On October 18, 1994, Prince's fifteenth studio album, Come, was officially certified Gold by the RIAA in the United States for 500,000 copies. Come was the last album of newly recorded material released by Warner Bros. under the name Prince while he remained under the label's exclusive recording contract. The album had been released worldwide in August 1994, eleven months after The Hits 1, The Hits 2 and The Hits / The B-Sides. Prince subsequently described the album in the c