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Lotusflow3r (2009)

Where the lyrics of Lotusflow3r take you, and where it was really made.

This album was never sold alone: it came out as one disc of a 3-disc set that Target sold exclusively in the US.

Key places

Recording at Paisley Park Studios (2009)

Recording site Paisley Park Studios — The album was recorded and mixed by Richard Furch. Paisley Park Studios is listed as the recording location for this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Lotusflow3r is one of three albums in a set by Prince and protégée Bria Valente
• The set contains Prince's 33rd and 34th studio albums, Lotusflow3r and MPLSound
• The set also includes Elixer, the debut studio album by Bria Valente
• Released March 24, 2009 by NPG Records
• The three albums were sold together as a 3-disc set, exclusively in the United States at Target
• In Europe the albums were available from online music stores

Background

• In December 2008, four songs premiered on Los Angeles radio station Indie 103: 'Crimson and Clover', '4ever', 'Colonized Mind' and 'Wall of Berlin'
• A month later, Los Angeles Times coverage mentioned more song titles, including 'Hey Valentina' and 'Better with Time'
• Prince launched mplsound.com in December 2008 to build excitement
• The site was shut down a month later and replaced by the interactive website lotusflow3r.com
• 'Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful' had been posted on the NPG Music Club website as a one-minute demo in 2006
• 'Kept Woman' comes from the unreleased 2006 project Milk and Honey with Támar

Recording

• The album was recorded and mixed by Richard Furch
• On the digital version, 'Crimson and Clover' was replaced by the 2006 outtake 'The Morning After'

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Prince Rogers Nelson, born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; died April 21, 2016 at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
• Signed with Warner Bros. Records in 1977 at age 18; first album For You released April 7, 1978.
• Career spanned funk, rock, R&B and pop, with estimated sales over 100 million records.

Career

• Breakthrough with Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981) and 1999 (1982).
• Purple Rain (1984) made him the first singer to hold the number-one film, album and single in the US at the same time.
• Sign o' the Times (1987) is widely considered his greatest work.
• Changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993, becoming known as the Artist Formerly Known as Prince; reverted to Prince in 2000.
• Won seven Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 168,000 copies in its first week
• Lotusflow3r and MPLSound received generally mixed to positive reviews from most music critics
• Metacritic aggregate scores for the two albums were 61 and 62 out of 100

Records

• US Billboard 200 debut: number two, 168,000 copies in the first week
• Prince's fourth consecutive top-three album in the United States
• Narrowly missed number one, selling 3,000 copies fewer than Keith Urban's Defying Gravity
• As of February 1, 2012, 543,700 units sold according to SoundScan

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The physical release came a few days after the digital launch, sold as a Target exclusive for US$11.98
• Although released only in the US, many copies were exported for sale in Europe
• Prince performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno three nights in a row, March 25–27, as announced on March 11, 2009
• 'Crimson and Clover' includes an interpolation of Chip Taylor's 'Wild Thing'
• The official lotusflow3r.com site opened on March 24, 2009, at 7:07 pm PST

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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