Album · Prince
The Gold Experience by Prince
The Gold Experience is an album by Prince, released in 1995. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”, on 3 lists with a best position of #275.
The Gold Experience, released on September 26, 1995 by NPG Records and Warner Bros., is Prince's seventeenth studio album, though the name on the cover wasn't Prince at all but the unpronounceable Love Symbol he'd taken on in 1993, in the thick of a contract dispute with Warner Bros. He produced every note of it himself.
It's a funk-rock record with swagger to spare, and the singles did the talking: "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" climbed to number 3 on the Hot 100, and "Gold" charted too. On the album charts it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and went as high as number 2 among R&B albums. Then it slipped into limbo. A legal fight over "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" meant the complete album wasn't reissued until Record Store Day 2022, when a translucent gold vinyl replica of the original 1995 promo pressing finally turned up, a day after the CD came back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Gold Experience on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Most Beautiful Girl in the World | 3 | #275 | – | 2022–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.