{"id":88904,"date":"2017-02-10T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88904"},"modified":"2017-02-10T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T04:47:07","slug":"universal-records-acquire-rights-to-the-prince-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/10\/universal-records-acquire-rights-to-the-prince-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Records acquire rights to the Prince Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88905\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/838445922_0bff4f7420_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88905\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/838445922_0bff4f7420_o-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: versionsubtitulada\/Flickr.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/838445922_0bff4f7420_o-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/838445922_0bff4f7420_o.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: versionsubtitulada\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9943718@N06\/838445922\/\">Flickr.com<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Known for having a long-standing battle against the music industry and the internet, the estate of Prince announced on Thursday that it entered a deal with Universal Records to release the late pop icon\u2019s catalog full of unreleased tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deal gives rights to Universal Records to the vault of unreleased music that Prince kept up until his sudden death in April. This also includes acquiring rights and control over the 25 albums that Prince released under his own label during his dispute with Warner Brothers as \u201cThe Artist Formerly Known as Prince\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Universal, it will also obtain rights to \u201ccertain renowned Prince albums from 1979 to 1995\u201d which marked the late artist\u2019s prolific era with hits like \u201cPurple Rain\u201d and \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d topping the various charts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This deal hits a major blow with Warner as they had reconciled with Prince back in 2014 and announced that it will reissue \u201cPurple Rain\u201d along with another album full of previously unreleased material. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prince\u2019s longtime lawyer L. Londell McMillan represented the estate and said that Universal was \u201cPassionate about presenting Prince\u2019s music with a holistic vision that celebrates his iconic status.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite being vocal about his views against major music labels and the deregularization of the industry through the internet, the estate also had entered deals with various companies in order for Prince\u2019s work to be made available to major music sites such as Spotify who already made promotional efforts particularly ahead of the Grammy\u2019s on Sunday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was only in late 2015 when Prince allowed his music to be streamed through Jay-Z\u2019s streaming site, Tidal .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for having a long-standing battle against the music industry and the internet, the estate of Prince announced on Thursday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[745,10356,15024],"class_list":["post-88904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-music","tag-prince","tag-universal-records","mauthors-phoebe-balubar","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}