My Name Is Prince was released in the United States across an unusually wide array of formats in late 1992, reflecting Prince’s full‑scale push behind the second single from the Love Symbol album. While the US 12-inch vinyl maxi‑single arrived on October 22, 1992, most other US formats — including the 7-inch, CD single, cassette single, cassette maxi‑single, CD maxi‑single, Digipak edition, and multiple promotional CDs — were issued earlier on September 1, 1992 under Paisley