Music release
Musicology – Prince (CD)
Single-disc enhanced CD of Prince's 2004 album Musicology, NPG Records / Columbia CK 92560, in a digipak, sold in the US and Canada.
Versions & editions
US CD edition, NPG Records / Columbia CK 92560[4]
United States · English · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2026-09-13
- Known applicable from
- 2004-04-20
- Pack
- digipak
- Units in pack
- 1
Release date agrees with ^musicbrainz; Discogs lists several pressing variants under this barcode, told apart by matrix and SID codes
Specifications
- Format
- CD, album, enhanced (CD Audio plus Text logo on the disc)[4]
Conditions & original evidence
Recorded: CD, album, enhanced (CD Audio plus Text logo on the disc)
known · printed
- Packaging
- Digipak with 28-page booklet of lyrics and credits[4]
Conditions & original evidence
Recorded: Digipak with 28-page booklet of lyrics and credits
known · printed
MusicBrainz also gives Digipak (^musicbrainz); a hype sticker on the shrink wrap reads K 92560-51
- Matrix / runout
- CPDP-112919 1[4]
Conditions & original evidence
Recorded: CPDP-112919 1
known · printed
US pressing, glass mastered at DADC; mastering SID IFPI L329; mould SID IFPI 5084, 5005 or 50A6; further variants CPDP-112919 J2/J4 with IFPI L422/L424
Credits
- Prince · Producer, arranger, composer, performer[4] · Credited "Per4med by"
- NPG Records · Label; © and ℗ holder[4] · Label catalogue number K 92560-51
- Columbia · Label[4] · Catalogue number CK 92560
- Columbia Records · Manufactured by, distributed by[4]
- Prince · Engineer[4]
- L. Stu Young · Engineer[4] · Metalworks Studios, Mississauga (^wiki-album)
- Joseph Lepinski · Assistant engineer[4]
- Paisley Park Studios · Recorded at[4]
- Metalworks Studios · Recorded at[4]
- The Hit Factory · Recorded at, mastered at[4]
- Bernie Grundman Mastering · Mastered at[4]
- DADC · Glass mastered at[4] · Matrix CPDP-112919
- Jeremy Gavin · Design[4]
- Sam Jennings · Design[4]
- Afshin Shahidi · Photography[4]
- Armour Photography · Photography[4]
- Candy Dulfer · Vocals, saxophone, horns[3] · Lead vocal on track 4
- Maceo Parker · Saxophone[3] · Tracks 8–10
- Sheila E. · Shaker[3] · Track 11
- Clare Fischer · String arrangement[3] · Track 5
Other observations & source differences (3)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- US CD edition, NPG Records / Columbia CK 92560 supported · selected
Release date agrees with ^musicbrainz; Discogs lists several pressing variants under this barcode, told apart by matrix and SID codes
- US CD in longbox, NPG Records CK 92560 supported · Compare evidence
Same catalogue number and printed barcode; the longbox is outer retail packaging
- Canadian CD pressing, NPG Records / Columbia CK 92560 supported · Compare evidence
Made in Canada; bilingual English/French hype and distribution stickers on the shrink wrap
Tracks
| 1 | Musicology Written by Prince Discogs gives 4:24 (^discogs-us), which notes that no durations are printed on the release · Prince[5] | 4:27 |
| 2 | Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance Written by Prince Discogs gives 4:46 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 4:48 |
| 3 | A Million Days Written by Prince Discogs gives 3:50 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 3:52 |
| 4 | Life ‘O’ the Party Written by Prince Discogs gives 4:29 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 4:32 |
| 5 | Call My Name Written by Prince Discogs gives 5:15 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 5:18 |
| 6 | Cinnamon Girl Written by Prince Discogs gives 3:56 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 3:59 |
| 7 | What Do U Want Me 2 Do? Written by Prince Discogs gives 4:15; Italian speech by Ornella Bonaccorsi is on this track although the booklet credits track 8 (^discogs-us, ^wiki-album) · Prince[5] | 4:18 |
| 8 | The Marrying Kind Written by Prince Discogs gives 2:49 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 2:52 |
| 9 | If Eye Was the Man in Ur Life Written by Prince Discogs gives 3:09 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 3:12 |
| 10 | On the Couch Written by Prince Discogs gives 3:33 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 3:36 |
| 11 | Dear Mr. Man Written by Prince Discogs gives 4:14 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 4:16 |
| 12 | Reflection Written by Prince Discogs gives 3:06 (^discogs-us) · Prince[5] | 3:03 |
| Video | Musicology (video) Written by Prince Enhanced CD content: a Flash file on the disc that plays the "Musicology" video clip on PC and Mac; not on the Canadian Discogs tracklist · Prince[4] | 4:58 |
Release facts
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- 827969256022 check digit OK
- Brand
- Columbia Records
- Family
- Musicology
- Category
- Audio Visual/Photography, Audio Visual Media, Pre-Recorded or Digital Content Media, CD/MD - Pre-recorded
- Pack
- digipak
- Sold in
- 🇺🇸 United States[1], 🇨🇦 Canada[2]
- GS1 prefix
- 082 · United States and Canada
- Artists
- Prince
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Record company
- Sony Music Entertainment
- Catalogue number
- CK 92560
- Format
- cd
- Released
- 2004-04-20 · US, CA
- Genre
- Funk / Soul
- Running time
- 48.2 min
- Languages
- en, it
- Edition
- Enhanced CD
- Copyright
- © 2004 NPG Records
- Phonographic copyright
- ℗ 2004 NPG Records
About this product
Musicology is the twenty-eighth studio album by Prince, released on CD by NPG Records and distributed by Columbia Records on 20 April 2004 in the US.[3] This barcode is the single-disc enhanced CD, catalogue number CK 92560, in a digipak with a 28-page lyric booklet and a playable video of the title track.[4] Its 12 tracks run about 48 minutes, all written and produced by Prince.[5][3] The same barcode is printed on the Canadian pressing, made in Canada and distributed by Sony Music Entertainment (Canada).[2] Columbia Records is a division of Sony Music Entertainment.[6]
More about this product
The album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and won Prince two Grammy Awards. A copy was bundled with every ticket to the 2004 Musicology Tour, which led Billboard to change its chart rules.[3] The 2006-2013 Barcodepedia had a page for this barcode, taken from Amazon.com data, which listed it as an Audio CD.[7]
Where it's sold
🇺🇸 United States
eBay listing[1] sourced
- Listing observed
US eBay listing titled "Musicology by Prince (CD) 827969256022", read through a web search (the page answers the server with HTTP 403); a 2004 release, so second-hand trade; no price or condition read; US release per ^discogs-us
🇨🇦 Canada
Discogs release 9476317[2] sourced
- Listing observed
- Made in
- Canada
Discogs entry for the Canadian pressing transcribes the scanned barcode 827969256022, "Made in Canada" on the disc and a Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) Inc. distribution sticker; an eBay.ca listing titled "Prince : Musicology CD 827969256022" (^ebay-ca) also shows it trading in Canada
A listing is evidence that this barcode is sold there, on that date; a price is what that listing showed, not a recommended price.
Other names for this product
Also known as
- Musicology en
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Sources & research
Evidence reviewed
eBay
eBay listing: Musicology by Prince (CD) 827969256022
retailer · Accessed 2026-09-13
Source & attribution [1] ↗Discogs
Discogs release 9476317: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, Canada, 2004)
catalogue · Accessed 2026-09-13
Source & attribution [2] ↗Coverage & research gaps (8)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Release details: 5 / 5 · Profile fields recorded: artists, label, media, released, catalogue_number. Missing fields may require research or an applicability note.
- tracks evidence: 13 / 13 · Recorded rows linked to source evidence; does not measure whether the list is complete
- Context: 3 / 3 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 3 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 5 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- images · unknown: No licensed cover photograph found; not on Open Food Facts; the Cover Art Archive holds 22 scans for the MusicBrainz release but their licence was not checked
- media · disputed: Running time: MusicBrainz track lengths sum to 48:13 (runtime_min 48.2, calculated), the Discogs track lengths to 47:46, and Wikipedia gives 47:26
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 registrant of prefix 0827969; the gs1_prefix_owner edge is derived from the manufacturer and distributor printed on the release
- relationships · unknown: The contract between NPG Records and Columbia is not documented for this album; licensed_from is derived from the © and ℗ lines
- markets · unknown: Retailer and marketplace pages printing the barcode (eBay US and Canada) refuse the server; no dated price or condition read; whether the article is still in print was not established
- identity · not_applicable: Not this article: the cardboard-sleeve CD handed out with Musicology Tour tickets carries barcode 074645846927, the European CD carries 5099751716525 (COL 517165 2) and the 2019 reissues carry new Sony numbers
- images · not_researched: No product photographs recorded.
- schema · schema_gap: Some specifications retain source labels without comparable property keys.
All references & source details
References
- ↑ eBay listing: Musicology by Prince (CD) 827969256022 eBay. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 404822654738. Listing title.
- ↑ Discogs release 9476317: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, Canada, 2004) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 9476317. Identifiers, companies, notes.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Musicology (album) Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-13. Lead, infobox, commercial performance, personnel. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ Discogs release 2516489: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, US, 2004) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 2516489. Identifiers, companies, credits, notes, tracklist.
- ↑ MusicBrainz release: Prince – Musicology (CD, US, 2004) MusicBrainz. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: d5ba6c2c-b6ac-443c-a0c9-e7ba22518956. Barcode, labels, packaging, recordings. CC0.
- ↑ Discogs company 93330: Columbia Records Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 93330. Profile, parent label.
- ↑ Barcodepedia (archived 1 March 2007): Musicology Internet Archive. other. Published 2007-03-01. Accessed 2026-09-13.
Further sources
Additional sources recorded for this entry, including other observations and related pages.
- Discogs release 7093376: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, Longbox, US, 2004) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 7093376. Identifiers, notes.
- Discogs release 326522: Prince – Musicology (CD, Album, Enhanced, Europe, 2004) Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 326522. Identifiers.
- Discogs master 109262: Musicology, all versions Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 109262.
- Discogs label 23773: NPG Records Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 23773. Profile, parent label.
- Discogs label 365483: NPG Records, Inc. Discogs. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 365483.
- Wikipedia: NPG Records Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-13. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- eBay.ca listing: Prince : Musicology CD 827969256022 eBay. retailer. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 195318499523. Listing title.
Barcode & identifiers
- GTIN-14
00827969256022- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0827969256022- UPC-A / GTIN-12
827969256022
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