Glam Slam Escape: Albums

Released November 24, 2002 exclusively to NPG Music Club members, One Nite Alone… Live! captured the spiritual jazz‑funk electricity of Prince’s 2002 tour across three discs: the main show, the legendary aftershow, and the previously club‑only One Nite Alone… studio album. A landmark live document.

A deep‑cut megamix bridging studio, vault, and rehearsal energy — released as part of NPGMC Edition 12, and later reborn inside the Glam Slam VIP experience.

A late‑2001 digital drop blending Ahdio, vault cuts, live heat, and early blueprints for what would become The Chocolate Invasion

T he controversial new album from Prince, available now. one-page press advert UK Virgin Megastore, Prince's album The Rainbow Children was released on November 20, 2001, by NPG Records and Redline Entertainment. Earlier in the year, it was also made available through Prince's website. This album marks the first release outside of the NPG Music Club under the name Prince, following his return to his former stage name after a year using a symbolic moniker. Initially available

Prince’s first post‑symbol album, The Rainbow Children arrived as a bold jazz‑funk concept work rooted in spiritual awakening, live musicianship, and narrative ambition. Released November 2001, it marked a dramatic stylistic shift and remains one of his most polarising, visionary statements.

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Released November 9, 1999, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic marked Prince’s return to a major‑label platform via Arista Records and his most collaboration‑heavy project to date. Arriving at the end of the millennium — and during his “Love Symbol” period — the album positioned Prince as both auteur and curator, blending his signature musicality with high‑profile guest appearances from Gwen Stefani, Sheryl Crow, Eve, Ani DiFranco, and Maceo Parker.

Released August 24, 1999, The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale closed Prince’s Warner Bros. contract with a collection of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1985 and 1996. Submitted in 1996 but delayed for three years, it arrived just months before Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic and stands as a bittersweet farewell to the Warner era.

Crystal Ball is Prince at his most expansive — a kaleidoscope of vault treasures spanning funk workouts, psychedelic pop, jazz experiments, and deeply personal ballads. The project embodies his late‑’90s independence: self‑distributed, fan‑focused, and defiantly outside the major‑label system. From the legendary “Movie Star” to the 15‑minute monster groove “Cloreen Bacon Skin,” the set reveals the breadth of Prince’s creativity across more than a decade of recording.

Prince’s first fully independent release after leaving Warner Bros., Emancipation is a 3‑hour, 36‑track celebration of artistic freedom, marriage, spirituality, and rebirth. Issued as a triple‑CD and triple‑cassette on November 19, 1996, it stands as the longest and most ambitious album of his career.