Format: CD • 2×LP Label: Experience Hendrix / Image Entertainment Country: USA / International Release Date: 4 May 2004 Genre: Rock • Funk • Soul Style: Tribute Album • Hendrix Interpretations Overview On 4 May 2004, Power Of Soul: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix was released, featuring Prince’s contribution “Purple House”, a re‑imagining of the Jimi Hendrix Experience track “Red House” from Are You Experienced (1967). Prince retitled the song to reflect his long‑standing associa

Format: CD Single Label: NPG Records / Columbia Country: Europe Release Date: 3 May 2004 Genre: Funk • Pop • R&B Style: Contemporary Funk • Minneapolis Sound Revival Overview Musicology was the first commercially‑available single released from Prince’s 2004 album of the same name. Issued two weeks after the album’s retail release, it served as the lead European single and the anchor for the album’s promotional campaign. Four weeks before the physical CD appeared, Magnificen

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

Musicology marked Prince’s return to major‑label distribution and his re‑emergence into the mainstream after several years of independent and online‑only releases. Following its initial rollout as a download and as a CD given to every attendee of the Musicology Live 2004ever tour, the retail edition arrived with full packaging and a CD‑ROM component featuring the “Musicology” video. Timed to coincide with Prince’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the album became

The album — his twenty‑eighth studio release — was given to all concertgoers throughout the North American tour (March 27 to September 9, 2004), a pioneering ticket‑bundling strategy that later prompted Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan to revise their chart rules. Physical editions followed in April 2004, issued by NPG Records and distributed by Columbia Records, marking Prince’s first major‑label partnership in five years.