CalhounSq said:

I know I looked 4 it at Borders, not avaliable yet. Even if I have played the jam out I still want it in real 4mat in all it's gory!

paisleypark4 said:

ME 2, 3 & 4!!!!!

Me 5, 6, & 8!!!!!

i'm watching the video on vh1 RIGHT NOW!

paisleypark4 said:

Shutup?


Did I say it was a bad cd? Haven't I expressed b4 I like this cd? Didn't I say before it came out it was going 2 sell more than her past 3 cd's combined?

Her fans stuck beside her and made sure everyone knew how good of cd it was and that it got played and moved units.

Anyway...guess I will "shutup" and get back on topic to help the Black Sweat/3121 project.

jseven said:

That right there is what I admire about the Maraih die-hards. They were unified to get "The Emancipation..." to number 1 and they have suceeded. The Prince community is not all that unified and I don't know if we have the same kind of commitment to promote a Prince album the way the Mariah fans have. Look at some of the threads here already. I hope 3121 will be different. We'll see.

My wife just caught Black Sweat on UK's MTV Base Spanking New! I guess the promotion machine in Europe has just kicked off!!!

CalhounSq said:

It's available online to download. Not as a physical CD yet.

purplecam said:

The trouble is, many Prince fans really don't even care if it's a hit or not. There is no doubt that there are enough prince fans around that if they did care, and did rally behind it, they could do the same thing for Prince. If everyone just spend 5 minutes/day requesting Black Sweat on radio stations, they could significantly accelerate airplay.

Universaluv said:

is it available anywhere other than NPGMC? And why isn't it on iTunes yet - it was going up a full 2 weeks ago. First it said "not available in the US" then it disappeared.

i just want to know when the actual cd single will be availible in the u.s. stores.

alandail said:

That is the truth. 5 minutes is nothing in a 24 hour day. We need to get behind this album and do all that we can do to support this song and 3121 more than ever before.

alandail said:

There's other sites, buymusic, aol, etc..no itunes yet. I could speculate that the NPGMC wanted a period to offer it to its members before it hit a major venue like itunes. But that's just speculation.

Great review here...

http://blogcritics.org/ar...005713.php

"Beautiful Loved & Blessed" Larger Radio Audience than "Black Sweat "

02.15.06 Mediabase Airplay Charts

Black Sweat:
Top 40 Mainstream- #143 , 45 spins, Audience: .039mil
Top 40 Rhythmic- #115, 126 spins, audience: .490mil
Urban Mainstream- #97, 127 spins, auidence: .481mil

Total Black Sweat : 298 spins, audience 1.01million

Beautiful, Loved & Blessed:
Urban AC - #30 , 201 spins, audience: 1.707 mil
Urban Mainstream : #393, 14 spins , auduence : .039 mil

Total Beautiful Loved & Blessed : 215 spins, audience 1.746 million


Thanks to WBLS in New York City for playing BL&B that song's audience is higher than Black Sweat's. Looking into the numbers a lot of BS hits are coming in small makets in overnight hours. http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...e=PRINBS++

2020 said:

And this was B4 the reviewer heard Fury!

this may be of interest.

a discussion of 'black sweat' on the Lamaq Roundtable

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6mus...0210.shtml

wavesofbliss said:[quote]this may be of interest.

a discussion of 'black sweat' on the Lamaq Roundtable



interesting, one guy gives it a 10 out of 10 saying its amazing, a woman is disappointed saying she preferes his 'early' stuff like girls and boys, and another guy complains it sounds like something he was working on before he wrote kiss. and lamaq points out the conflict between doing something new and playing to your strengths.

its annoying cos they point out a couple of other peoples opinions and they're all saying 'sounds like every other prince song'. now i'm not saying it is or it isn't, but when prince did something different at almost any other stage of his career he's dropped fans like a stone. dirty mind, around the world, lovesexy, come, the rainbow children. its not like any of these people are saying 'hey it sounds like 'hit' prince, i prefer x'.

i'd just guess that they don't really know anything not on a very best of album and therefore all prince songs are about sex and purple. its quite frustrating but the fact that the guy on there who loved it went 'Jesus Christ!' when Dave Gorman gave it a 4 was hilarious.

Video Spins 4 02/15/06*

Black Sweat VH1 spins: 2

(Increase of 1 spin per day)



Black Sweat MTV Spins: 3


MTV added it to it's "Spankin' New" segment.

Total since video debuted on 2/13/06:

Black Sweat VH1 Spins: 4

Black Sweat MTV Spins: 10**


(*This is only counting MTV & VH1, the main channels, not MTV Hits or VH1 Soul, just the ones with the most subscribers/viewers, i.e. more impact.)

(**Cinnamon Girl only received 10 spins in total on MTV in 1 month of play. Black Sweat tied it within 3 days.)

02.16.06 Mediabase Airplay Charts

Black Sweat:
Top 40 Mainstream- #135 , 50 spins, Audience: .042mil
Top 40 Rhythmic- #116, 126 spins, audience: .508mil
Urban Mainstream- #91, 143 spins, auidence: .509mil (*#1 "Taking off"*)
Total Black Sweat : 319 spins, audience 1.059million

Beautiful, Loved & Blessed:
Urban AC - #27 , 210 spins, audience: 1.658 mil (*#1 "Taking off", #5 "Jump"*)
Urban Mainstream : #454, 12 spins , auduence : .028 mil

Total Beautiful Loved & Blessed : 222 spins, audience 1.686 million

yeah his name is joseph arthur and he's wonderfl and a devoted prince fan.

Video Spins 4 02/16/06*

Black Sweat VH1 spins: 2

(Guess VH-1 can see the future; they listed Black Sweat as a Grammy Winner.)



Black Sweat MTV Spins: 4


MTV add 2 "Spankin' New" segment.

Total since video debuted on 2/13/06:

Black Sweat VH1 Spins: 6

Black Sweat MTV Spins: 14**


(*This is only counting MTV & VH1, the main channels, not MTV Hits or VH1 Soul, just the ones with the most subscribers/viewers, i.e. more impact.)

(**Cinnamon Girl only received 10 spins in total on MTV in 1 month of play. Black Sweat surpassed it within 4 days.)

MTV is playing this video a lot and that fantastic but why is VH1 not playing it as much? They played Te Amo Corazon like 3 times a day. At least they are playing it and that's part of the battle right there.

purplecam said:

Because they need room for all the "Fabulous Life of.." or "The 100 Greatest...Moments" episodes to be played back-to-back-to-back all day every day.

REVIEW FROM STANFORD
Black Sweat”

Maybe it shouldn’t shock me that a man who once changed his name to a symbol would change something as simple as his views on sex in the media. But I can’t help but be a little astounded that Prince, a card-carrying Jehovah’s Witness who just two years ago complained to Newsweek that “Now there’s all these dirty videos...we’re bombarded,” would so quickly and so gleefully add to that bombardment.

His video for “Black Sweat” consists mostly of a curvaceous model type, alternately clad in latex, lamè, and lingerie, dancing provocatively while Prince attempts to prove that an effeminate, short, 47-year-old singing falsetto can be sexy. Whether or not it’s successful is a matter of personal preference, but it is entertaining to watch him try.

Maybe it’s the illusion of class that black-and-white filming adds, but as T-and-A-centric videos go, this is less crass and more slyly amusing than most. Prince’s reaction to the woman shaking and posing for his benefit can most accurately be described as arch. At one point, he even sips a cup of tea, barely glancing at her gyrations. At another, he reads a magazine and smirks. Maybe he’s resisting temptation. More likely, he’s just playing it cool. With a few embarrassing exceptions (please, Prince, start wearing shirts under your suit coats), he plays the tease well. The video certainly doesn’t break any new ground, but it isn’t trying to. The angular funk of the song, a throwback to some of Prince’s earlier work, calls for a video that is simply sexy and fun, and “Black Sweat” by and large delivers. I’m sure Jehovah, if not all of his witnesses, would approve.

—Lisa J. Bloomberg

2020 said:

She wears lingerie in the video??...Or did the writer just run out of clothing that begins with the letter "L"??...

they just played it on radio 1

RumAndRaisin said:

yeah, cool. I just heard it too - on the Pete Tong dance show which is V credible. first time i've heard new P material on Radio1 in years - probably since TMBGITW.

I think this is a positive sign for 3121 over here...

BS has reached Denmark as well - I´ve heard it a couple of times on the biggest radiostation - and they are giving it good credit every time...And I agree