NPG Records: version 1

Saved 2026-09-13 14:42 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Musicology – Prince (CD)**, GTIN 00827969256022, a wanted-list barcode (old title "musicology"). - **Identity:** Prince's 2004 album, single-disc enhanced CD in a digipak, NPG Records / Colum. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# NPG Records <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: NPG Records
legal_name: NPG Records, Inc.
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                         | type   | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| NPG Records, Inc.            | legal  |        |      |       |
| NPG                          | name   |        |      |       |
| New Power Generation Records | search | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref             | url                                       | title                                                                        | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator                                           | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-us      | https://api.discogs.com/releases/2516489  | Discogs release 2516489: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, US, 2004) | 2026-09-13 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 2516489   | Identifiers, companies, credits, notes, tracklist |              |             |          |
| discogs-npg     | https://api.discogs.com/labels/23773      | Discogs label 23773: NPG Records                                             | 2026-09-13 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 23773     | Profile, parent label                             |              |             |          |
| discogs-npg-inc | https://api.discogs.com/labels/365483     | Discogs label 365483: NPG Records, Inc.                                      | 2026-09-13 | Discogs   | catalogue   |           | 365483    |                                                   |              |             |          |
| wiki-npg        | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPG_Records | Wikipedia: NPG Records                                                       | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |                                                   | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
NPG Records is the record label Prince owned; its name is short for New Power Generation. He set it up to release his music after Warner Bros. Records shut down Paisley Park Records, and it released mainly his own albums and side projects.[^wiki-npg] Discogs dates its founding to 1993, during his dispute with Warner Bros. It notes that the label reached shops through pressing and distribution deals with record companies or digitally, and names NPG Records, Inc. as its parent entry.[^discogs-npg][^discogs-npg-inc] It holds the © and ℗ for the 2004 US CD of Musicology, which Columbia Records manufactured and distributed.[^discogs-us]
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