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"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"
UK 7" single
Single by Prince from the album The Gold Experience
B-side	"Beautiful" "Beautiful" (Extended Club Version)" (UK 12") "Beautiful Beats" (UK 12")
Released	February 1994
Format	7" single 12" single Cassette single CD single
Recorded	Paisley Park Studios, September 1993–March 1994; Mixed by Tom Tucker and Ricky Peterson with Fred Harrington
Genre	Pop Ballad
Length	4:07
Label	NPG Records Bellmark Records
Writer	Prince
Producer	Prince
Prince singles chronology
"Peach" (1993) "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (1994) "The Beautiful Experience" (1994)
Prince (UK) chronology
"Controversy" (1993)	"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (1994)	"The Beautiful Experience" (1994)

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" is a song by Prince from his 1995 album The Gold Experience. It was his first release since changing his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol. With the consent of Prince's usual record distributor Warner Bros., "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was released by NPG Records and independently distributed by Bellmark Records. The single was released in February 1994, and was shortly followed by an EP of remixes titled The Beautiful Experience. The version that was released on The Gold Experience is a different mix of the song.

The original track is a slow-grooving ballad in falsetto that seranades a beautiful woman, and was likely directed toward his soon to be fiancé Mayte Garcia, whom he later married on Valentine's Day, 1996. The song was played during the Miss America Pageant in 1994, and later released on Valentine's Day. It later appeared (slightly altered and replayed) on The Gold Experience. The song is based in light guitar, keyboards and live drums. Although most of the song is sung in falsetto with Prince reaching some extremely high notes, the bridge has him using his regular voice as well as a very low voice for contrast.

Mayte Garcia later recorded her own version called "The Most Beautiful Boy In The World" on her album Children Of The Sun. It was the same instrumental track with her vocals recorded over it, with a few slight adlib changes. A fan later mixed the two versions and created a "duet" of the two singers singing the song together.

The song was a worldwide hit and established Prince's ability to succeed commercially under his new name.

"The Most Beautiful Girl In the World" is Prince's highest charting single using the symbolic moniker, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also his first (and to date, only) UK #1 single under any name as a performer. He did have two other UK #1s as a songwriter: he was the composer of the 1984 hit single "I Feel for You" by Chaka Khan and Sinéad O'Connor's 1990 cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U", which had originally been recorded by Prince protégés The Family.

The B-side for the single was a remix of the track "Beautiful", an edit of one of the mixes on The Beautiful Experience EP. In addition, a UK issued 12" single also contained an "Extended Club Version" of "Beautiful" and a mix called "Beautiful Beats".

1. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" - 4:06
2. "Beautiful" - 3:54

• "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" lyrics