The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Prince song)
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| "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" | ||
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| UK 7" single | ||
| Single by Prince | ||
| from the album The Gold Experience | ||
| B-side(s) | "Beautiful" "Beautiful" (Extended Club Version)" (UK 12") "Beautiful Beats" (UK 12") |
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| Released | February, 1994 | |
| Format | 7" single 12" single Cassette single CD single |
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| Recorded | Paisley Park Studios, September 1993–March 1994 | |
| Genre | Pop, Ballad | |
| Length | 4:07 | |
| Label | NPG Records/Bellmark Records | |
| Writer(s) | Noddy | |
| Producer(s) | Prince | |
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| Prince singles chronology | ||
| "Peach" (1993) |
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (1994) |
"The Beautiful Experience" (1994) |
| Prince (UK) chronology | ||
| "Controversy" (1993) |
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (1994) |
"The Beautiful Experience" (1994) |
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" is a song by Prince (then known as 
) from his 1995 album The Gold Experience. It was his first release since changing his stage name to the unpronounceable symbol. With the consent of Prince's usual record distributor Warner Bros., "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was released by NPG Records and independently distributed by Bellmark Records. The single was released in February, 1994, and shortly followed by an EP of remixes titled The Beautiful Experience. The version that was released on The Gold Experience is a different mix of the song.
The original track is a gentle ballad in falsetto that seranades a beautiful woman, and likely was directed toward his soon to be finace Mayte Garcia, whom he later married on Valentine's Day, 1994. The song was played during the Miss America Pageant in 1994, and later released on Valentine's Day. It later appeared, slightly altered and replayed on The Gold Experience. The song is based in light guitar and keyboards and uses live drums. Although most of the song is sung in falsetto with Prince reaching some extremely high notes, the bridge has him using his regular voice as well as a very low voice for contrast.
Mayte Garcia later recorded her own version called "The Most Beautiful Boy In The World" on her album Children Of The Sun. It was the same instrumental track with her vocals recorded over it, note for note as 's version, with a few slight adlib changes. A fan, Ernest L Sewell, IV, later mixed the two versions and created a "duet" of the two singers singing the song together. Many fans had long since wanted a duet and this was the closest thing to it. It became a fan-based favorite mix of the song, and is still considered one of the best fan mixes to ever be released.
The song was a worldwide hit and established Prince's ability to succeed commercially under his new name, and became a #1 hit for .
The B-side for the single was a remix of the track "Beautiful", an edit of one of the mixes on The Beautiful Experience EP. In addition, a UK issued 12" single also contained an "Extended Club Version" of "Beautiful" and a mix called "Beautiful Beats".
"The Most Beautiful Girl In the World" is his highest charting single using the moniker, peaking at number three on the Hot 100. In the UK, this song is Prince's first (and to date, only) number one song under any name as a performer. He did have two other UK number ones as a songwriter, as the composer of the 1984 hit single "I Feel for You" by Chaka Khan and of Sinéad O'Connor's 1990 cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" which had originally been recorded by Prince protégés The Family.
[edit] Track listing
- "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" - 4:06
- "Beautiful" - 3:54
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| Preceded by: "Everything Changes" by Take That |
UK Singles Chart Number 1 single April 17, 1994 for 2 weeks |
Succeeded by: "The Real Song" by Tony Di Bart |
| Preceded by: "The Sign" by Ace of Base |
ARIA (Australia) number one single May 28, 1994-June 4, 1994 |
Succeeded by: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies |
