Talk:Crystal Ball (box set)

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Requested move
Crystal Ball (Prince album) → Crystal Ball (album set) — incorporate The Truth (the fourth disc set) and Kamasutra (limited edition 5th disc.) — MaJic (talk) 22:32, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

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Compilation/studio
An editor is taking up the issue of whether this is a studio album or not. It's not. Studio albums are planned ahead, with newly recorded material. This set is made up of songs (demos, outakes, tracks written/recorded atleast two/three years beforehand) that were discarded. See studio album and compilation album. Now, since the editor is proposing his change, he ought to justify it beforehand here. Dan56 (talk) 06:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Look: http://princevault.com/index.php/Album:_Crystal_Ball BrokenWall3 (talk) 06:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Wow, a conspicuously unreliable source! Dan56 (talk) 06:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

It doesn't make it unreliable just because you say it is. Besides, there's more information on there then here. BrokenWall3 (talk) 06:37, 12 February 2012 (UTC)


 * You're right. It's unreliable, because its made up of user-generated content. (WP:RS) Dan56 (talk) 06:44, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Looks as if this release is a box set. It's made purely up of previously unreleased material as a "thank you" to fans, is it not? — Status  &#x7B;talk contribs  22:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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Sources on the pre-order aspect

 * https://books.google.com/books?id=BOvSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=11dZsE7iGdcC&pg=PA291

(not watching, please )  czar  04:18, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Why is there whitespace before the main article.
The whitespace is really annoying and should definitely be removed. Sherlemious (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

(De)merge proposal
I request a merger of The Truth (Prince album) into this page. Although they are two different albums, research from various Prince discographies, Prince fan collections and other sites have shown that the Crystal Ball package is in fact FOUR discs, with The Truth being disc 4. I was also going to suggest merging Kamasutra (since it was included as a 5th disc in limited quantities, but i dont wanna push it). MaJic (talk) 04:22, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I think The Truth deserves it’s own entry. Today in the digital age, one can find the album The Truth on all digital stores as a standalone album DJ Funkfunk (talk) 17:03, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

The Truth came out yesterday (12/06/2021) as a separate release. I think it is a good idea to split Crystal Ball and The Truth. warpozio (talk) 08:40, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

I agree, especially since the album found it's way to several charts due to the rerelease on Record Store Day (12/06/2021) DJ Funkfunk (talk) 09:24, 21 June 2021 (UTC)