Crystal Ball (box set)
Crystal Ball is a box set by American recording artist Prince. It includes Crystal Ball, the artist's twentieth studio album, which is a three-disc set of "previously bootlegged" material, together with a fourth disc, The Truth, the twenty-first studio album by Prince.
| Crystal Ball | ||||
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| Box set by Prince | ||||
| Released | January 29, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1983–1996 | |||
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| Length | 149:10 | |||
| Label | NPG | |||
| Producer | Prince | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The A.V. Club | favorable |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Yahoo! Music | favorable |
The box set was initially only available through direct orders by phone and internet. The direct order edition included a fifth disc, an instrumental studio album by The NPG Orchestra titled Kamasutra. Shipment of this limited edition 5-CD version started on January 29, 1998, approximately two months before the release of the 4-CD version to retail stores on March 21, 1998.
The album Crystal Ball is Prince's second triple album in succession, following Emancipation. Each of the three CDs contain ten tracks and last fifty minutes, resembling Emancipation's 12-song, sixty-minute disc lengths.
In 2018, NPG Records released Crystal Ball and The Truth digitally on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and Apple Music.
In 2021, a special limited vinyl edition of The Truth was released on Record Store Day.