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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...51&cid=abcn_fb

A vault purportedly containing unreleased Prince songs was drilled open, according to ABC News affiliate KSTP-TV.

The singer, who released 39 studio albums and dozens of other musical projects, died April 21 at his Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, Minnesota. He was 57.

Bremer Trust, the St. Cloud, Minnesota, company given temporary authority over Prince's estate, opened the vault to which only Prince had the code, KSTP-TV added.

Previously, Prince spoke openly about his treasure trove of music on "The View."

"One day, someone will release them. I don't know that I'll get to release them," he said back in 2012. "There's just so many."

The seven-time Grammy Award winner reportedly left behind a vault containing so much music his estate could put out an album a year for the next century.

"We could put out more work in a month than most people could do in a year or more," Susan Rogers, Prince's former recording engineer, told ABC's "Good Morning America."

The news of Prince's vault being opened comes as his sister, Tyka Nelson, claimed earlier this week that the singer had no will or trust, according to paperwork she filed in Minneapolis.

The documents obtained by ABC News, signed by Nelson, state, "I do not know of the existence of a will and have no reason to believe that the decedent executed testamentary documents in any form."

State law says that if Prince didn't have a will or trust, his estate is set to be divided between Nelson and his five half-siblings.

Damn, this is crazy

[arista]

Quincy Jones
needs to go through the tracks
and start doing CD and Downloads
he would know the good stuff

[GiRTh]

It was always rumoured he had hundreds of songs that he never released.

[Mystic Mock]

I don't feel comfortable with Record Labels making money off a dead man.

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I don't feel comfortable with Record Labels making money off a dead man.

It doesn't say they will do, it's just talking about the amount of music
when they do inevitably release stuff heres hoping funds go to his family

[Mokka]

I am personally happy to think that his talent and genius will get to continue to impact our world of music.. I mean, I don't want an album a year for a century... but maybe they have him actually singing and playing a solid album... and then other musicians can carry the mantle of his music forward through using what he left behind to innovate new music going forward.

He was a successful musician, no doubt, but I have always felt he was undervalued by the general population. Wouldn't it be something if in 10 or 20 years time the hit songs on the radio came from his vault today