On the evening of Feb. 28, 1984, Prince was at home, watching Michael Jackson become the first artist to win eight Grammys in a single night ... album and a movie, Purple Rain was still unfinished ...

Purple Rain was a hit, with the film and its soundtrack ... became his first No. 1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles list. That was followed by his second No. 1 single, the rock and soul ...

Granted, musical careers, like nearly everything else, moved more gradually back then. But that’s also how Prince revealed himself. Launched as an R&B loverman with 1978’s “For You,” he ...

“Purple Rain” was launched brilliantly: “When Doves Cry,” its unique and unforgettable lead single, debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 2 at No. 57, then rose unusually rapidly (for ...

(Purple Rain was his first No. 1 album on the Billboard ... “When Doves Cry” and “Let’s Go Crazy,” and saw him earn biggest-selling single of 1984 with the former.) ...

The Purple Rain soundtrack album topped the Billboard ... By December, Billboard reported that “Doves” was 1984’s top-selling single and noted that the year had been “dominated by the ...

In May, more than two months after it was recorded, “When Doves Cry” was released as the first single from Purple Rain. By the time it hit Number One, the album was released, and it quickly ...

(For some reason, the song “Purple Rain” itself is not among them.) Still, some are better than none. So far, here is what we’ve got: The first single off of Purple Rain, “When Doves Cry ...

“‘Purple Rain’ could be be a sleeper hit along the ... Doves Cry” was topping the charts as a “stunningly sober single,” a drastic change from his earlier party hits “Let’s Go ...

At one point, Prince had the No. 1 single, No. 1 album and No. 1 movie in the country. To mark the anniversary of “Purple Rain,” here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Prince’s ...

The only single released from the album that didn't go top 10, "Take Me With U," a duet with the pitch-shy Apollonia, is sort of the loveable stepchild of Purple Rain's tracklist. Whereas most of ...

the final 'Purple Rain' single, the No. 25 pop hit 'Take Me With U,' was released in January 1985, followed in May by 'Raspberry Beret,' the first single from 'Around the World in a Day.' ...