The album's opening title track, "1999", was also its first single and initially peaked at #44 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. It was subsequently re-released following the huge success of its follow-up single and "1999"s second track, "Little Red Corvette", which peaked at #6 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 (like other Prince songs, it again charted after his death, reaching #3). Lisa Coleman - who sang on the album - recalled how Prince came up with "Little Red Corvette" after sleeping in her pink Mercury Montclair Maurauder. Shortly after being reissued, "1999" hit #12, and subsequently became one of Prince's most recognizable compositions. Its composition, and inclusion in the album, may have been originally prompted by a suggestion from the record company. The music videos for both "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" were significant as two of the first videos by a black artist to receive heavy rotation on the newly launched music video channel, MTV, after heated controversy over its failure to promote black performers. The two tracks were later combined as a double A-side single in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 2. A subsequent single from the album and its third chronological track, the rockabilly-influenced "Delirious", still managed top ten status in the United States at #8, but a fourth, the double-sided single "Let's Pretend We're Married"/"Irresistible Bitch", got no further than #52.