✦ Anthology: 1995–2010 – Digital Compilation: 2018

✦ — SUMMARY

Released August 17, 2018 by NPG Records and Legacy Recordings, Anthology: 1995–2010 arrived alongside the Prince estate’s decision to make the majority of Prince’s mid‑career catalogue available on all major streaming platforms. Previously, these albums — from The Gold Experience (1995) through 20Ten (2010) — were exclusive to Tidal.

The compilation features 37 tracks curated to showcase Prince’s prolific, genre‑shifting NPG era. Notably absent is “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” omitted due to a long‑standing copyright dispute that prevented its reissue until after Prince’s passing.

✦ — HIGHLIGHTS

• Released August 17, 2018 on all major streaming platforms

• Curated by NPG Records and Legacy Recordings

• 37‑track digital‑only compilation

• Coincided with the estate’s wide streaming rollout of 1995–2010 albums

• Excludes “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” due to unresolved copyright issues

• Covers the era from The Gold Experience through 20Ten

✦ — TRACK DETAILS

Digital Compilation – NPG Records / Legacy Recordings – 2018

37 tracks total

- Endorphinmachine

- Shhh

- We March

- The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (excluded from compilation)

- Dolphin

- Now

- 319

- Shy

- Billy Jack Bitch

- Gold

- Chaos and Disorder

- I Like It There

- Dinner with Delores

- The Same December

- Zannalee

- I Rock, Therefore I Am

- Somebody’s Somebody

- Get Yo Groove On

- The Holy River

- Face Down

- Sleep Around

- Newpower Soul

- Come On

- The One

- The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

- Hot Wit U

- U Make My Sun Shine

- The Work Pt. 1

- U’re Gonna C Me

- Musicology

- Call My Name

- Cinnamon Girl

- Black Sweat

- Fury

- Guitar

- Chelsea Rodgers

- Colonized Mind

- Beginning Endlessly

- Future Soul Song

- Sticky Like Glue

- Laydown

(Note: Some platforms list 37 tracks; others include bonus tracks depending on region. This list reflects the standard 37‑track configuration.)

✦ — REISSUES & GLOBAL VARIANTS

(Verified via Prince Vault, Discogs, Legacy Recordings)

2018 Original Release

• Digital — Worldwide — Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal

Catalogue Availability Shift

• Released concurrently with the estate’s move to make the 1995–2010 catalogue widely available

• First time many albums reappeared outside Tidal

Physical Formats

• No CD, vinyl, or cassette editions

✦ — PRODUCTION AND CONTEXT

• Curated by NPG Records and the Prince estate

• Released during the major posthumous catalogue restoration

• Represents Prince’s independent‑minded, genre‑blending mid‑career era

• Spans rock, funk, R&B, jazz fusion, electronic, and orchestral experiments

• Omission of “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” tied to unresolved copyright litigation

✦ — SINGLES RELEASED

• No singles issued from this compilation

✦ — CHART PERFORMANCE

• Digital compilation — not eligible for traditional charting

• Boosted streaming numbers across Prince’s 1995–2010 catalogue

✦ — DISCOGRAPHY SIDEBAR

The Gold Experience — 1995

Anthology: 1995–2010 — 2018

Originals — 2019

✦ — PRINCE ERA MINI‑TIMELINE

1995 — The Gold Experience

2010 — 20Ten

2018 — Anthology released; catalogue restored to streaming platforms

✦ — GLAM FLASHBACK

Anthology: 1995–2010 reframes Prince’s NPG era as a period of fearless experimentation — a time when he blended genres, challenged the industry, and built a new creative universe on his own terms.

✦ — COPYRIGHT NOTICE

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✦ — SOURCES

Prince Vault

Discogs

Legacy Recordings documentation

Press coverage of the 2018 streaming rollout