Musicology was released as the lead commercial CD single from Prince’s 2004 comeback album of the same name, two weeks after the album hit retail. It served as a funky, James Brown-inspired return-to-form statement and marked Prince’s renewed major-label push via NPG/Columbia. 🟣 The Story The single was part of a carefully orchestrated rollout that blended traditional physical release with early digital experiments on the NPG Music Club. Four weeks prior, the track “Magnifi