By the end of the decade, he had amassed the most entries on the Hot 100 of any act in the previous 10 years, including six worldwide number-one singles. Prince closed the 1980s recording the soundtrack to the massively successful 1989 film Batman, which included the worldwide number-one hit ' Batdance' as well as the top 20 hits ' Partyman', ' Scandalous!', ' The Future' and ' The Arms of Orion'. His success in Europe and Asia increased throughout the late-1980s with his 1988 album Lovesexy which crafted the top-40 hits ' Alphabet St.', ' Glam Slam', and ' I Wish U Heaven'. His 1987 double-album Sign o' the Times garnered a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and spawned the top-20 hits ' Sign o' the Times', ' If I Was Your Girlfriend', ' I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man' and ' U Got the Look'. Throughout 19, Prince scored the worldwide top-40 hits ' Raspberry Beret', ' Pop Life', ' Paisley Park', ' America', ' Girls & Boys', ' Mountains', and ' Anotherloverholenyohead', as well as the number-one hit ' Kiss', from the musically diverse albums Around the World in a Day and Parade. Purple Rain (1984) gave Prince two American number one singles (' When Doves Cry' and ' Let's Go Crazy') while the three other singles, ' Purple Rain', ' I Would Die 4 U', and ' Take Me with U' became worldwide top-10 hits and established him as one of the most popular performers of the decade. In 1982, Prince released the album 1999, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 hits ' 1999', ' Little Red Corvette', and ' Delirious' throughout 1983, during which time he earned distinction as one of the first black artists to be played on MTV alongside Michael Jackson. His next two albums, Dirty Mind (1980) and Controversy (1981), furthered his success on the dance/R&B charts, spawning the top-five hits ' Dirty Mind', ' Uptown', 'Head', ' Controversy', and ' Let's Work'.

The album Prince spawned a top-20 R&B hit single (' Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?') and a top-five dance hit (' Sexy Dancer'). The following year, he released ' I Wanna Be Your Lover', which became a top-40 hit in several countries and peaked at number 11 in the United States it topped the Billboard R&B chart in early 1980.

Prince's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 was ' Soft and Wet' (1978), which peaked at number 92. Records in 1977 at age 18, he released his debut album For You the following year. After signing a contract with Warner Bros.

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