4Ever (album)

4Ever, also known as Prince 4Ever, is a greatest hits album by American recording artist Prince, released on November 22, 2016, by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records.[2][3][4][5] It is the first Prince release following the musician's death on April 21, 2016.

4Ever
Greatest hits album by Prince
Released	November 22, 2016
Recorded	October 1977 – May 1993
Genre	Pop rock funk
Label	NPG Warner Bros.
Producer	Prince
Prince chronology
Hit n Run Phase Two (2015) 4Ever (2016) Anthology: 1995–2010 (2018)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The two-disc set features 40 songs from Prince's tenure with Warner Bros. Records and features recordings from all of his albums between 1978's For You and 1993's The Hits/The B-Sides. It is the first Prince collection to include his number-one hit single "Batdance" from the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman.[6]

4Ever features the first official release of the song "Moonbeam Levels", which had previously circulated on bootlegs of Prince's unreleased material in a low-quality form.[7] The song had been recorded in 1982 during the sessions for 1999 and was subsequently considered for the unreleased 1989 album Rave unto the Joy Fantastic.[8]

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"1999" (single version)	Prince	1999 (1982)	3:38
2.	"Little Red Corvette" (single version)	Prince	1999	3:08
3.	"When Doves Cry" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain (1984)	3:48
4.	"Let's Go Crazy" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain	3:50
5.	"Raspberry Beret"	Prince	Around the World in a Day (1985)	3:35
6.	"I Wanna Be Your Lover" (single version)	Prince	Prince (1979)	3:00
7.	"Soft and Wet"	Prince, Chris Moon	For You (1978)	3:05
8.	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?"	Prince	Prince	3:50
9.	"Uptown" (single version)	Prince	Dirty Mind (1980)	4:12
10.	"When You Were Mine"	Prince	Dirty Mind	3:45
11.	"Head"	Prince	Dirty Mind	4:45
12.	"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)"	Prince	non-album single (1981)	2:57
13.	"Controversy" (single version)	Prince	Controversy (1981)	3:39
14.	"Let's Work" (single version)	Prince	Controversy	3:04
15.	"Delirious" (single version)	Prince	1999	2:41
16.	"I Would Die 4 U" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain	3:00
17.	"Take Me with U" (single version)	Prince	Purple Rain	3:44
18.	"Paisley Park"	Prince	Around the World in a Day	4:45
19.	"Pop Life"	Prince	Around the World in a Day	3:45
20.	"Purple Rain"	Prince	Purple Rain	8:42

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Kiss" (single version)	Prince	Parade (1986)	3:46
2.	"Sign o' the Times" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times (1987)	3:43
3.	"Alphabet St." (single version)	Prince	Lovesexy (1988)	2:26
4.	"Batdance" (single version)	Prince	Batman (1989)	4:07
5.	"Thieves in the Temple"	Prince	Graffiti Bridge (1990)	3:21
6.	"Cream"	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls (1991)	4:13
7.	"Mountains"	Prince, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin	Parade	4:00
8.	"Girls & Boys" (single version)	Prince	Parade	3:28
9.	"If I Was Your Girlfriend" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times	3:46
10.	"U Got the Look"	Prince	Sign o' the Times	3:47
11.	"I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (single version)	Prince	Sign o' the Times	3:41
12.	"Glam Slam" (single version)	Prince	Lovesexy	3:30
13.	"Moonbeam Levels"	Prince	Previously unreleased (1982)	4:06
14.	"Diamonds and Pearls" (single version)	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls	4:20
15.	"Gett Off" (UK single remix)	Prince	Diamonds and Pearls	4:00
16.	"Sexy MF"	Prince, Levi Seacer Jr., Tony M.	Love Symbol Album (1992)	5:26
17.	"My Name Is Prince" (single version)	Prince, Tony M.	Love Symbol Album	4:04
18.	"7" (single version)	Prince, Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy McCracklin	Love Symbol Album	4:23
19.	"Peach"	Prince	The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)	3:48
20.	"Nothing Compares 2 U" (single version)	Prince	The Hits/The B-Sides	4:19

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts Chart (2016–17) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[9] 36 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10] 64 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11] 11 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12] 46 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[13] 40 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[14] 10 French Albums (SNEP)[15] 41 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[16] 87 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[17] 18 Irish Albums (IRMA)[18] 15 Italian Albums (FIMI)[19] 64 New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[20] 1 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[21] 29 Scottish Albums (OCC)[22] 22 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[23] 21 UK Albums (OCC)[24] 21 UK R&B Albums (OCC)[25] 2 US Billboard 200[26] 33 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[27] 4 Chart (2019) Peak position Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[28] 45

Year-end charts Chart (2016) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[29] 150 UK Albums (OCC)[30] 86 Chart (2017) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[31] 152 US Billboard 200[32] 158 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[33] 63 Certifications Region Certification Certified units/sales United Kingdom (BPI)[34] Gold 100,000 Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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28. "Top 100 Albumes – Semana 33: del 9.8.2019 al 15.8.2019" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
29. "Jaaroverzichten 2016". Ultratop. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
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33. "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2017". Billboard. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
34. "British album certifications – Prince – 4Ever". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved May 5, 2017. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type 4Ever in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.