The List of Prince Albums in Order of Release

Sold over 150 million records worldwide, including 36.5 million certified units in the United States, and over 10 million records in the United Kingdom, Prince Rogers Nelson is one of the greatest musicians of his generation, known for his flamboyant, androgynous persona and wide vocal range, which included a far-reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams. Prince had released 42 studio albums (including four soundtrack albums), four live albums, nine compilation albums (including one soundtrack album), 17 video albums and three posthumous albums.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records at age nineteen, releasing the albums For You (1978) and Prince (1979). He went on to achieve critical success with the innovative albums Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and 1999 (1982). His sixth album, Purple Rain (1984), was recorded with his backup band the Revolution, and was the soundtrack to his film acting debut of the same name. Purple Rain continued critical success for Prince and was a major commercial success, spending six consecutive months atop the Billboard 200. After disbanding the Revolution, Prince released Sign o’ the Times (1987), widely hailed by critics as his magnum opus. He achieved six US top ten albums over the following decade. In April 2016, aged 57, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, releasing 39 albums during his life, with a vast array of unreleased projects left in a vault at his home after his death, including completed albums and over 50 music videos. So, if you are a die heart fan of Prince then check out here we have List of Prince albums in order of release so far.

 

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All Prince Albums in Order: Check Out The List of Prince Albums in Order of Release Here!

1. For You — April 7, 1978
2. Prince — October 19, 1979
3. Dirty Mind — October 8, 1980
4. Controversy — October 14, 1981
5. 1999 — October 27, 1982
6. Purple Rain — June 25, 1984
7. Around the World in a Day — April 22, 1985
8. Parade — March 31, 1986
9. Sign o’ the Times — March 30, 1987
10. Lovesexy — May 10, 1988
11. Batman — June 20, 1989
12. Graffiti Bridge — August 20, 1990
13. Diamonds and Pearls — October 1, 1991
14. Love Symbol Album — October 13, 1992
15. Come — August 16, 1994
16. The Black Album — November 22, 1994
17. The Gold Experience — September 26, 1995
18. Chaos and Disorder — July 9, 1996
19. Emancipation — November 19, 1996
20. Crystal Ball — January 29, 1998
21. The Truth — January 29, 1998
22. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale — August 24, 1999
23. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic — November 2, 1999
24. The Rainbow Children — November 20, 2001
25. One Nite Alone… — May 14, 2002
26. Xpectation — January 1, 2003
27. N·E·W·S — May 26, 2003
28. Musicology — March 27, 2004
29. The Chocolate Invasion — March 29, 2004
30. The Slaughterhouse — March 29, 2004
31. 3121 — March 21, 2006
32. Planet Earth — July 24, 2007
33. Lotusflow3r — March 29, 2009
34. MPLSound — March 29, 2009
35. 20Ten — July 10, 2010
36. Plectrumelectrum — September 26, 2014
37. Art Official Age — September 26, 2014
38. HITnRUN Phase One — September 7, 2015
39. HITnRUN Phase Two — December 12, 2015

 

Posthumous releases:

1. Piano and a Microphone 1983 — September 21, 2018
2. Originals — June 7, 2019
3. Welcome 2 America — July 30, 2021

 

All Prince Albums list in Order

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1. For You (1978)

Tracks

1. For You
2. In Love
3. Soft and Wet
4. Crazy You
5. Just as Long as We’re Together
6. Baby
7. My Love Is Forever
8. So Blue
9. I’m Yours

 

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2. Prince (1979)

Tracks

1. I Wanna Be Your Lover
2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Sexy Dancer
4. When We’re Dancing Close and Slow
5. With You
6. Bambi
7. Still Waiting
8. I Feel for You
9. It’s Gonna Be Lonely

 

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3. Dirty Mind (1980)

Tracks

1. Dirty Mind
2. When You Were Mine
3. Do It All Night
4. Gotta Broken Heart Again
5. Uptown
6. Head
7. Sister
8. Partyup

 

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4. Controversy (1981)

Tracks

1. Controversy
2. Sexuality
3. Do Me, Baby
4. Private Joy
5. Ronnie, Talk to Russia
6. Let’s Work
7. Annie Christian
8. Jack U Off

 

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5. 1999 (1982)

Tracks

1. 1999
2. Little Red Corvette
3. Delirious
4. Let’s Pretend We’re Married
5. D.M.S.R.
6. Automatic
7. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
8. Free
9. Lady Cab Driver
10. All the Critics Love U in New York
11. International Lover

 

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6. Purple Rain (1984)

Tracks

1. Let’s Go Crazy
2. Take Me with U
3. The Beautiful Ones
4. Computer Blue
5. Darling Nikki
6. When Doves Cry
7. I Would Die 4 U
8. Baby I’m a Star
9. Purple Rain

 

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7. Around the World in a Day (1985)

Tracks

1. Around the World in a Day
2. Paisley Park
3. Condition of the Heart
4. Raspberry Beret
5. Tamborine
6. America
7. Pop Life
8. The Ladder
9. Temptation

 

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8. Parade (1986)

Tracks

1. Christopher Tracy’s Parade
2. New Position
3. I Wonder U
4. Under the Cherry Moon
5. Girls & Boys
6. Life Can Be So Nice
7. Venus de Milo
8. Mountains
9. Do U Lie?
10. Kiss
11. Anotherloverholenyohead
12. Sometimes It Snows in April

 

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9. Sign o’ the Times (1987)

Tracks

1. Sign o’ the Times
2. Play in the Sunshine
3. Housequake
4. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
5. It
6. Starfish and Coffee
7. Slow Love
8. Hot Thing
9. Forever in My Life

 

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10. Lovesexy (1988)

Tracks

1. Eye No
2. Alphabet St.
3. Glam Slam
4. Anna Stesia
5. Dance On
6. Lovesexy
7. When 2 R in Love
8. I Wish U Heaven
9. Positivity

 

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11. Batman (1989)

Tracks

1. The Future
2. Electric Chair
3. The Arms of Orion
4. Partyman
5. Vicki Waiting
6. Trust
7. Lemon Crush
8. Scandalous
9. Batdance

 

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12. Graffiti Bridge (1990)

Tracks

1. Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
2. New Power Generation, Part 1
3. Release It
4. The Question of U
5. Elephants & Flowers
6. Round and Round
7. We Can Funk
8. Joy in Repetition
9. Love Machine
10. Tick, Tick, Bang
11. Shake!
12. Thieves in the Temple
13. The Latest Fashion
14. Melody Cool
15. Still Would Stand All Time
16. Graffiti Bridge
17. New Power Generation, Part 2

 

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13. Diamonds and Pearls (1991)

Tracks

1. Thunder
2. Daddy Pop
3. Diamonds and Pearls
4. Cream
5. Strollin’
6. Willing and Able
7. Gett Off
8. Walk Don’t Walk
9. Jughead
10. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
11. Push
12. Insatiable
13. Live 4 Love (Last Words from the Cockpit)

 

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14. Love Symbol Album (1992)

Tracks

1. My Name Is Prince
2. Sexy MF
3. Love 2 the 9’s
4. The Morning Papers
5. The Max
6. Segue
7. Blue Light
8. 👁 Wanna Melt with U
9. Sweet Baby
10. The Continental
11. Damn U
12. Arrogance
13. The Flow
14. “7”
15. And God Created Woman
16. 3 Chains o’ Gold
17. Segue
18. The Sacrifice of Victor

 

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15. Come (1994)

Tracks

1. Come
2. Space
3. Pheromone
4. Loose!
5. Papa
6. Race
7. Dark
8. Solo
9. Letitgo
10. Orgasm

 

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16. The Black Album (1994)

Tracks

1. Le Grind
2. Cindy C.
3. Dead on It
4. When 2 R in Love
5. Bob George
6. Superfunkycalifragisexy
7. 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
8. Rockhard in a Funky Place

 

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17. The Gold Experience (1995)

Tracks

1. P Control
2. NPG Operator
3. Endorphinmachine
4. Shhh
5. We March
6. NPG Operator
7. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
8. Dolphin
9. NPG Operator
10. Now
11. NPG Operator
12. 319
13. NPG Operator
14. Shy
15. Billy Jack Bitch
16. I Hate U
17. NPG Operator
18. Gold

 

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18. Chaos and Disorder (1996)

Tracks

1. Chaos and Disorder
2. I Like It There
3. Dinner with Delores
4. The Same December
5. Right the Wrong
6. Zannalee
7. I Rock, Therefore I Am
8. Into the Light
9. I Will
10. Dig U Better Dead
11. Had U

 

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19. Emancipation (1996)

Tracks

1. Jam of the Year
2. Right Back Here in My Arms
3. Somebody’s Somebody
4. Get Yo Groove On
5. Courtin’ Time
6. Betcha by Golly Wow!
7. We Gets Up
8. White Mansion
9. Damned If 👁 Do
10. 👁 Can’t Make U Love Me
11. Mr. Happy
12. In This Bed 👁 Scream
13. Sex in the Summer
14. One Kiss at a Time
15. Soul Sanctuary
16. Emale
17. Curious Child
18. Dreamin’ About U
19. Joint 2 Joint
20. The Holy River
21. Let’s Have a Baby
22. Saviour
23. The Plan
24. Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
25. Slave
26. New World
27. The Human Body
28. Face Down
29. La, La, La Means 👁 Love U
30. Style
31. Sleep Around
32. Da, Da, Da
33. My Computer
34. One of Us
35. The Love We Make
36. Emancipation

 

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20. Crystal Ball (1998)

Tracks

1. Crystal Ball
2. Dream Factory
3. Acknowledge Me
4. Ripopgodazippa
5. Love Sign
6. Hide the Bone
7. 2morrow
8. So Dark
9. Movie Star
10. Tell Me How U Wanna B Done
11. Interactive
12. Da Bang
13. Calhoun Square
14. What’s My Name
15. Crucial
16. An Honest Man
17. Sexual Suicide
18. Cloreen Baconskin
19. Good Love
20. Strays of the World
21. Days of Wild
22. Last Heart
23. Poom Poom
24. She Gave Her Angels
25. 18 & Over
26. The Ride
27. Get Loose
28. P Control
29. Make Your Mama Happy
30. Goodbye

 

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21. The Truth (1998)

Tracks

1. The Truth
2. Don’t Play Me
3. Circle of Amour
4. 3rd 👁
5. Dionne
6. Man in a Uniform
7. Animal Kingdom
8. The Other Side of the Pillow
9. Fascination
10. One of Your Tears
11. Comeback
12. Welcome 2 the Dawn

 

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22. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (1999)

Tracks

1. The Rest of My Life
2. It’s About That Walk
3. She Spoke 2 Me
4. 5 Women
5. When the Lights Go Down
6. My Little Pill
7. There Is Lonely
8. Old Friends 4 Sale
9. Sarah
10. Extraordinary

 

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23. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (1999)

Tracks

1. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
2. Undisputed
3. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
4. Segue
5. Hot Wit U
6. Tangerine
7. So Far, So Pleased
8. The Sun, the Moon and Stars
9. Everyday Is a Winding Road
10. Segue
11. Man’O’War
12. Baby Knows
13. 👁 Love U, but 👁 Don’t Trust U Anymore
14. Silly Game
15. Strange but True
16. Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do
17. Segue
18. Prettyman

 

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24. The Rainbow Children (2001)

Tracks

1. Rainbow Children
2. Muse 2 the Pharaoh
3. Digital Garden
4. The Work, pt. 1
5. Everywhere
6. The Sensual Everafter
7. Mellow
8. 1+1+1 Is 3
9. Deconstruction
10. Wedding Feast
11. She Loves Me 4 Me
12. Family Name
13. The Everlasting Now
14. Last December
15. Untitled

 

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25. One Nite Alone… (2002)

Tracks

1. One Nite Alone…
2. U’re Gonna C Me
3. Here on Earth
4. A Case of U
5. Have a Heart
6. Objects in the Mirror
7. Avalanche
8. Pearls B4 the Swine
9. Young and Beautiful
10. Arboretum

 

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26. Xpectation (2003)

Tracks

1. Xhalation
2. Xcogitate
3. Xemplify
4. Xpectation
5. Xotica
6. Xogenous
7. Xpand
8. Xosphere
9. Xpedition

 

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27. N·E·W·S (2003)

Tracks

1. North
2. East
3. West
4. South

 

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28.Musicology (2004)

Tracks

1. Musicology
2. Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance
3. A Million Days
4. Life ‘o’ the Party
5. Call My Name
6. Cinnamon Girl
7. What Do U Want Me 2 Do?
8. The Marrying Kind
9. If Eye Was the Man in Ur Life
10. On the Couch
11. Dear Mr. Man
12. Reflection

 

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29. The Chocolate Invasion (2004)

Tracks

1. When 👁 Lay My Hands on U
2. Judas Smile
3. Supercute
4. Underneath the Cream
5. Sexmesexmenot
6. Vavoom
7. High
8. The Dance
9. Gamillah
10. U Make My Sun Shine

 

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30. The Slaughterhouse (2004)

Tracks

1. Silicon
2. S&M Groove
3. Y Should 👁 Do That When 👁 Can Do This?
4. Golden Parachute
5. Hypnoparadise
6. Props ‘n’ Pounds
7. Northside
8. Peace
9. 2045: Radical Man
10. The Daisy Chain

 

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31. 3121 (2006)

Tracks

1. 3121
2. Lolita
3. Te Amo Corazón
4. Black Sweat
5. Incense and Candles
6. Love
7. Satisfied
8. Fury
9. The Word
10. Beautiful, Loved and Blessed
11. The Dance
12. Get On the Boat

 

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32. Planet Earth (2007)

Tracks

1. Planet Earth
2. Guitar
3. Somewhere Here on Earth
4. The One U Wanna C
5. Future Baby Mama
6. Mr. Goodnight
7. All the Midnights in the World
8. Chelsea Rodgers
9. Lion of Judah
10. Resolution

 

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33. Lotusflow3r (2009)

Tracks

1. From the Lotus…
2. Boom
3. Crimson and Clover
4. 4ever
5. Colonized Mind
6. Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful
7. Love Like Jazz
8. 77 Beverly Park
9. Wall of Berlin
10. “$”
11. Dreamer
12. …Back 2 the Lotus

 

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34. MPLSound (2009)

Tracks

1. (There’ll Never B) Another Like Me
2. Chocolate Box (featuring Q-Tip)
3. Dance 4 Me
4. U’re Gonna C Me
5. Here
6. Valentina
7. Better with Time
8. Ol’ Skool Company
9. No More Candy 4 U

 

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35. 20Ten (2010)

Tracks

1. Compassion
2. Beginning Endlessly
3. Future Soul Song
4. Sticky Like Glue
5. Act of God
6. Lavaux
7. Walk in Sand
8. Sea of Everything
9. Everybody Loves Me
10. Laydown

 

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36. Plectrumelectrum (2014)

Tracks

1. Wow
2. Pretzelbodylogic
3. Aintturninround
4. Plectrumelectrum
5. Whitecaps
6. Fixurlifeup
7. Boytrouble
8. Stopthistrain
9. Anotherlove
10. Tictactoe
11. Marz
12. Funknroll

 

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37. Art Official Age (2014)

Tracks

1. Art Official Cage
2. Clouds
3. Breakdown
4. The Gold Standard
5. U Know
6. Breakfast Can Wait
7. This Could Be Us
8. What It Feels Like
9. affirmation I & II
10. Way Back Home
11. Funknroll
12. Time
13. affirmation III

 

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38. HITnRUN Phase One (2015)

Tracks

1. Million $ Show
2. Shut This Down
3. Ain’t About 2 Stop
4. Like a Mack
5. This Could B Us
6. Fallinlove2nite
7. X’s Face
8. Hardrocklover
9. Mr. Nelson
10. 1000’s of X’s & O’s
11. June

 

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39. HITnRUN Phase Two (2015)

Tracks

1. Baltimore
2. Rocknroll Loveaffair
3. 2 Y. 2 D.
4. Look at Me, Look at U
5. Stare
6. Xtraloveable
7. Groovy Potential
8. When She Comes
9. Screwdriver
10. Black Muse
11. Revelation
12. Big City

 

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Posthumous Releases:

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40. Piano and a Microphone 1983 (2018)

Tracks

1. 17 Days
2. Purple Rain
3. A Case of You
4. Mary Don’t You Weep
5. Strange Relationship
6. International Lover
7. Wednesday
8. Cold Coffee & Cocaine
9. Why the Butterflies

 

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41. Originals (2019)

Tracks

1. Sex Shooter
2. Jungle Love
3. Manic Monday
4. Noon Rendezvous
5. Make-Up
6. 100 MPH
7. You’re My Love
8. Holly Rock
9. Baby, You’re a Trip
10. The Glamorous Life
11. Gigolos Get Lonely Too
12. Love… Thy Will Be Done
13. Dear Michaelangelo
14. Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?
15. Nothing Compares 2 U

 

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42. Welcome 2 America (2021)

Tracks

1. Welcome 2 America
2. Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)
3. Born 2 Die
4. 1000 Light Years from Here
5. Hot Summer
6. Stand Up and B Strong
7. Check the Record
8. Same Page, Different Book
9. When She Comes
10. 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)
11. Yes
12. One Day We Will All B Free

 

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