Prince's 1982 song describing a party that lasts until the year 2000 is “1999.”
The song appears on Prince's fifth studio album, also titled 1999, released in October 1982. Its lyrics combine dance-floor celebration with anxiety about a possible catastrophe, creating a tension between enjoying the present and fearing the future. The repeated invitation to party until 2000 made the recording especially relevant as the millennium approached.
Prince recorded most of the album himself, but “1999” features prominent vocals from Lisa Coleman and Dez Dickerson alongside Prince. The song was released as a single and became one of his signature recordings. It later returned to the charts during the late 1990s, when audiences revisited its millennium imagery.
The title is sometimes mistaken for the album's release year, but the album and song were released in 1982. “1999” is also not a literal New Year's Eve standard: it uses the approaching year 2000 as a symbol for uncertainty, excess, and collective celebration.