--- title: Prince to Be Simulcast on Radio Stations Across Country description: Exactly 7 hours and 13 days after Prince's death, radio stations across the country will team up to pay homage to the musical icon canonical: https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-04T13:41:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:06.318Z og:title: Prince Will Be Simulcast on Radio Stations '7 Hours and 13 Days' After His Death og:description: Exactly 7 hours and 13 days after Prince's death, radio stations across the country will team up to pay homage to the musical icon og:url: https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte05172bb4d5ba0db/698891cee20a8729dea90b25/prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2013 Billboard Music Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Will Be Simulcast on Radio Stations '7 Hours and 13 Days' After His Death twitter:description: Exactly 7 hours and 13 days after Prince's death, radio stations across the country will team up to pay homage to the musical icon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte05172bb4d5ba0db/698891cee20a8729dea90b25/prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince to Be Simulcast on Radio Stations '7 Hours and 13 Days' After His Death > Sponsored content. 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The very specific time for the tribute comes from [Prince’s song](http://time.com/4303780/prince-best-songs/?iid=sr-link1) “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which opens with the line: “It’s been 7 hours and 13 days, since you took your love away.” To mark the moment, Prince’s hometown radio station, Minneapolis’s The Current, has invited stations to join them in a simulcast where channels across the country will play Prince’s version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” at the same time, Wednesday at exactly 5:07 p.m. CT (that’s 6:07 ET/3:07 PT). Prince wrote the track in the mid-1980s, but it was in 1990 that Sinead O’Connor took the song to the top of the Billboard charts, making one minor change to the lyrics, changing the time from “7 hours and 13 days” to “7 hours and _15_ days.” A few years after the song become one of O’Connor’s hallmarks, Prince took the song to No. 62 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in 1994. Among stations in the U.S. reportedly joining in the simulcast are WFUV New York, WXPN Philadelphia and [KEXP Seattle](http://blog.kexp.org/2016/04/21/a-tribute-to-prince-from-dj-kevin-cole/), which have been paying tribute to the legend all week. \[H/T [Billboard](http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7356754/prince-nothing-compares-2-u-radio-simulcast)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/"},"headline":"Prince to Be Simulcast on Radio Stations '7 Hours and 13 Days' After His Death","datePublished":"2016-05-04T13:41:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:32:06.318Z","description":"\"Nothing Compares 2 U\" will be simulcast late afternoon Wednesday","url":"https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Prince","radio"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte05172bb4d5ba0db/698891cee20a8729dea90b25/prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte05172bb4d5ba0db/698891cee20a8729dea90b25/prince.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2013 Billboard Music Awards - Show","caption":"2013 Billboard Music Awards - Show","creditText":"Ethan Miller—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4317559/prince-radio-station-simulcast/","name":"Prince to Be Simulcast on Radio Stations '7 Hours and 13 Days' After His Death"}}]}] ```