On 19 October 1979 Warner Bros. released Prince, the self-titled second album written, produced, and almost entirely performed by the twenty-one-year-old at Alpha Studios in Burbank.
On 25 June 1984 Warner Bros. released Purple Rain, the soundtrack to Prince's film of the same name and the breakthrough album credited to Prince and the Revolution.
On 20 November 2001 NPG Records and Redline Entertainment released The Rainbow Children, Prince's first major retail album under his own name again after the Love Symbol years.
On 26 September 1995 NPG and Warner Bros. released The Gold Experience, the first full studio album credited to the Love Symbol after years of public conflict with the label.
In early 1998 NPG Records shipped The Truth as the acoustic fourth disc inside the Crystal Ball direct-order set, a stripped Prince album that was not sold alone at retail.