Prince's Purple Rain album returns to No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Soundtrack Albums chart, where it has spent more than 1,000 weeks. NEW ORLEANS - JULY 2: Prince performs at the 10th Anniversary ...

The No. 1-ranked soundtrack of all time is getting fresh recognition more than four decades after its release.

Prince’s Purple Rain doubles in sales from one week to the next in the U.S., helping the title reenter several Billboard charts. DETROIT, MI - NOVEMBER 4: American singer Prince (1958-2016) performs ...

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For all he did during his magnificent career, much of Prince’s legend comes courtesy of Purple Rain, the album he and the Revolution released 40 years ago this month, and the movie of the same name ...

After your masterplan succeeds and so many of your dreams come true… then what? That is a question a 26-year-old Prince may well have been asking himself after “Purple Rain” transformed him into a ...

The album gave the twenty-six-year-old Minneapolis native his first Number One hits, and the movie, while not critically lauded, was a box office success. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the ...

Your copy of Purple Rain sounds terrible. That’s no knock against the music, that urgent neon bug-funk zeitgeist bomb Prince straddled and launched and screamed on as it blew up the world, kind of ...

It’s simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting to think that, were he still alive, Prince may have collaborated with Parton on this tribute, as many others did on the album. But, as it stands, the ...