1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Lemonade' ". 1 & 2 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart with 'The Very Best Of' & 'Purple Rain' ".
" Let's Go Crazy" (Credited to Prince & The Revolution) " When Doves Cry" (Single edit credited to Prince & The Revolution) " Little Red Corvette" (Credited to Prince & The Revolution) " 1999" (Single edit credited to Prince & The Revolution) Track listing Īll songs are written by and credited to Prince, except where noted. In 2016, the album has sold 660,000 recognized copies in the United States in addition to the over 2 million copies sold prior to 2016.
The following week the album fell to number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 391,000 equivalent copies (216,000 in pure album sales) behind Beyoncé's Lemonade.
The Very Best of Prince sold 179,000 album-equivalent units (100,000 in pure album sales) in the week following Prince's death, thus allowing the album to re-enter the Billboard 200 at number one this makes the album Prince's fifth number-one on the chart. As of September 21, 2004, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling 1 million copies in the United States. On the chart dated August 18, 2001, The Very Best of Prince debuted at number 66 on the US Billboard 200. All the songs included in this compilation were all previously included in the 3-disc box set The Hits/The B-Sides (1993), with the exception of " Money Don't Matter 2 Night". AllMusic supposes that the Batman album is being unofficially written out of his discography. The Very Best of Prince does not include the US number 1 hit " Batdance" most likely due to the licensing of the character Batman. The album contains most of his commercially successful singles from 1979 to 1991 including the US number 1s " When Doves Cry", " Let's Go Crazy", " Kiss" and " Cream". It was released on July 31, 2001, by Warner Bros. The Very Best of Prince is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince.