This June, The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Bros. Records and TIDAL, will release ORIGINALS, a 15-track album featuring 14 previously unreleased recordings that illuminates the vital, behind-the-scenes role Prince played in other artists’ careers.
ORIGINALS pulls back the curtain to reveal the origins of a number of familiar and iconic songs, in addition to deeper album cuts such as Vanity 6’s ‘Make-Up,’ Jill Jones’s ‘Baby, You’re a Trip,’ and Kenny Rogers’ ‘You’re My Love.’ The album also features Prince’s majestic original 1984 version of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ released in 2018 as a standalone single.
The tracks were selected collaboratively by Troy Carter, on behalf of The Prince Estate, and JAY-Z. The album will be available exclusively on Tidal on June 7, with CD and digital formats to follow on June 21, with deluxe editions and vinyl will be available in July.