“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called life.” Those famous words spoken by Prince on his 1984 hit “Let’s Go Crazy” now serve as the opening line for the musical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Prince's Purple Rain soundtrack hits a new all-time high more than ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the week since the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things ended with a two-plus hour Season 5 and series finale, many of the needle drops selected for the final episode have surged in ...

Since the title song of Prince’s 1984 hit movie was featured in the finale of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” Dec. 31, “Purple Rain” is enjoying another life. The mesmerizing guitar-centric tune has seen ...

*Securing iconic music for television is famously difficult, but the appearance of Prince‘s “When Doves Cry” and “Purple Rain” in the “Stranger Things” finale represented a uniquely complex challenge.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two songs from “Purple Rain” played a prominent role in the “Stranger Things” finale, which made its debut on Netflix and in movie ...

The first song took place when the Hawkins heroes were escaping the Upside Down and set the explosives at the Upside-Down version of Hawkins Lab, where Murray (Brett Gelman) took out a copy of ...

Securing the rights to use a song in film or TV is a challenging and expensive task — and the more iconic the song, the more challenging and expensive the clearance is likely to be. So when two of ...

Prince's catalog saw a hike in streams immediately after this week's Stranger Things series finale. On New Year's Eve (December 31), the hit Netflix sci-fi/thriller series aired its final episode on ...