charts discussion Prince's music streamed 12.6 million times in first 4 days

[Hector]

PRINCE: ROYALLY AWESOME STREAMING NUMBERS

The long-awaited release of the Prince catalog on all on-demand streaming services bore immediate fruit, according to info from BuzzAngle Music. The first two days the music was available (2/12 and 2/13), Prince songs were streamed 5.9 million times.

Previously exclusive to Tidal, the across-the-board availability of Prince’s music resulted in astronomical increases.  The last time Prince received more than 5 million streams was on April 29, 2016, just weeks after his death.

This was just the second time in the past six months when more than 1 million Prince tracks were streamed. Total streaming activity on Prince albums increased 5,578 % compared to the previous five days.

 During those first two days, Purple Rain was the most streamed album (1,535,608 streams), followed by 1999 (701,153 total streams). “Let’s Go Crazy” was the most streamed song (339, 748 streams). 

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http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=305003

 

Glad they realize that Tidal alone doesn't pay the bills

 

Edited February 18, 2017 by Hector

[Domination]

6 million isn't mind blowing.

[KimmyBella]

They should've release his music to Spotify the minute after he died tbh. 

[qurl]

i'm sure his beneficiaries are so happy ya'll bought into this

[DavidXuBarco]

Okay, but who is getting the royalties? 

[DaenerysFenty]

Not that much, but they didn't really make a HUGE announcement

[GreasyBruce]

But where are his 90s albums?  Where are The Gold Experience, Emancipation, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic?  They're not available on iTunes either ffs.

[ManDown]

I'm anxious to see what a full week of streaming will look like for him. And how this will effect the charts.

 

P.S. I've been streaming religiously over the last few days.

[TKO]

8 hours ago, GreasyBruce said:

But where are his 90s albums?  Where are The Gold Experience, Emancipation, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic?  They're not available on iTunes either ffs.

It's probably because it belongs to different labels, i think only his Warner albums are on Spotify.

[Gengar]

Purple Rain is already at ~27mil on Spotify though 

[Legacy]

15 hours ago, GreasyBruce said:

But where are his 90s albums?  Where are The Gold Experience, Emancipation, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic?  They're not available on iTunes either ffs.

Rave sucks but this?!!

 

[Hector]

Prince's Streaming Numbers: 'Purple Rain' & Other Hits Lead, But There Are Some Surprises

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By Jem Aswad | February 17, 2017 5:45 PM EST

 

Prince performs "Lolita" and "Satisfied" on the "American Idol" Season 5 finale.

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As Prince’s catalog reaches the end of its first week back on major streaming services, the numbers show no signs of slowing down.

Prince’s music from the first 17 years of his career -- including most of his major hits -- returned to most major streaming services on Feb. 12, after being available only on Tidal since July of 2015 after the artist struck a deal with the company that is currently in dispute. The now-widely available music stretches from his 1978 debut, For You, through 1994's Come (along with several compilations); most of his releases after that period remain exclusive to Tidal. 

Preliminary reports suggest Prince’s entire streaming catalog, including Tidal-only works, earned 12.67 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. from Feb. 12–15, according to Nielsen Music.

Following the Feb. 12 expansion, Prince’s five most-streamed songs through Feb. 15 (measured by U.S. on-demand audio streams) are as follow:

1. “Purple Rain” (764,000)
2. “Let’s Go Crazy” (732,000)
3. “When Doves Cry” (695,000)
4. “Kiss” (602,000)
5. “Little Red Corvette” (514,000)
6. “1999” (431,000)
7. “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (386,000)
8. “Raspberry Beret” (360,000)
9. “Delirious” (264,000)
10. “Sign O’ The Times” (257,000)

While the above list isn’t too surprising -- eight of the 10 songs reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the two exceptions, “Lover” and “1999” reached Nos. 11 and 12, respectively -- several Prince album cuts also proved popular in their first week of widespread streaming availability.

Prince’s highest-streaming non-Hot 100 hit in the days following his catalog’s expansion was the raunchy “Darling Nikki,” which pulled 222,000 streams. The song was notably a catalyst for Tipper Gore’s founding of the Parents Music Resource Center, whose work eventually led to the adoption of “Parental Advisory” stickers’ on songs and albums deemed to contain explicit content.

 

 

“Nikki” leads Prince's five highest-streamed songs that did not reach the Hot 100, which also includes two songs -- "Erotic City" and "She's Always in My Hair" -- that were originally released as B-sides in 1984 and '85, respectively. The full top five alternative cuts, as measured by U.S. on-demand audio streams, are as follow:

1. “Darling Nikki” (222,000; the 14th most streamed overall Prince song for the period)
2. “The Beautiful Ones” (193,000; 16th overall)
3. “Erotic City” (172,000; 19th overall)
4. “Adore” (163,000; 21st overall)
5. “She’s Always in My Hair” (158,000; 23rd overall)

Notably, the first four tunes on the list have each gathered more streams at this point than some established Prince hit singles, including the 1991 Hot 100 No. 1 hit single “Cream” (162,000 streams, ranking as Prince’s 22nd highest-streamed track in the period) and the appropriately-titled No. 7-peaking “7” (141,000 streams).

The services surveyed for this report are Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime, Apple Music, Google Play, Groove, Music Pass (from Xbox), Medianet, Napster, Soundcloud, Slacker, Spotify and Tidal.

 

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/7694244/princes-streaming-numbers-purple-rain-other-hits-lead

[americanshameless]

The promo is very heavy on this. His Spotify posters are all over London

[Bacardo Royale]

7 hours ago, Gengar said:

Purple Rain is already at ~27mil on Spotify though 

I'm so confused, when did it get that many streams? 

[Gengar]

1 hour ago, OpenBacardi said:

I'm so confused, when did it get that many streams? 

Right?

like that's NOT possible 

[TKO]

2 hours ago, OpenBacardi said:

I'm so confused, when did it get that many streams? 

His discog was available on Spotify two years ago. Then he had a exclusive deal with TIDAL and they deleted his music. Now he's back on Spotify they probably added previous streaming numbers.

[Bacardo Royale]

7 hours ago, TKO said:

His discog was available on Spotify two years ago. Then he had a exclusive deal with TIDAL and they deleted his music. Now he's back on Spotify they probably added previous streaming numbers.

Ahh makes sense now