Album
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Why this album mattered
Controversy (1981) is a Prince album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 8 tracks on this release. It reached #21 and charted for 66 weeks.
The music
1 
Controversy
2 Sexuality
- 3
Do Me, Baby
- 4
Private Joy
- 5
Ronnie, Talk to Russia
- 6
Let’s Work
- 7
Annie Christian
- 8
Jack U Off
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Nov 7, 1981#71
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
