The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Purple Rain

These are the albums most often named alongside Prince - Purple Rain by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Prince, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Prince - Sign “☮︎” the Times
2. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
3. Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
6. Prince - Lovesexy
7. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
8. The Clash - London Calling
9. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1
10. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
11. Van Halen - 1984
12. Parliament - Mothership Connection
13. Duran Duran - Rio
14. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
15. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
16. Frank Ocean - Blonde
17. R.E.M. - Murmur
18. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
19. Radiohead - Kid A
20. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
21. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
22. The Police - Synchronicity
23. Def Leppard - Hysteria
24. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
25. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
26. Joni Mitchell - Blue
27. Wu‐Tang Clan - Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)
28. The Beatles - Abbey Road
29. Adam Lambert - Velvet
30. Astrud Gilberto - Look to the Rainbow

Keep walking from here to follow any of these further, or enter your own five favorites to get a list of your own.