One Nite Alone...

This article is about the studio album. For the live album, see One Nite Alone... Live! For the tour, see One Nite Alone... Tour.

One Nite Alone...
Studio album by Prince
Released	May 14, 2002
Recorded	2001
Studio	Paisley Park, Chanhassen, Minnesota
Genre	Smooth jazz acoustic quiet storm
Length	35:01
Label	NPG
Producer	Prince
Prince chronology
The Rainbow Children (2001) One Nite Alone... (2002) One Nite Alone... Live! (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Guardian	[1]

One Nite Alone... is the twenty-fifth studio album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on May 14, 2002 by NPG Records.

Background

It features him singing and accompanying himself on piano, making only occasional use of other instruments. It includes a cover of the Joni Mitchell classic "A Case of You", retitled "A Case of U". Mitchell receives special thanks in the liner notes. It is also the first Prince album not to chart. One song that caused some controversy amongst fans^{[ citation needed ]} is "Avalanche", which describes Abraham Lincoln as a racist.

One Nite Alone... was given to members of the NPG Music Club, separately and included as a gift with his One Nite Alone...Live box set. It was never sold in stores, but bootlegs are available. For many years the primary way to hear the album was through MP3 file-sharing, and original CD copies are quite rare; in 2015, the album was released through Tidal.^{[ citation needed ]} On May 29, 2020, the album was released on Vinyl.

Track listing

All songs written by Prince, except "A Case of U" by Joni Mitchell.

One Nite Alone... track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"One Nite Alone..."	3:37
2.	"U're Gonna C Me"	5:16
3.	"Here on Earth"	3:23
4.	"A Case of U"	3:39
5.	"Have a Heart"	2:04
6.	"Objects in the Mirror"	3:27
7.	"Avalanche"	4:24
8.	"Pearls B4 the Swine"	3:01
9.	"Young and Beautiful"	2:44
10.	"Arboretum" (instrumental)	3:26

Notes

• "One Nite Alone", "U're Gonna C Me", "Here on Earth", "A Case of U", and "Pearls B4 the Swine" were initially released through the NPG Music Club in 2001.
• "U're Gonna C Me" was re-recorded with new instrumentation for MPLSound .
• "A Case of U" is dedicated to the memory of John L. Nelson, Prince's father.

Personnel

• Prince – all vocals and instruments except where noted
• John Blackwell – drums on tracks 3 and 4
• Ambient singing – Prince's doves, Divinity and Majesty ^[2]

Charts

Chart performance for One Nite Alone... (Solo Piano and Voice by Prince)

Chart (2020)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [3]	192
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [4]	105
French Albums (SNEP) [5]	191

References

1. "Prince: every album rated – and ranked". The Guardian . April 22, 2016. Archived from the original on December 2, 2022.
2. "Prince One Night Alone Piano And Voice Album". www.Guide2Prince.org. Archived from the original on May 3, 2010.
3. "Ultratop.be – Prince – One Nite Alone... Solo Piano And Voice By Prince" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
4. "Ultratop.be – Prince – One Nite Alone... Solo Piano And Voice By Prince" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
5. "Lescharts.com – Prince – One Nite Alone... Solo Piano And Voice By Prince". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 27, 2020.