✦ Come – Album US/UK: Aug. 1994

Prince’s final album under his own name for Warner Bros. — dark, erotic, confrontational, and born from conflict.

✦ — SUMMARY

Released August 16, 1994 in the US (Warner Bros. Records, catalogue 9 45700‑2) and in September 1994 in the UK, Come arrived during Prince’s highly publicized battle with Warner Bros. The album received minimal promotion from both sides, resulting in modest US performance (peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard 200) and becoming his first album since Controversy (1981) without a US Top 10 single. Internationally, however, it fared far better — reaching the Top 10 across Europe and hitting No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. Come stands as Prince’s final album released under his birth name for Warner Bros.; afterward, he adopted the unpronounceable Love Symbol and became known as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.”

✦ — HIGHLIGHTS

• Last Prince‑credited album for Warner Bros.

• Released during the height of the Prince vs. Warner Bros. dispute

• Minimal promotion; stronger success internationally than in the US

• UK Albums Chart: #1

• Dark, erotic, industrial‑funk aesthetic

• Includes “Letitgo,” the album’s only major single

• US catalogue: 9 45700‑2

✦ — TRACK DETAILS

LP / CD – Warner Bros. Records – 1994

Side 1

Come — 11:13

Space — 4:28

Pheromone — 5:08

Loose! — 3:27

Side 2

Papa — 2:48

Race — 4:28

Dark — 6:10

Solo — 3:48

Letitgo — 5:33

Orgasm — 1:39

Total length: ~48 minutes

✦ — REISSUES & GLOBAL VARIANTS

(Verified via Prince Vault, Discogs, Warner Records)

1994 Original Releases

• CD — Warner Bros. 9 45700‑2 — US

• CD — Warner Bros. WX 490 / 9362‑45700‑2 — UK/Europe

• Cassette — Warner Bros. — US/Europe

• LP — Limited European vinyl pressings (scarce)

Later Availability

• Digital release — Warner Bros. / NPG — Worldwide

• Vinyl reissues remain limited; originals are collectible

✦ — PRODUCTION AND CONTEXT

• Produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince

• Recorded at Paisley Park, Glam Slam Studios, and various sessions 1993–1994

• Themes: sexuality, control, death, identity, liberation

• Released amid Prince’s dispute with Warner Bros. over ownership and release schedules

• Marked the transition to the Love Symbol era

• “Orgasm” incorporates elements from Vanity 6’s “Vibrator”

✦ — SINGLES RELEASED

Letitgo — July 1994

Space (Universal Love Remix) — 1994 (select territories)

✦ — CHART PERFORMANCE

United States

• Billboard 200 — #15

• R&B Albums — Top 10

• First Prince album since Controversy without a Top 10 US single

International

• UK Albums Chart — #1

• Europe — Top 10 across multiple countries

✦ — DISCOGRAPHY SIDEBAR

The Hits / The B‑Sides — 1993

Come — 1994

The Black Album (Reissue) — 1994

The Gold Experience — 1995

✦ — PRINCE ERA MINI‑TIMELINE

1993 — Prince changes his name to the Love Symbol

Aug 1994 — Come released

1994–95 — Warner Bros. releases The Black Album and The Gold Experience

1995 — Prince intensifies fight for artistic ownership

✦ — GLAM FLASHBACK

Come is Prince at his most confrontational — erotic, industrial, and defiantly uncommercial. Born from label conflict and personal reinvention, it stands as a dark jewel in his catalogue, marking the end of “Prince” and the beginning of the Artist.

✦ — COPYRIGHT NOTICE

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✦ — SOURCES

Prince Vault

Discogs

Warner Bros. Records catalogue data

UK Official Charts Company

Billboard archives