1999 (Prince album)

April 2016 1999 studio Prince Prince -1999.jpg 1982 10 27 January–August 1982 * Kiowa Trail Home Studio (Chanhassen, Minnesota) Sunset Sound Recorders (Hollywood, California) * Minneapolis sound funk synth-pop R&B dance new wave art pop 70 29 Warner Bros. Prince Prince Controversy 1981 Purple Rain 1984 1999 studio 1999 September 24, 1982 Little Red Corvette February 9, 1983 Delirious August 17, 1983 Let's Pretend We're Married November 23, 1983 1999 is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter and musician Prince, released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was released as a double album and was his first to be recorded with his band the Revolution. 1999 critical and commercial success propelled Prince to a place in the public psyche and marked the beginning of two years of heightened fame via his following releases. 1999 was Prince's first top ten album on the Billboard 200, charting at number nine upon release, and was fifth in the Billboard Year-End Albums of 1983. "1999", a protest against nuclear proliferation, was a Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit, peaking at number 12. It has since become one of Prince's most recognizable compositions. "Delirious" reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Little Red Corvette" peaked at number six, becoming Prince's highest charting U.S. single at the time. "International Lover" was also nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards, which was Prince's first Grammy Award nomination. 1999 received widespread acclaim from critics, and was seen as Prince's breakthrough album. On March 24, 1999, 1999 was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven, besting its original performance on the chart 33 years earlier. A re-release and remaster of the album, including 35 previously unreleased recordings, was released in November 2019.https://globalnews.ca/news/5888490/prince-estate-199-reissue-unreleased-songs/ Prince estate to reissue '1999' along with 35 previously unreleased songs Wallis Adam Global News September 11, 2019 May 3, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20190912124500/https://globalnews.ca/news/5888490/prince-estate-199-reissue-unreleased-songs/ September 12, 2019 1999 has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time by several publications and organizations.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/prince-1999-2-51522/ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 199 – Prince, '1999' Rolling Stone May 31, 2012 September 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20100306031441/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6599091/163_1999 March 6, 2010 The music videos for both "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" received heavy rotation on MTV, making Prince one of the first Black artists to be prominently featured on the television channel.https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/prince-1999-reissue-35-unheard-songs-8529630/ Prince '1999' Reissue to Feature 35 Unheard Songs Billboard September 10, 2019 January 6, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20220519153000/https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/prince-1999-reissue-35-unheard-songs-8529630/ May 19, 2022 According to the Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), "1999 may be Prince's most influential album: Its synth-and-drum machine-heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid-'80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades' worth of electro, house, and techno." It is also included on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2008, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#1 Grammy Hall of Fame Award Grammy.com May 3, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20240401120000/https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award April 1, 2024 The Recording Academy Composition "1999" has been described as a work of Minneapolis sound,Nathan Brackett Christian David Hoard The New Rolling Stone Album Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA655 2004 Simon & Schuster 978-0-7432-0169-8 655 funk, synth-pop,https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/princes-1999-how-the-synth-pop-masterpiece-launched-a-movement-125352/ Prince's '1999': How the synth-pop masterpiece launched a movement Rob Sheffield October 27, 2017 Rolling Stone September 22, 2026 R&B,Kory Grow Prince's '1999' Box Set Contains Incredible Alternate Universe of Unreleased Songs Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/princes-1999-super-deluxe-edition-review-915651/ November 26, 2019 dance, new wave Pitchfork Staff The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s Pitchfork September 10, 2018 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/ ...1999 remains a high-water mark of nuclear new wave madness... April 25, 2023https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/thirteen-new-wave-album-classics Thirteen New Wave Album Classics AllMusic May 7, 2023 de Visé Daniel and art pop.Format Team A Visual Celebration of Prince Through His Album Covers https://www.format.com/magazine/profile/photography/prince-dead-celebration-album-covers Format April 21, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161104012752/https://www.format.com/magazine/features/design/prince-dead-celebration-album-covers November 4, 2016 It also marks a sharp turn towards art-pop with this illustrative cover in pure 80’s psychedelic style. The album's opening title track, "1999", was also its first single and initially peaked at 44 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.Longbored Surfer - 1983 http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1983 Longbored Surfer It was subsequently re-released following the huge success of its follow-up single and 1999s second track, "Little Red Corvette", which peaked at number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Lisa Coleman–who sang on the album–recalled how Prince came up with "Little Red Corvette" after sleeping in her pink Mercury Montclair Maurauder.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/20/1 Interview: Wendy and Lisa The Guardian September 19, 2008 Shortly after being reissued, "1999" reached number 12, and subsequently became one of Prince's most recognizable compositions.Music: Top 100 Songs Billboard Hot 100 Chart http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1983-07-23 Billboard The music videos for both "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" were significant as two of the first videos by a black artist to receive heavy rotation on the newly launched music video channel, MTV, after controversy over its failure to promote Black performers.https://www.wriit.com/back-then-there-were-five-the-black-arists-and-their-videos-that-changed-80s-mtv/ Back then There Were Five: The Black Arists (And Their Videos) that Changed 80's MTV Wriit Armstead Thaddeus June 5, 2019https://consequence.net/2020/06/david-bowie-mtv-black-artists-1983-interview-watch/ David Bowie takes MTV to task for not playing Black artists in 1983: Watch June 17, 2020 Consequence Kaye Ben The two tracks were later combined as a double A-side single in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number two. A subsequent single from the album and its third chronological track, the rockabilly-influenced "Delirious", still managed top ten status in the United States at number eight, but a fourth, the double-sided single "Let's Pretend We're Married"/"Irresistible Bitch", got no further than number 52.https://www.billboard.com/artist/prince/chart-history/hsi/ Prince Billboard While "Little Red Corvette" helped Prince cross over to the wider rock audience,https://www.ft.com/content/35eb34c2-c5fd-11e6-8f29-9445cac8966f The Life of a Song: '1999' Financial Times December 26, 2016 Cheal David the rest of 1999 retains the funk elements featured in previous albums and is dominated by the use of synthesizers and drum machines. The album is, however, notable within Prince's catalogue for its wide variety of themes in addition to the sexual imagery which had already become something of a trademark on his previous work.https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/prince-1999/ Review: Prince, 1999 Slant Magazine December 12, 2003 Henderson Eric "Automatic", extending to almost ten minutes, starts side three of the album with a prominent synthesizer melody and bondage-inspired lyrical imagery which, transplanted to the music video for the track (with a scene that depicted Prince being tied up and whipped by band-members Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones), had been deemed too sexual for MTV in 1983.https://diffuser.fm/prince-automatic/ Prince Explores Motivations of the Flesh on 'Automatic' October 19, 2017 Diffuser.fm "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)", an ode to a harsh lover, is the centerpiece of a preoccupation with Computer Age themes that would continue into future albums.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/legitimately-magical-prince-album A Legitimately Magical Prince Album The New Yorker September 29, 2014 Greenman Benhttps://diffuser.fm/prince-my-computer/ Prince Finds Hope Among Crushing Loneliness on 'My Computer': 365 Prince Songs in a Year August 24, 2017 Diffuser.fm This is also reflected in various aspects of the album's instrumentation, with Prince fully embracing the gadgetry and sounds of emergent electro-funk and 1980s sequencing technology on tracks like "Let's Pretend We're Married" and "All the Critics Love U in New York", songs that widen his use of synthesizers and prominently feature the use of a Linn LM-1 drum machine. 1999 also contains two ballads in "Free", a piano piece encouraging people to count their blessings and be thankful for what they have, and "International Lover", a slow-paced love song for which Prince received his first Grammy Award nomination in 1984 under the category of Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.http://www.gossipcop.com/prince-death-grammys-statement-reaction-grammy-awards-recording-academy/ Grammys Mourn Prince – See Statement From Grammy Awards Recording Academy April 24, 2016 April 21, 2016 Gossip Cop Weiss, Shari April 24, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160424001854/http://www.gossipcop.com/prince-death-grammys-statement-reaction-grammy-awards-recording-academy/ dead Release 1999 was released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was the fifth album released by Prince. 1999 was Prince's first top 10 album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number nine. It was fifth in the Billboard Year-End Albums of 1983. Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 and peaked at number seven, besting its original performance on the chart 33 years earlier. It also peaked in the top ten in New Zealand, reaching number six on the New Zealand Albums Chart in 1982. Remastered, Deluxe and Super Deluxe re-issues The album was released as a Remastered, Deluxe and Super Deluxe edition on November 29, 2019. The most elaborate re-issue contains five CDs featuring previously unreleased tracks, and a live DVD, with a total running time of 5 hours and 53 minutes.https://www.vibe.com/2019/09/princes-estate-to-reissue-1999-album-with-unreleased-songs-concert-footage Prince's Estate to Reissue '1999' Album with Unreleased Songs, Concert Footage September 12, 2019 Vibe It reached the top 20 of the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands and Hungary. Reception and legacy 100/100(2019 edition)https://www.metacritic.com/music/1999-super-deluxe-edition/prince 1999 [Super Deluxe Edition] by Prince Reviews and Tracks Metacritic 12 September 2021 AllMusic 5 5Erlewine Stephen Thomas Stephen Thomas Erlewine https://www.allmusic.com/album/1999-mw0000191482 1999 – Prince AllMusic September 15, 2011 Blender 4 5Harris Keith http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2285.html Prince – Every Original CD Reviewed: 1999 Blender 1 New York June–July 2001 April 8, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20040820041625/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2285.html August 20, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times 4 4Keller Martin https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4163508.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170408171728/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4163508.html usurped April 8, 2017 A Prince Discography Chicago Sun-Times April 4, 1993 April 8, 2017 HighBeam Research subscription Entertainment Weekly A−Browne David David Browne (journalist) https://ew.com/article/1990/09/21/decade-prince-albums/ Purple Products Entertainment Weekly 32 New York September 21, 1990 August 6, 2011 October 19, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141019192816/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318219,00.html live The Guardian 5 5Price Simon Simon Price https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/22/prince-every-album-rated-and-ranked Prince: every album rated – and ranked The Guardian London April 22, 2016 April 25, 2016 Pitchfork 10/10Johnston Maura Maura Johnston http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21842-1999/ Prince: 1999 Pitchfork April 30, 2016 May 1, 2016 Rolling Stone 4 5Hill Michael https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/1999-19821209 Prince: 1999 Rolling Stone 384 New York December 9, 1982 September 15, 2011 0035-791X https://web.archive.org/web/20070717203058/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/prince/albums/album/94510/review/6067876/1999 July 17, 2007 live The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5 5Matos Michaelangelo Prince The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian Simon & Schuster New York 4th 2004 0-7432-0169-8 654–57 The Rolling Stone Album Guide Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10Prince Spin Alternative Record Guide Weisbard Eric Marks Craig Vintage Books New York 1995 0-679-75574-8 Spin Alternative Record Guide The Village Voice A−Christgau Robert Robert Christgau http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv12-82.php Consumer Guide The Village Voice New York December 28, 1982 March 10, 2012 1999 was well received by contemporary critics. Reviewing for Rolling Stone in December 1982, Michael Hill praised Prince for "working like a colorblind technician who's studied both Devo and Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, keeping the [1999s] songs constantly kinetic with an inventive series of shocks and surprises."https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/1999-2-111958/ 1999 Hill Michael December 9, 1982 Rolling Stone January 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200108103000/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/1999-2-111958/ January 8, 2020 The Village Voice reviewer Robert Christgau was more reserved in his praise. While conceding that, "like every black pop auteur, Prince commands his own personal groove ... stretching his flat funk forcebeat onto two discs worth of deeply useful dance tracks", he also believed that the musician's only reliable subject remains race, leaving him with doubts about the messages behind the sex and apocalyptic songs. Retrospective appraisals have been even more favorable. According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), "1999 may be Prince's most influential album: Its synth-and-drum machine-heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid-'80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades' worth of electro, house, and techno."https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/prince/biography Prince: Biography Rolling Stone May 3, 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20061021232241/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/prince/biography October 21, 2006 live Paul A. Thompson of Pitchfork noted the way Prince "marshal[led] the Reagan years and the LM-1 for his own purposes" has rarely been replicated and called 1999 a "rare record that has come to define its era while also existing outside of it, a masterpiece that immediately precedes the albums Prince fashioned, conspicuously, as masterpieces." Thompson also described the album as a "computer breathing."https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/prince-1999/ Prince: 1999 Pitchfork September 15, 2019 January 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190915152000/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/prince-1999/ September 15, 2019 Thompson Paul A. Also for Pitchfork in 2016, Maura Johnston wrote that through the "balancing synth-funk explorations... taut pop construction, genre-bending, and the proto-nuclear fallout of lust, 1999 still sounds like a landmark release in 2016". Johnston further praised Prince's "singular vision and willingness to indulge his curiosities" for creating an "apocalypse-anticipating album that, perhaps paradoxically, was built to last for decades and even centuries to come."https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21842-1999/ Prince: 1999 Pitchfork April 30, 2016 January 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20160430152500/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21842-1999/ April 30, 2016 Johnston Maura Writing for Slant Magazine, Eric Henderson called 1999 a "massive, sexy, rump-shaking, and sometimes even disturbing masterpiece" and stated that even though it may not be better than Dirty Mind, Purple Rain, and Sign o' the Times, the album represented a "quantum leap in sophistication and scope." Henderson also claimed that 1999 raised the bar for '80s funk.https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/prince-1999/ Review: Prince, 1999 Henderson Eric December 12, 2003 Slant Magazine January 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200108101500/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/prince-1999/ January 8, 2020 1999 has appeared on professional listings of the greatest albums. In 1989, Rolling Stone ranked 1999 16th on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s. In 2003, VH1 placed 1999 number 48 in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums.Rock On The Net: VH1: 100 Greatest Albums http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2001/vh1albums.htm Rock On The Net October 24, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161025123000/http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2001/vh1albums.htm October 25, 2016 The album was also part of Slant Magazines list The 50 Most Essential Pop Albumshttps://www.slantmagazine.com/features/vital-pop-50-essential-pop-albums/ Vital Pop: 50 Essential Pop Albums Slant Magazine June 30, 2003 August 6, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20200511153000/https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/vital-pop-50-essential-pop-albums/ May 11, 2020 and the magazine listed the album at number eight on its list of Best Albums of the 1980s.https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/best-albums-of-the-1980s/ The 100 Best Albums of the 1980s Slant Magazine March 5, 2012 November 20, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20120306102000/https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/best-albums-of-the-1980s/ March 6, 2012 In 2003, the album was ranked number 163 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It maintained the rating in a 2012 revised list,https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/prince-1999-3-157864/ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 199 – Prince, '1999' May 31, 2012 September 18, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190919101000/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/prince-1999-3-157864/ September 19, 2019 Rolling Stone and was re-ranked number 130 in 2020.https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/prince-1999-4-1063103/ The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 130 – Prince, '1999' Rolling Stone September 22, 2020 February 13, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20200922154500/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/prince-1999-4-1063103/ September 22, 2020 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.Dimery Robert Lydon Michael 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition March 23, 2010 Universe 978-0-7893-2074-2 The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. Track listing Original album Side one Prince 1999 6:15 Little Red Corvette 5:03 Delirious 4:00 15:18 Side two Let's Pretend We're Married 7:21 D.M.S.R. 8:17 15:38 Side three Automatic 9:28 Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) 4:02 Free 5:08 18:38 Side four Lady Cab Driver 8:19 All the Critics Love U in New York 5:59 International Lover 6:37 20:55 70:29Single LP variant Side one 1999 6:15 Little Red Corvette 5:03 Delirious 4:00 Free 5:08 20:26 Side two Let's Pretend We're Married 7:21 Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) 4:02 Lady Cab Driver 8:19 19:42 40:08Notes''' Originally released on vinyl as a double LP (the first of a number of double sets from Prince), 1999 was cut to a single vinyl edition in some countries, omitting "D.M.S.R.", "Automatic", "All the Critics Love U in New York" and "International Lover"; the single LP variant was reissued as part of Record Store Day 2018.https://thefutureheart.com/2018/04/13/prince-1999-record-store-day-releases-vinyl-rsd-release-list-rumors-anticipated-recordstoreday-little-red-corvette-warner-uk-picture-storr-rumours-metal-copies-live-when-april-disc-full-rsd18 Rare Prince '1999' LP Single To Be Reissued On Record Store Day The Future Heart April 13, 2018 The original CD version of the album was also cut, omitting "D.M.S.R." There is a notice on the back cover of the original compact disc pressing that reads "To enable the release of 1999 as a single compact disc, the song 'D.M.S.R.' has been omitted from the original LP edition." Later compact disc pressings (from a 1990 reissue onward) included the track. On the cassette release, "Free" was placed after "D.M.S.R." to end the first side, balancing out the lengths of both sides of the cassette. Remastered, deluxe and super deluxe editions The Remastered edition contains a remaster of the original album. The Deluxe edition contains the remaster and a bonus disc with all the single, maxi-single and promo mixes as well as the B-sides. The Super Deluxe edition contains four more discs: Two of them contain 24 previously unissued studio tracks, the third contains a complete live audio performance of the 1999 Tour recorded at the late show (the second of two that day) in Detroit, Michigan, on November 30, 1982, and a DVD with another complete, previously unreleased concert from the 1999 Tour, recorded in multi-cam live at The Summit in Houston, Texas on December 29, 1982.https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/prince-1999-super-deluxe-reissue-offers-a-wealth-of-unreleased-material/ Sinclair Paul 11 September 2019 Prince/1999 Super Deluxe Reissue Offers a Wealth of Unreleased Material Super Deluxe Edition The albums were also issued on vinyl in a 2 LP, 4 LP and 10 LP + DVD set.https://store.prince.com/dept/1999-remastered?cp=103229_106293 1999 Remastered Shop the Prince Official Store The Super Deluxe edition and the Deluxe edition are both completely out of print physically. Disc 2: Promo Mixes & B-Sides 1999 7" Stereo Edit 3:37 1999 7" Mono Promo-Only Edit 3:35 Free Promo-Only Edit 4:36 How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? "1999" B-Side 3:55 Little Red Corvette 7" Edit 3:08 All the Critics Love U In New York 7" Edit 3:16 Lady Cab Driver 7" Edit 5:06 Little Red Corvette Dance Remix Promo-Only Edit 4:34 Little Red Corvette Special Dance Mix 8:31 Delirious 7" Edit 2:39 Horny Toad "Delirious" B-Side 2:13 Automatic 7" Edit 3:40 Automatic Video Version 8:21 Let's Pretend We're Married 7" Edit 3:45 Let's Pretend We're Married 7" Mono Promo-Only Edit 3:44 Irresistible Bitch "Let's Pretend We're Married" B-Side 4:14 Let's Pretend We're Married Video Version 4:03 D.M.S.R. Edit 5:06 Disc 3: Vault Tracks I Feel U Up 6:42 Irresistible Bitch 4:39 Money Don't Grow on Trees 4:19 Vagina 3:28 Rearrange 6:11 Bold Generation 5:54 Colleen 5:30 International Lover Take 1, Live in Studio 7:20 Turn It Up 5:23 You're All I Want 3:00 Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) Original Version 4:00 If It'll Make U Happy 4:12 How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? Take 2, Live in Studio 6:11 Disc 4: Vault Tracks II Possessed 1982 version 8:47 Delirious Full-Length 6:00 Purple Music 10:58 Yah, You Know 3:11 Moonbeam Levels previously released on the 2016 compilation 4Ever 4:23 No Call U 4:30 Can't Stop This Feeling I Got 2:40 Do Yourself a Favor written by Pepé Willie and Jesse Johnson 9:01 Don't Let Him Fool Ya 4:35 Teacher, Teacher 3:37 Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Head / Little Red Corvette Tour Demo 7:00 Disc 5: Live in Detroit 11/30/82 Controversy 5:41 Let's Work 5:27 Little Red Corvette 4:18 Do Me, Baby 7:18 Head 4:13 Uptown 2:55 Interlude 2:15 How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? 7:03 Automatic 7:02 International Lover 8:41 1999 10:25 D.M.S.R. 8:03 Disc 6 (DVD): Live in Houston 12/29/82 Controversy 5:01 Let's Work 5:24 Do Me, Baby 6:21 D.M.S.R. 4:28 Interlude 3:35 Piano Improvisation Contains Elements of "With You" 1:38 How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? 8:18 Lady Cab Driver 3:30 Automatic 5:47 International Lover 9:52 1999 8:09 Head 5:54 Contains Elements of "Sexuality" Personnel Credits adapted from Jake Brown, Benoît Clerc, Reverb, the Super Deluxe booklet,Brown Jake Prince 'in the Studio' (1975-1995) 2011-05-01 Amber Communications Group, Inc. 9780979097669Clerc Benoît Prince: All the Songs October 2022 Octopus 97817847288162018-04-23 The Synth Sounds of Prince's "1999" https://reverb.com/news/the-synth-sounds-of-princes-1999 2025-06-11 Reverb.com en1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) 2019-11-29 Prince Prince (musician) CD en 603497850068 and Guitarcloud. 1999 Guitarcloud - Prince Equipment Archive https://www.guitarcloud.org/era/1999/ 2026-07-31 Guitarcloud en Musicians Prince – lead and backing vocals (all tracks), electric guitar (tracks 1–3, 5–6, 8–11), bass (tracks 1–6, 8–11), Steinway piano (track 8), synthesizers (tracks 2, 4, 6, 8–10), ARP Omni (track 1), Oberheim OB-SX (track 7), Oberheim OB-X (tracks 1, 11), Oberheim OB-Xa (track 3), Oberheim OB-8 (track 5), Linn LM-1 (tracks 1–10), drums (tracks 1, 9, 11 (possible)), claps (tracks 1, 5), Pearl SY-1 Syncussion (tracks 1–2, 4), finger snaps (track 11) Lisa Coleman – co-lead vocals (track 1), backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 5–6, 8), claps (track 5) Dez Dickerson – co-lead vocals (track 1), backing vocals (tracks 1–2, 5), electric guitar solo (track 2), claps (track 5) Jesse Johnson – backing vocals (track 1) Jill Jones – co-lead vocals (track 1), backing vocals (tracks 1, 6, 8), moans (track 9), claps (track 6) Bobby Z. – electronic percussion (tracks 1, 5), cymbals (track 5) Brownmark, The Count, Peggy McCreary, Carol McGovney, Poochie, Jamie Shoop – backing vocals (track 5), claps (track 5) Wendy Melvoin, Vanity – backing vocals (track 8) Morris Day – drums (track 11 (possible)) Production Prince – producer Don Batts – engineer (tracks 1–2, 7) David Leonard, Peggy McCreary – mixing, engineers Bernie Grundman – mastering (A&M Records) While not performance credited for the studio recordings, band members Doctor Fink (keyboards), Bobby Z. (drums) and Brown Mark (bass) do appear in the music videos. Singles "1999" (No. Number 12 US, No. Number 4 US R&B, No. Number 25 UK) "1999" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" "Little Red Corvette" (No. Number 6 US, No. Number 15 US R&B, No. Number 54 UK) "Little Red Corvette" "All the Critics Love U in New York" "Delirious" (No. Number 8 US, No. Number 18 US R&B) "Delirious" "Horny Toad" "Automatic" (AUS) "Automatic" "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)" "Let's Pretend We're Married" (No. Number 52 US, No. Number 55 US R&B) "Let's Pretend We're Married" "Irresistible Bitch" Charts Weekly charts Original version +1982–1985 weekly chart performance for 1999 Chart (1982) PositionAustralian Albums (Kent Music Report)Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 Kent David David Kent (historian) Australian Chart Book St Ives, NSW 1993 0-646-11917-6 Kent Music Report35Canada RPM 23 4265 July 7, 2017 trueNetherlands 45 Prince 1999 true July 7, 2017New Zealand 6 Prince 1999 true July 7, 2017UK2 30 19870405 true July 7, 2017 UKAlbumBillboard200 9 Prince true July 7, 2017BillboardRandBHipHop 4 Prince 1999 true July 7, 2017 +2016 weekly chart performance for 1999 Chart (2016) PositionSwitzerland 51 Prince 1999 true May 4, 2016UK2 28 20160429 true July 7, 2017Billboard200 7 Prince true July 7, 2017 BB200-2016 2019 reissue +2019 weekly chart performance for 1999 reissue Chart (2019) PositionAustria 72 Prince 1999 true December 12, 2019Flanders 12 Prince 1999 true December 7, 2019Netherlands 15 Prince 1999 true December 7, 2019 NL2019Germany 37 6971 Prince 1999 true December 6, 2019Hungary 13 2019 49 Prince 1999 true December 12, 2019Portugal 39 Prince 1999 true December 15, 2019UK 46 Prince 1999 true December 12, 2019Billboard200 45 Prince true December 14, 2019 BB200-2019 Year-end charts +1983 year-end chart performance for 1999 Chart (1983) Position New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/annual-albums/1983-12-31 Top Selling Albums of 1983 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart Recorded Music New Zealand February 2, 2022 24US Billboard 200http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855401?imw=Y https://archive.today/20121231130338/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855401?imw=Y dead December 31, 2012 Top Pop Albums of 1983 Billboard April 24, 2014 December 31, 19835US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1983/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1983 Billboard March 5, 20214 +1984 year-end chart performance for 1999 Chart (1984) PositionUS Billboard 200http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855368?imw=Y https://archive.today/20121231160407/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855368?imw=Y dead December 31, 2012 Top Pop Albums of 1984 Billboard April 2, 2014 1984-12-3122 +1985 year-end chart performance for 1999 Chart (1985) PositionUS Billboard 200https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1985/top-billboard-200-albums Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1985 Billboard April 11, 202195 +2016 year-end chart performance for 1999 Chart (2016) PositionUS Billboard 200https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-billboard-200-albums Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2016 Billboard August 1, 2021200 Certifications Certifications for 1999 1999 Prince album 1982 Canada Gold May 2, 2013 album New Zealand oldchart Prince 1999 Gold 3070 1982 https://web.archive.org/web/20191209101059/https://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=3070 2019-12-09 November 19, 2019 1999 Prince album 1982 United Kingdom Platinum April 2, 2014 82-1115-2 1999 Prince album 1982 United States Platinum 4 May 2, 2013 single Worldwide true 7,010,000 https://memoria.bn.gov.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=029670_08&pesq=vendas&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.gov.br&pagfis=60385 O Dia Prince: muito discos, poucas vendas August 10, 2023 Otávio Souza Filho December 20, 1992 7 true References Citations Sources Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition Simon and Schuster 2004 978-0-7432-0169-8 https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac External links 55667 1999'' at Prince Vault Podcast https://web.archive.org/web/20191128161907/https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2019/11/15/prince-story-1999-episode-one November 28, 2019 Category:1982 albums Category:Prince (musician) albums Category:Albums produced by Prince (musician) Category:Warner Records albums Category:Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Category:Albums recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders Category:Albums recorded in a home studio Category:Funk albums by American artists Category:Art pop albums Category:Dance music albums by American artists Category:New wave albums by American artists Category: Synth-pop albums by American artists