PRINCE ROGERS NELSON died a year ago today. It's the one loss, in a year full of loss, that I remain unable to process, the one that leaves me most lost. The one I manage to forget every night and remember, with a purple tear or two, every morning. It feels like he's still here. His spirit (see the above quote of the day from his longtime engineer SUSAN ROGERS) was, and is, overwhelming. (Actually, read that whole interview with Susan Rogers; it's amazing.) While corporations big and small squabble over his estate and his music—please make it all better, TROY CARTER—there's nothing I want to do today except celebrate, and remember exactly why I want to forget. I am, obviously, not alone in this. According to BILLBOARD, Prince sold more albums in 2016 than anybody else, even ADELE. YOUTUBE, which he zealously policed in his lifetime, has become a treasure chest of purple music (and, yes, there are valid questions about whether it's appropriate to click into that treasure chest). Prince kept a lot of that music locked away in his infamous VAULT; in its first deep posthumous dive into the Vault, WARNER BROS. will release an album's worth of songs from it as part of its deluxe reissue of PURPLE RAIN. The REVOLUTION on Thursday began a spring tour in which they're reviving the '80s classics they recorded and played live with him. Prince was, in the words of PITCHFORK's STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE, a "queen-maker" who "made too much music for one person," and you could make a great case for his career based solely on his composing credits for SHEILA E., SHEENA EASTON, the BANGLES, SINEAD O'CONNOR, KENNY ROGERS (hi mom), MARTIKA and, well, it's a long article, there are a lot of names to talk about. (But not the VIOLENT FEMMES, who said no to "WONDERFUL ASS," which Prince tried to gift to them, and, lord, how to do you explain that to your grandchildren?) But, anyway, he didn't make too much music for you and me. And today we celebrate... Better than any rap battle ever: a venue war between LA's STAPLES CENTER and THE FORUM that also involves MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, the O2 ARENA and more. IRVING AZOFF, whose portfolio includes the Forum and MSG, weighs in with a delicious response... TAYLOR SWIFT on ED SHEERAN, for TIME's "100 Most Influential" list... And COMMON on CHANCE THE RAPPER... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from ANGALEENA PRESLEY, CHARLY BLISS, RAY DAVIES, GAS, MR. MITCH, BRAD PAISLEY, BARRY MANILOW, JOE GODDARD, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, BLACK ANGELS, VALGEIR SIGURDSSON, CHARLIE WORSHAM, IMELDA MAY, SHERYL CROW, J DILLA, SAMUEL ROHRER, ROBYN HITCHOCK, COIN, OVERCOATS and INCUBUS... RIP CUBA GOODING SR.