Moon Sign o' the Times Graffiti Bridge

Videography	Prince and the Revolution: Live Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection The Hits Collection 3 Chains o' Gold Rave Un2 the Year 2000 Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas

Video games	Prince Interactive

Stage productions	Glam Slam Ulysses Billboards

Associated companies	Paisley Park Records NPG Records

Related articles	The Revolution The New Power Generation 3rdeyegirl The Time Vanity 6 Apollonia 6 The Family Madhouse Mazarati John L. Nelson Mayte Garcia Manuela Testolini NPG Music Club Minneapolis sound Purplish Rain

Book:Prince

Prince albums

Studio albums	For You Prince Dirty Mind Controversy 1999 Purple Rain Around the World in a Day Parade Sign o' the Times Lovesexy Batman Graffiti Bridge Diamonds and Pearls Love Symbol Album Come The Black Album The Gold Experience Chaos and Disorder Emancipation Crystal Ball The Truth The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic The Rainbow Children One Nite Alone... Xpectation N.E.W.S Musicology The Chocolate Invasion The Slaughterhouse 3121 Planet Earth Lotusflow3r MPLSound 20Ten Plectrumelectrum Art Official Age Hit n Run Phase One Hit n Run Phase Two

Live albums	One Nite Alone... Live! One Nite Alone... The Aftershow: It Ain't Over! C-Note Indigo Nights

Remix albums	Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic

Compilation albums	The Hits 1 The Hits 2 The Hits/The B-Sides Girl 6 The Very Best of Prince Ultimate Prince 4Ever

The NPG albums	Goldnigga Exodus Newpower Soul

The NPG Orchestra albums	Kamasutra

Madhouse albums	8 16

Prince singles

1970s	"Soft and Wet" "Just as Long as We're Together" "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

1980s	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" "Still Waiting" "Sexy Dancer" "Bambi" "Uptown" "Dirty Mind" "Do It All Night" "Controversy" "Let's Work" "Do Me, Baby" "Sexuality" "1999" "Little Red Corvette" "D.M.S.R." "Delirious" "Automatic" "Let's Pretend We're Married" "When Doves Cry" "Let's Go Crazy" "Purple Rain" "I Would Die 4 U" "Take Me with U" "Paisley Park" "Raspberry Beret" "Pop Life" "America" "Kiss" "Mountains" "Anotherloverholenyohead" "Girls & Boys" "Sign "O" the Times" "If I Was Your Girlfriend" "U Got the Look" "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" "Alphabet St." "Glam Slam" "I Wish U Heaven" "Batdance" "Partyman" "The Arms of Orion" "Scandalous!"

1990s	"The Future" "Thieves in the Temple" "New Power Generation" "Gett Off" "Cream" "Diamonds and Pearls" "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" "Insatiable" "Thunder" "Sexy MF" "My Name Is Prince" "7" "Damn U" "The Morning Papers" "Pink Cashmere" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Peach" "Pope" (remix) "Come" "Letitgo" "Space" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "P Control" "Dolphin" "Endorphinmachine" "I Hate U" "Gold" "Dinner with Delores" "Betcha by Golly Wow!" "The Holy River" "Somebody's Somebody" "Face Down" "The Truth" "Extraordinary" "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"

2000s	"U Make My Sun Shine" (with Angie Stone) "When Will We Be Paid?" (with Audio Stepchild) "Supercute" "The Work, pt. 1" "Days of Wild" "Musicology" "Cinnamon Girl" "Controversy (Live in Hawaii)" "S.S.T." "Te Amo Corazón" "Black Sweat" "Fury" "Guitar" "F.U.N.K." "Dance 4 Me"

2010s	"Extraloveable" "Rock and Roll Love Affair" "Screwdriver" "Fixurlifeup" "Breakfast Can Wait" "Pretzelbodylogic" "Fallinlove2nite" "Breakdown" "Clouds" "Baltimore" "Hardrocklover" "This Could B Us" "Free Urself"

Promotional singles	"When You Were Mine" "D.M.S.R." "Another Lonely Christmas" "Erotic City" "Hot Thing" "Trust" "Willing and Able" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Pope" "Love Sign" (with Nona Gaye) "Come" "P. Control" "Dolphin" "Endorphinmachine" "Slave" "Somebody's Somebody" "Face Down" "The Rest of My Life" "5 Women" "It's About That Walk" "Baby Knows" "Man'O'War" "She Loves Me 4 Me" "Last December" "One Nite Alone... Live EP" "Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas" "Call My Name" "The Song of the Heart" "Beautiful, Loved & Blessed" (with Tamar Davis) "Chelsea Rodgers" "Future Baby Mama" "The One U Wanna C" "U're Gonna C Me"

Airplay-only songs	"International Lover" "Shhh" "Satisfied" "Better with Time"

Internet downloads	"One Song" "Cybersingle" "Bataclan" "Glass Cutter" "Live from Paisley Park" "Strange Relationship" (Live in Minneapolis) "Guitar" (original "demo" version) "Love" (acoustic version) "Rock and Roll Love Affair" (Remix 7) "Screwdriver" (Remix) "Boyfriend" (Demo) "That Girl Thang" "Live Out Loud" "Ain't Gonna Miss U When U're Gone" "Extraloveable Reloaded" "Menstrual Cycle" "Octopus Heart" "Groovy Potential" "The Sweeter She Is" "Something in the Water" (Paisley Park Rehearsal) "Da Bourgeoisie" "What If" "The X's Face"

Streams	"U're Still the One" "Xylophone" "In a Large Room with No Light" "Purple and Gold" "Cause and Effect" "Hot Summer" "Rich Friends" "Same Page Different Book" "Stare"

EP's	The Scandalous Sex Suite EP New Power Generation Remixes Gett Off Remix EP Cream Remixes My Name Is Prince Remixes 7 Remixes The Beautiful Experience Letitgo Remixes Space Remixes I Hate U Remixes 1999: The New Master The Greatest Romance Ever Sold Remixes Breakfast Can Wait

Other songs	"I Feel for You" "When You Were Mine" "Head" "Private Joy" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" "17 Days" "The Beautiful Ones" "Computer Blue" "Darling Nikki" "Baby I'm a Star" "4 the Tears in Your Eyes" "Sometimes It Snows in April" "Adore" "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" "I Can't Make U Love Me" "La, La, La Means I Love U" "One of Us" "Everyday Is a Winding Road" "A Case of U"

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