I've tallied the current Spotify streams of all Prince songs, lumping together multiple version of the same song (such as single and album edits, etc.), and I thought I'd share some of the results.

Here are the top 100 most streamed Prince songs as of April 14, 2019:

[1] Purple Rain: 129,358,336
[2] Kiss: 129,106,989
[3] When Doves Cry: 66,426,416
[4] Raspberry Beret: 50,159,976
[5] 1999: 36,599,808
[6] Let's Go Crazy: 34,604,075
[7] I Wanna Be Your Lover: 33,510,838
[8] Little Red Corvette: 31,043,081
[9] I Would Die 4 U: 26,571,280
[10] Nothing Compares 2 U: 14,908,953
[11] Stare: 12,172,819
[12] Cream: 11,274,446
[13] Sign o' the Times: 10,893,064
[14] Diamonds and Pearls: 10,333,586
[15] Darling Nikki: 8,959,086
[16] The Beautiful Ones: 8,841,145
[17] Controversy: 7,728,028
[18] U Got the Look: 7,502,766
[19] Erotic City: 7,440,053
[20] Gett Off: 6,935,363
[21] Take Me With U: 6,881,738
[22] Baby I'm a Star: 6,703,689
[23] Pop Life: 6,382,672
[24] Sexy MF: 6,119,455
[25] Delirious: 5,910,385
[26] Adore: 5,554,026
[27] 7: 5,240,373
[28] If I Was Your Girlfriend: 5,118,307
[29] Alphabet St.: 5,063,138
[30] Do Me, Baby: 4,860,759
[31] When You Were Mine: 4,812,191
[32] Money Don't Matter 2 Night: 4,787,849
[33] 17 Days: 4,215,550
[34] I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: 4,160,942
[35] Uptown: 4,081,061
[36] I Feel for You: 4,061,528
[37] She's Always in My Hair: 3,950,712
[38] Funknroll: 3,857,802
[39] Soft and Wet: 3,825,835
[40] Computer Blue: 3,803,954
[41] Thieves in the Temple: 3,698,723
[42] Breakfast Can Wait: 3,695,747
[43] Sometimes It Snows in April: 3,542,604
[44] Insatiable: 3,485,251
[45] A Case of U: 3,390,803
[46] Batdance: 3,234,618
[47] Dirty Mind: 3,183,396
[48] This Could Be Us: 3,045,699
[49] Scandalous: 3,021,394
[50] Partyman: 2,867,263
[51] My Name is Prince: 2,774,157
[52] International Lover: 2,683,886
[53] The Ballad of Dorothy Parker: 2,675,140
[54] U Know: 2,496,980
[55] Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad: 2,401,946
[56] Mountains: 2,385,029
[57] Breakdown: 2,215,090
[58] It's Gonna Be Lonely: 2,157,693
[59] Girls & Boys: 2,146,761
[60] Clouds: 2,134,920
[61] How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore: 2,118,520
[62] Lady Cab Driver: 2,083,152
[63] Housequake: 2,070,902
[64] Electric Intercourse: 2,053,108
[65] Hot Thing: 2,033,429
[66] Starfish and Coffee: 2,011,372
[67] Anotherloverholenyohead: 1,947,646
[68] Mary Don't You Weep: 1,806,446
[69] Head: 1,744,359
[70] Sexy Dancer: 1,707,229
[71] Black Sweat: 1,575,005
[72] Paisley Park: 1,465,449
[73] Art Offical Cage: 1,380,759
[74] Under the Cherry Moon: 1,367,115
[75] So Blue: 1,332,918
[76] Strange Relationship: 1,332,137
[77] Something in the Water (Does Not Compute): 1,306,269
[78] Come: 1,278,597
[79] The Cross: 1,240,824
[80] The Gold Standard: 1,229,384
[81] America: 1,222,633
[82] Let's Work: 1,201,829
[83] The Morning Papers: 1,172,261
[84] D.M.S.R.: 1,165,978
[85] Another Lonely Christmas: 1,103,504
[86] Pink Cashmere: 1,081,906
[87] Damn U: 1,072,707
[88] Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden: 1,060,699
[89] Chelsea Rodgers: 973,731
[90] Space: 972,818
[91] Bambi: 967,597
[92] Let's Pretend We're Married: 965,075
[93] Pretzelbodylogic: 947,661
[94] Venus de Milo: 911,659
[95] Way Back Home: 898,062
[96] Time: 869,157
[97] Slow Love: 856,451
[98] What It Feels Like: 841,346
[99] Peach: 813,060
[100] When We're Dancing Close and Slow: 804,322

Mostly the usual suspects at the top, though "Stare" retains is unusal high stream status courtesy of being the only Prince song available on Spotify for years. You can also see the impact that the popular "This Is Prince" playlist has, as songs like "So Blue" would be very unlikely to place in the top 100 otherwise.

The highest non-single appears to be "Darling Nikki", with "The Beautiful Ones" nipping at its heels.

I last did this in Feburary 2017, so here are the top 100 most streamed songs since then. The order is mostly the same, with some notable changes (like "Stare" dropping down to #50). "Kiss" has overtaken "Purple Rain" just barely over the past 2+ years. The top 20 is a pretty good representation of his biggest "hits", and shows that songs like "Erotic City" and some of the album tracks from Purple Rain have as much prominence as other relatively well-performing singles during his heyday.

[1] Kiss: 104,187,716
[2] Purple Rain: 104,066,556
[3] When Doves Cry: 48,949,395
[4] Raspberry Beret: 40,760,766
[5] Let's Go Crazy: 27,445,439
[6] 1999: 27,110,894
[7] I Wanna Be Your Lover: 21,191,198
[8] Little Red Corvette: 20,985,853
[9] I Would Die 4 U: 19,765,314
[10] Nothing Compares 2 U: 12,288,487
[11] Cream: 7,635,943
[12] Diamonds and Pearls: 7,018,814
[13] The Beautiful Ones: 6,932,160
[14] Sign o' the Times: 6,911,651
[15] Darling Nikki: 6,659,641
[16] Erotic City: 5,891,213
[17] Controversy: 5,615,623
[18] Take Me With U: 5,444,440
[19] Baby I'm a Star: 5,312,784
[20] Pop Life: 4,970,169
[21] U Got the Look: 4,817,546
[22] Delirious: 4,730,615
[23] Sexy MF: 4,522,836
[24] Gett Off: 4,403,271
[25] Adore: 3,982,726
[26] 17 Days: 3,934,579
[27] 7: 3,835,963
[28] If I Was Your Girlfriend: 3,621,538
[29] Do Me, Baby: 3,587,661
[30] A Case of U: 3,390,803
[31] Money Don't Matter 2 Night: 3,390,103
[32] She's Always in My Hair: 3,381,754
[33] When You Were Mine: 3,343,902
[34] Insatiable: 3,261,428
[35] Alphabet St.: 3,146,935
[36] Soft and Wet: 3,142,567
[37] I Feel for You: 2,967,157
[38] Uptown: 2,962,436
[39] Sometimes It Snows in April: 2,852,926
[40] I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: 2,797,473
[41] Computer Blue: 2,775,380
[42] Scandalous: 2,655,657
[43] Batdance: 2,600,085
[44] Dirty Mind: 2,423,268
[45] International Lover: 2,422,115
[46] Thieves in the Temple: 2,278,304
[47] The Ballad of Dorothy Parker: 2,276,167
[48] My Name is Prince: 2,232,692
[49] Partyman: 2,231,774
[50] Stare: 2,097,733
[51] Mountains: 2,097,376
[52] Electric Intercourse: 2,053,108
[53] It's Gonna Be Lonely: 1,907,897
[54] Mary Don't You Weep: 1,806,446
[55] Breakfast Can Wait: 1,794,561
[56] Lady Cab Driver: 1,774,699
[57] Housequake: 1,716,389
[58] Girls & Boys: 1,669,743
[59] Anotherloverholenyohead: 1,638,534
[60] How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore: 1,595,325
[61] Hot Thing: 1,585,731
[62] Black Sweat: 1,575,005
[63] Starfish and Coffee: 1,501,515
[64] Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad: 1,473,148
[65] Funknroll: 1,468,108
[66] So Blue: 1,264,612
[67] This Could Be Us: 1,232,875
[68] Under the Cherry Moon: 1,129,162
[69] Something in the Water (Does Not Compute): 1,097,711
[70] Paisley Park: 1,094,792
[71] Come: 1,089,125
[72] Strange Relationship: 1,082,806
[73] Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden: 1,060,699
[74] Head: 1,058,701
[75] America: 1,038,200
[76] The Morning Papers: 1,020,715
[77] Damn U: 983,471
[78] Chelsea Rodgers: 973,731
[79] Sexy Dancer: 930,066
[80] The Cross: 906,106
[81] Space: 842,952
[82] D.M.S.R.: 796,243
[83] Let's Work: 772,729
[84] Venus de Milo: 772,685
[85] Gold: 727,789
[86] Clouds: 704,786
[87] Graffiti Bridge: 700,142
[88] P Control: 682,684
[89] Guitar: 677,182
[90] A Case of You: 670,726
[91] Another Lonely Christmas: 653,401
[92] Call My Name: 648,618
[93] Musicology: 639,183
[94] Let's Pretend We're Married: 627,798
[95] Glam Slam: 618,463

[96] Sister: 614,565
[97] Bambi: 608,989
[98] Slow Love: 577,791
[99] Breakdown: 574,973
[100] The Dance Electric: 573,411

Moonbeam said:

It's because he released Stare excuslively to Spotify first and that was the only Prince song you were able to stream since his catalouge was pulled from Spotify.

jdcxc said:

Moonbeam said:

I've tallied the current Spotify streams of all Prince songs, lumping together multiple version of the same song (such as single and album edits, etc.), and I thought I'd share some of the results.

Here are the top 100 most streamed Prince songs as of April 14, 2019:

[1] Purple Rain: 129,358,336
[2] Kiss: 129,106,989
[3] When Doves Cry: 66,426,416
[4] Raspberry Beret: 50,159,976
[5] 1999: 36,599,808
[6] Let's Go Crazy: 34,604,075
[7] I Wanna Be Your Lover: 33,510,838
[8] Little Red Corvette: 31,043,081
[9] I Would Die 4 U: 26,571,280
[10] Nothing Compares 2 U: 14,908,953
[11] Stare: 12,172,819
[12] Cream: 11,274,446
[13] Sign o' the Times: 10,893,064
[14] Diamonds and Pearls: 10,333,586
[15] Darling Nikki: 8,959,086
[16] The Beautiful Ones: 8,841,145
[17] Controversy: 7,728,028
[18] U Got the Look: 7,502,766
[19] Erotic City: 7,440,053
[20] Gett Off: 6,935,363
[21] Take Me With U: 6,881,738
[22] Baby I'm a Star: 6,703,689
[23] Pop Life: 6,382,672
[24] Sexy MF: 6,119,455
[25] Delirious: 5,910,385
[26] Adore: 5,554,026
[27] 7: 5,240,373
[28] If I Was Your Girlfriend: 5,118,307
[29] Alphabet St.: 5,063,138
[30] Do Me, Baby: 4,860,759
[31] When You Were Mine: 4,812,191
[32] Money Don't Matter 2 Night: 4,787,849
[33] 17 Days: 4,215,550
[34] I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man: 4,160,942
[35] Uptown: 4,081,061
[36] I Feel for You: 4,061,528
[37] She's Always in My Hair: 3,950,712
[38] Funknroll: 3,857,802
[39] Soft and Wet: 3,825,835
[40] Computer Blue: 3,803,954
[41] Thieves in the Temple: 3,698,723
[42] Breakfast Can Wait: 3,695,747
[43] Sometimes It Snows in April: 3,542,604
[44] Insatiable: 3,485,251
[45] A Case of U: 3,390,803
[46] Batdance: 3,234,618
[47] Dirty Mind: 3,183,396
[48] This Could Be Us: 3,045,699
[49] Scandalous: 3,021,394
[50] Partyman: 2,867,263
[51] My Name is Prince: 2,774,157
[52] International Lover: 2,683,886
[53] The Ballad of Dorothy Parker: 2,675,140
[54] U Know: 2,496,980
[55] Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad: 2,401,946
[56] Mountains: 2,385,029
[57] Breakdown: 2,215,090
[58] It's Gonna Be Lonely: 2,157,693
[59] Girls & Boys: 2,146,761
[60] Clouds: 2,134,920
[61] How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore: 2,118,520
[62] Lady Cab Driver: 2,083,152
[63] Housequake: 2,070,902
[64] Electric Intercourse: 2,053,108
[65] Hot Thing: 2,033,429
[66] Starfish and Coffee: 2,011,372
[67] Anotherloverholenyohead: 1,947,646
[68] Mary Don't You Weep: 1,806,446
[69] Head: 1,744,359
[70] Sexy Dancer: 1,707,229
[71] Black Sweat: 1,575,005
[72] Paisley Park: 1,465,449
[73] Art Offical Cage: 1,380,759
[74] Under the Cherry Moon: 1,367,115
[75] So Blue: 1,332,918
[76] Strange Relationship: 1,332,137
[77] Something in the Water (Does Not Compute): 1,306,269
[78] Come: 1,278,597
[79] The Cross: 1,240,824
[80] The Gold Standard: 1,229,384
[81] America: 1,222,633
[82] Let's Work: 1,201,829
[83] The Morning Papers: 1,172,261
[84] D.M.S.R.: 1,165,978
[85] Another Lonely Christmas: 1,103,504
[86] Pink Cashmere: 1,081,906
[87] Damn U: 1,072,707
[88] Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden: 1,060,699
[89] Chelsea Rodgers: 973,731
[90] Space: 972,818
[91] Bambi: 967,597
[92] Let's Pretend We're Married: 965,075
[93] Pretzelbodylogic: 947,661
[94] Venus de Milo: 911,659
[95] Way Back Home: 898,062
[96] Time: 869,157
[97] Slow Love: 856,451
[98] What It Feels Like: 841,346
[99] Peach: 813,060
[100] When We're Dancing Close and Slow: 804,322

Mostly the usual suspects at the top, though "Stare" retains is unusal high stream status courtesy of being the only Prince song available on Spotify for years. You can also see the impact that the popular "This Is Prince" playlist has, as songs like "So Blue" would be very unlikely to place in the top 100 otherwise.

The highest non-single appears to be "Darling Nikki", with "The Beautiful Ones" nipping at its heels.

Strange to see “Stare” so high...cool song but not mainstream hit.

We all know the situation with how slow Prince was to join the streaming platforms... But to compare him to just modern artists today and their streaming numbers...

List 1-4 is abot the average numbers popular modern artists have today...

50 - 100 million streaming range...

But it's shocking that such iconic songs in his catalogue, his total streaming numbers are what most artists get in a week.

feeluupp said:

We all know the situation with how slow Prince was to join the streaming platforms... But to compare him to just modern artists today and their streaming numbers...

List 1-4 is abot the average numbers popular modern artists have today...

50 - 100 million streaming range...

But it's shocking that such iconic songs in his catalogue, his total streaming numbers are what most artists get in a week.

I think it's a generational thing. Hundreds of millions seems to be the high bar for 80s hits. Even MJ only seems to have around 10 that have crossed 100,000,000 streams. As far as I can tell, Madonna doesn't have any (though she could have some that make it there when combining versions). Srpingsteen has 4. U2 have 5. Prince is doing pretty well with streaming given that his halcyon days catalogue has only been available for just over 2 years.

How are you able to see the streaming numbers for all of his songs, and not just the top 10 most streamed?

It's a crime "3 Chains o' Gold" isn't in the top 100.

Halen said:

It's a crime "3 Chains o' Gold" isn't in the top 100.

3 chains o gold is a crime

RicoN said:

I listened to Mountains this morning, so make that [56] Mountains: 2,385,030...

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Is missing.

That's over 850,000,000 streams. At the maximum SPotify payout of $0.0084 per stream, that's more than $7,000,000 from Spotify, correct?

For what time period is this?

What other streaming sites are there that would pay Prince? iTunes? Anyone else? I don't stream music so I don't know. But if the estate made as much from iTunes streaming as it does from Spotify, it would seem that's a healthy income.

Mikado said:

I ask again, OP, how are you able to get these numbers?

On a desktop computer, if you hover over the popularity bars for a song when viewing a release, it will show the total plays.

I'm gonna be bold and say that if "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World" would be released on spotify, it would destroy Kiss.

Real talk.