Purple Rain

Soundtrack album by Prince
Released	June 25, 1984
Recorded	1983
Genre	Rock, Pop, Funk
Length	43:50
Label	Warner Brothers Records
Producer(s)	Prince
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Prince chronology
1999 (1982)	Purple Rain (1984)	Around the World in a Day (1985)

Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain" (also called just Purple Rain) was a 1984 album by Prince and The Revolution. It was released by Warner Brothers Records and was Prince's sixth album. It sold 13 million units in the United States, earning a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America. According to Billboard magazine, the album spent an incredible 24 consecutive weeks at #1, becoming one of the top soundtracks ever. According to one source, the album sold more than a million copies on the day of its release.

In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Purple Rain the 73rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 18. Rolling Stone named it the number 2 album of the 1980s.

As was often the case, Prince wrote all of the songs on the album. Some of the tracks had portions recorded live when Prince performed on August 3, 1983 at the First Avenue club in Minneapolis. This show was a benefit concert for the Minnesota Dance Theater. It was also the first appearance in Prince's band "The Revolution" by Wendy Melvoin, his guitarist in the Purple Rain film and for a few years afterwards.

Prince won 3 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Special (Purple Rain) and Best R&B Song (songwriter) (Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You") and was nominated for Album of the Year (Purple Rain). Purple Rain also won an Oscar for Best Original Score in 1985. [1]