Controversy is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter and musician Prince, released on October 14, 1981, by Warner Bros. Records. Prince wrote and produced the entire album, except for one track, and also performed most of the instruments on the recording. Controversy reached number three on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was voted the eighth best album of the year in the 1981 Pazz & Jop, an annual critics poll run by The Village Voice. This was the first of his albums to strongly associate Prince with the color purple as well as the first to use sensational spelling in his song titles. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controv...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)