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“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” by Prince
From the album The Gold Experience (1995)
“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” by Prince appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2025. It was first released in 1995 on the album The Gold Experience. Its best result is #275 on the WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #485 of the '90s.
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" arrived in 1994 as a one-off single, with Prince, by then going by an unpronounceable symbol, stepping outside his usual distributor for the occasion: with Warner Bros.' consent, NPG Records put it out in North America, Edel handled the rest of the world and Bellmark distributed it independently in the US. It topped five different charts and gave him his only number one on the UK Singles Chart. He wrote, arranged, produced and sang it, with Ricky Peterson co-producing and adding keyboards, Michael Bland on drums and Jim Behringer on extra guitar.
A different mix later landed on his seventeenth studio album, The Gold Experience, in 1995. The video, which he directed with Antoine Fuqua, cuts between women watching themselves live out their fantasies and Prince performing for them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 485 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 730 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2025 | 275 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
Also listed as: The Most Beautiful Girl In The World.
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