Prince’s Timeless debuts at #5 on Billboard’s top r&b albums chart
Prince’s newly released Timeless debuted across seven U.S. charts and generated 1.3M+ digital streams in its first week following its August 28 release via NPG Records.
The 10-track collection debuted at:
- #5 Top R&B Albums
- #8 Vinyl Albums
- #9 Top Album Sales
- #9 Top Digital Albums
- #12 Indie Store Album Sales
- #14 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
- #59 Billboard 200
Internationally, Timeless reached #1 in Switzerland and the Top 10 on national album sales charts in Belgium, Norway, Italy, Austria, Canada, the Netherlands, France and Japan.
The Timeless: Global Album Release Party, livestreamed through Prince and Paisley Park’s official YouTube and Facebook channels, has now surpassed 173,000 views.
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Released alongside the album, the video for “The Guilty Ones” spotlights a previously unreleased Prince recording from October 26, 2007, featuring Cora Coleman-Dunham, Josh Dunham, Marva King and Shelby J.
Spanning recordings from 1977 through 2016, Timeless has earned coverage from NPR, CNN, People, Billboard,Stereogum, Consequence, Complex,The Source and more, with critics praising the collection’s range and portrait of Prince’s singular artistry:
“It shows a bunch of the different facets of what [Prince] is capable of and why he could do things that nobody else could do.”