What was Prince's 1996 album released to fulfill his Warner Bros. contract?

Prince’s 1996 album released to fulfill his Warner Bros. contract was *Chaos and Disorder*.

Released on July 9, 1996, the album was Prince’s 18th studio release. It arrived during his bitter dispute with Warner Bros. over artistic control and ownership of his master recordings. Rather than promoting it as a major new project, Prince treated it largely as a contractual delivery.

The album combined material recorded across several sessions, including work connected with *Come* and *The Gold Experience*. Its packaging made the circumstances unusually clear, describing the record as a compilation of material originally intended for private use and the final original material recorded for Warner Bros.

A common mix-up is *Come*, released in 1994, or *The Gold Experience*, released in 1995; both were also Warner-era albums, but neither was the final project assembled specifically to satisfy the contract. *Chaos and Disorder* reached No. 26 in the United States and No. 14 in the United Kingdom.