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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World is een single van Prince. Het is afkomstig van zijn album The Gold Experience, dat anderhalf jaar later zou verschijnen. Het nummer werd ook samen met zes remixen op de ep The Beautiful Experience uitgebracht.

Het was de eerste single waarbij "Prince" niet op de hoes werd vermeld; hij wilde voortaan uitgebeeld worden met O(+>, waarvan hij de uitspraak niet bekendmaakte. De titel van het nummer verwijst naar Mayte Garcia. Zij kenden elkaar sinds 1990 en zouden in februari 1996 trouwen (en in 2000 scheiden). Ook Vanessa Marcil schijnt een inspiratiebron voor hem geweest te zijn. Mayte was ook te zien in de reclamecampagne voor dit nummer.

Het nummer was deels te horen tijdens de Miss Americawedstrijd in 1994.

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" is a song by American musician Prince, released in various forms on the 1994 remixes EP The Beautiful Experience and later on his seventeenth album, The Gold Experience (1995). In his singles chronology, it was his third major release since changing his stage name to an unpronounceable "Love Symbol" (also known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince). In his albums chronology, it along with the EP was his second release after changing his name.

With the consent of Prince's usual record distributor Warner Bros. Records, the song was released by NPG Records in North America and Edel Music in the rest of the world and independently distributed by Bellmark Records in the US, under the control and guidance of Music of Life, as a one-off single, topping five different charts. It also remains Prince's only number one single on the UK Singles Chart, and was shortly followed by the release of The Beautiful Experience that also charted on No. 18 in the UK. The version that was released on The Gold Experience is a different mix of the song. Its music video was directed by Prince and Antoine Fuqua, depicting a collage of girls and women watching footage of themselves living their fantasies mixed with Prince performing for them. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was nominated in the category for Tune of the Year at the 1995 International Dance Awards 1995.