'International Lover' earned Prince his first Grammy Award nomination at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards.
The song 'Delirious' also placed in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Prince and Jackson had a competitive rivalry, not just on musical success, but also athletically too.
Prince's 'Little Red Corvette' was one of the first two videos by black artists (along with Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean') played in heavy rotation on MTV, which had been perceived as against 'black music' until CBS President Walter Yetnikoff threatened to pull all CBS videos. The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation and became Prince's first top 10 hit in countries outside the US. In late 1982, Prince released a double album, 1999, which sold over three million copies. The band released four albums between 19, with Prince writing and performing most of the instrumentation and backing vocals (sometimes credited under the pseudonyms 'Jamie Starr' or 'The Starr Company'), with lead vocals by Morris Day. In 1981, Prince formed a side project band called the Time. He released three more solo albums before debuting The New Power Generation band in 1991. After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day (1985) and Parade (1986), The Revolution disbanded, and Prince released the double album Sign o' the Times (1987) as a solo artist. The film also won an Oscar for Best Original Song Score, the last to receive the award. The film itself grossed more than $68 million at the box office in the United States and over $80 million worldwide, thus making a large profit on its $7.2 million budget. It quickly became his most critically and commercially successful release, spending 24 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 and selling 25 million copies worldwide. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released Purple Rain, the soundtrack album to his successful film debut of the same name. His 1979 album Prince went platinum, and his next three albums- Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982)-continued his success, prominently showcasing his explicit lyrics as well as blending of funk, dance, and rock music. Records at the age of 17 and released his debut album For You in 1978. He signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince developed an interest in music as a young child and wrote his first song, 'Funk Machine', at the age of seven.
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