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So far Spotify only listed the number of spins for the Top 10 songs of an artist. Now you can see the number of spins for all songs. I thought it would be interesting to summerize how many spins each of his songs get. Some are not surprising, some are and there are some shockingly ignored gems.
Some songs have several versions on Spotify (album version, single version, 2003 edit etc.). In those cases I added the numbers. I completely ignored remixes (except for Xscape) and I counted demos seperately. I'm yet to include Jacksons and J5 material, but it's coming up.
So here are the numbers by album:
Off The Wall
1. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Album version + Essential version) 17,158,579
2. Rock with You (Album+Single version) 12,490,703
3. Off The Wall (Album version + Essential version) 5,045,398
4. She's Out of My Life 4,121,632
5. Workin' Day and Night 2,311,405
6. I Can't Help It 1,067,219
7. Get on the Floor 1,023,370
8. Girlfriend 830,586
9. Burn This Disco Out 641,422
10. It's The Falling in Love 633,301
Most shockinly underrated song of the album: Get on the Floor. I guess it has to do with the fact that it wasn't a single.
Thriller 25
1. Billie Jean 76,540,831 (MJ's most listened to song on Spotify)
2. Beat It 48,828,468
3. Thriller (Album Version+Single Version+2003 Edit) 40,742,020
4. P.Y.T. 20,940,612
5. Human Nature (Album Version + Essential) 15,535,587
6. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin (Album Version+Single Version) 14,374,620
7. The Girl Is Mine 6,462,160
8. Baby Be Mine 2,281,033
9. The Lady In My Life 1,907,726
10. Someone In The Dark 794,985
11. Billie Jean Home Demo 1981 409,763
12. Carousel 303,359
Surprise hit: P.Y.T.
Underrated IMO: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (one of MJ's best songs IMO) and The Lady In My Life (better than both The Girl Is Mine or Baby Be Mine IMO.)
Bad 25
1. Man In The Mirror (Album Version + 2003 Edit) 52,440,870
2. Smooth Criminal 39,332,963
3. The Way You Make Me Feel (Album Version + Single Version) 27,711,620
4. Dirty Diana 21,741,285
5. Bad 20,689,927
6. I Just Can't Stop Loving You 10,728,014
7. Leave Me Alone 5,683,117
8. Liberian Girl 5,265,380
9. Another Part of Me 4,214,445
10. Speed Demon 2,471,286
11. Just Good Friends 1,847,640
12. Streetwalker 1,090,383
13. Don't Be Messin' 'Round 974,261
14. I'm So Blue 892,681
15. Al Capone 820,598
16. Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu 808,652
17. Abortion Papers 772,812
18. Free 737,147
19. Fly Away 730,321
20. Price of Fame 671,621
21. Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous 521,333
Underrated IMO: Another Part of Me. Surprised to see Don't Be Messin' as the second most spun demo because it's pretty uncomplete, but it is indeed a great tune.
Dangerous
1. Black or White (Album + Single Version) 32,116,558
2. Heal The World 11,460,210
3. Will You Be There (Album Version + Single Version) 8,796,648
4. Remember The Time 8,412,512
5. Jam 4,529,555
6. Who Is It (Album Version + 7" Edit) 4,495,151
7. Give In To Me 3,481,223
8. In The Closet (Album Version + Single Version) 3,115,457
9. Dangerous 1,821,013
10. Why You Wanna Trip On Me 877,254
11. Gone Too Soon 709,525
12. She Drives Me Wild 631,464
13. Keep The Faith 615,227
14. Can't Let Her Get Away 560,918
This is where the real criminalities begin. Heal The World second, but Who Is It down on sixth? To an extent I understand Black or White, because it was a Nr 1. hit, but to me it's almost one of the weakest tracks on the album. It's a nice pop song, but rather uninteresting musically compared to the genius of Who Is It, Give In To Me or passion of Will You Be There etc. People should really allow themselves to look beyond the hyped hits.
HIStory
1. They Don't Care About Us 25,382,339
2. Earth Song (Album Version + Radio Edit) 13,086,471
3. You Are Not Alone (Album Version + Single Version + Radio Edit) 12,399,681
4. Scream 2,680,106
5. Stranger in Moscow 2,650,572
6. Come Together 1,868,110
7. Smile 963,782
8. Childhood 782,688
9. History 575,165
10. Tabloid Junkie 551,795
11. 2 Bad 530,134
12. This Time Around 509,175
13. D.S. 508,044
14. Money 496,388
15. Little Susie 453,670
More criminalities... Especially Stranger in Moscow massively underrated. So much better song than YANA. Actually almost every other song better on this album than YANA IMO. But then that was the #1 single. Glad to see TDCAU getting the love it deserves though, despite of it being buried under an artificial scandal by the US media when it was released.
Blood on the Dance Floor
1. Blood on the Dance Floor 2,804,350
2. Ghosts 1,493,972
3. Morphine 418,524
4. Is It Scary 368,236
5. Superfly Sister 235,187
Invincible
1. You Rock My World (Album Version + Essential + Radio Edit) 11,240,284
2. Butterflies 2,062,900
3. Speechless 1,148,959
4. Break of Dawn 1,130,863
5. Unbreakable 1,070,162
6. Whatever Happens 822,919
7. Heaven Can Wait 673,860
8. Invincible 452,249
9. Heartbreaker 440,229
10. Cry 416,271
11. You Are My Life 396,789
12. 2000 Watts 379,353
13. The Lost Children 357,322
14. Don't Walk Away 312,708
15. Privacy 311,145
16. Threatened 302,182
And the biggest criminality of all: Threatened being not only the least spun on Invincible but being his second least spun of all only after Superfly Sister... One of his best songs IMO and definitely one of the best on this album.
The posthumus albums (since they are fresher, esp. Xscape, they automatically get relatively bigger number of spins as any new music tends to get more spins than old songs).
Michael
1. Hold My Hand 35,172,497
2. Hollywood Tonight 3,419,236
3. (I Like) The Way You Love Me 1,658,800
4. Behind The Mask 1,471,783
5. Much Too Soon 1,198,369
6. (I Can't Make It) Another Day 1,086,704
7. Best of Joy 979,367
The real bitter part which almost made me throw up about people's ears and tastes:
The fakes:
Monster 2,499,705
Keep Your Head Up 1,763,324
Breaking News 1,070,150
It's very sad to see that these crappy fake ones got more spins than Best of Joy, Much Too Soon, Behind The Mask... I'd like to think it's only due to the controversy and people getting curious of these songs when hearing about the controversy. If not, I get consoled by the fact that this is after all the generation which keeps the likes of Niki Minaj and Iggy Azalea high on the charts...
Xscape
1. Love Never Felt So Good (JT duet) 29,706,019
2. Love Never Felt So Good (solo) 27,013,749
3. A Place With No Name 7,820,601
4. Slave to the Rhythm 6,837,872
5. Chicago 4,826,541
6. Do You Know Where Your Children Are (remix and original combined - for some reason there is no seperate number for these) 4,397,617
7. Loving You 4,347,157
8. Blue Gangsta (remix and original combined - for some reason there is no seperate number for these) 4,178,144
9. Love Never Felt So Good (original) 3,349,064
10. Xscape 3,115,457
11. A Place with No Name (original) 2,031,099
12. Slave to the Rhythm (original) 1,854,061
13. Chicago (original) 1,832,656
14. Loving You (original) 1,745,587
15. Xscape (original) 1,431,127
I guess here the surprise is the original Xscape being last. The number of spins the solo and duet version LNFSG got is pretty similar though, JT version only has 2 million more spins.
This Is It
1. This Is It 6,433,174
2. This Is It - Orchestra Version 1,477,802
3. She's Out of My Life (demo) 1,179,548
4. Beat It (demo) 1,161,316
5. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (demo) 994,864
6. Planet Earth (poem) 755,567
A full list:
(I did not include the fake Cascio tracks.)
Some songs have several versions on Spotify (album version, single version, 2003 edit etc.). In those cases I added the numbers. I completely ignored remixes (except for Xscape) and I counted demos seperately. I'm yet to include Jacksons and J5 material, but it's coming up.
So here are the numbers by album:
Off The Wall
1. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Album version + Essential version) 17,158,579
2. Rock with You (Album+Single version) 12,490,703
3. Off The Wall (Album version + Essential version) 5,045,398
4. She's Out of My Life 4,121,632
5. Workin' Day and Night 2,311,405
6. I Can't Help It 1,067,219
7. Get on the Floor 1,023,370
8. Girlfriend 830,586
9. Burn This Disco Out 641,422
10. It's The Falling in Love 633,301
Most shockinly underrated song of the album: Get on the Floor. I guess it has to do with the fact that it wasn't a single.
Thriller 25
1. Billie Jean 76,540,831 (MJ's most listened to song on Spotify)
2. Beat It 48,828,468
3. Thriller (Album Version+Single Version+2003 Edit) 40,742,020
4. P.Y.T. 20,940,612
5. Human Nature (Album Version + Essential) 15,535,587
6. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin (Album Version+Single Version) 14,374,620
7. The Girl Is Mine 6,462,160
8. Baby Be Mine 2,281,033
9. The Lady In My Life 1,907,726
10. Someone In The Dark 794,985
11. Billie Jean Home Demo 1981 409,763
12. Carousel 303,359
Surprise hit: P.Y.T.
Underrated IMO: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (one of MJ's best songs IMO) and The Lady In My Life (better than both The Girl Is Mine or Baby Be Mine IMO.)
Bad 25
1. Man In The Mirror (Album Version + 2003 Edit) 52,440,870
2. Smooth Criminal 39,332,963
3. The Way You Make Me Feel (Album Version + Single Version) 27,711,620
4. Dirty Diana 21,741,285
5. Bad 20,689,927
6. I Just Can't Stop Loving You 10,728,014
7. Leave Me Alone 5,683,117
8. Liberian Girl 5,265,380
9. Another Part of Me 4,214,445
10. Speed Demon 2,471,286
11. Just Good Friends 1,847,640
12. Streetwalker 1,090,383
13. Don't Be Messin' 'Round 974,261
14. I'm So Blue 892,681
15. Al Capone 820,598
16. Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu 808,652
17. Abortion Papers 772,812
18. Free 737,147
19. Fly Away 730,321
20. Price of Fame 671,621
21. Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous 521,333
Underrated IMO: Another Part of Me. Surprised to see Don't Be Messin' as the second most spun demo because it's pretty uncomplete, but it is indeed a great tune.
Dangerous
1. Black or White (Album + Single Version) 32,116,558
2. Heal The World 11,460,210
3. Will You Be There (Album Version + Single Version) 8,796,648
4. Remember The Time 8,412,512
5. Jam 4,529,555
6. Who Is It (Album Version + 7" Edit) 4,495,151
7. Give In To Me 3,481,223
8. In The Closet (Album Version + Single Version) 3,115,457
9. Dangerous 1,821,013
10. Why You Wanna Trip On Me 877,254
11. Gone Too Soon 709,525
12. She Drives Me Wild 631,464
13. Keep The Faith 615,227
14. Can't Let Her Get Away 560,918
This is where the real criminalities begin. Heal The World second, but Who Is It down on sixth? To an extent I understand Black or White, because it was a Nr 1. hit, but to me it's almost one of the weakest tracks on the album. It's a nice pop song, but rather uninteresting musically compared to the genius of Who Is It, Give In To Me or passion of Will You Be There etc. People should really allow themselves to look beyond the hyped hits.
HIStory
1. They Don't Care About Us 25,382,339
2. Earth Song (Album Version + Radio Edit) 13,086,471
3. You Are Not Alone (Album Version + Single Version + Radio Edit) 12,399,681
4. Scream 2,680,106
5. Stranger in Moscow 2,650,572
6. Come Together 1,868,110
7. Smile 963,782
8. Childhood 782,688
9. History 575,165
10. Tabloid Junkie 551,795
11. 2 Bad 530,134
12. This Time Around 509,175
13. D.S. 508,044
14. Money 496,388
15. Little Susie 453,670
More criminalities... Especially Stranger in Moscow massively underrated. So much better song than YANA. Actually almost every other song better on this album than YANA IMO. But then that was the #1 single. Glad to see TDCAU getting the love it deserves though, despite of it being buried under an artificial scandal by the US media when it was released.
Blood on the Dance Floor
1. Blood on the Dance Floor 2,804,350
2. Ghosts 1,493,972
3. Morphine 418,524
4. Is It Scary 368,236
5. Superfly Sister 235,187
Invincible
1. You Rock My World (Album Version + Essential + Radio Edit) 11,240,284
2. Butterflies 2,062,900
3. Speechless 1,148,959
4. Break of Dawn 1,130,863
5. Unbreakable 1,070,162
6. Whatever Happens 822,919
7. Heaven Can Wait 673,860
8. Invincible 452,249
9. Heartbreaker 440,229
10. Cry 416,271
11. You Are My Life 396,789
12. 2000 Watts 379,353
13. The Lost Children 357,322
14. Don't Walk Away 312,708
15. Privacy 311,145
16. Threatened 302,182
And the biggest criminality of all: Threatened being not only the least spun on Invincible but being his second least spun of all only after Superfly Sister... One of his best songs IMO and definitely one of the best on this album.
The posthumus albums (since they are fresher, esp. Xscape, they automatically get relatively bigger number of spins as any new music tends to get more spins than old songs).
Michael
1. Hold My Hand 35,172,497
2. Hollywood Tonight 3,419,236
3. (I Like) The Way You Love Me 1,658,800
4. Behind The Mask 1,471,783
5. Much Too Soon 1,198,369
6. (I Can't Make It) Another Day 1,086,704
7. Best of Joy 979,367
The real bitter part which almost made me throw up about people's ears and tastes:
The fakes:
Monster 2,499,705
Keep Your Head Up 1,763,324
Breaking News 1,070,150
It's very sad to see that these crappy fake ones got more spins than Best of Joy, Much Too Soon, Behind The Mask... I'd like to think it's only due to the controversy and people getting curious of these songs when hearing about the controversy. If not, I get consoled by the fact that this is after all the generation which keeps the likes of Niki Minaj and Iggy Azalea high on the charts...
Xscape
1. Love Never Felt So Good (JT duet) 29,706,019
2. Love Never Felt So Good (solo) 27,013,749
3. A Place With No Name 7,820,601
4. Slave to the Rhythm 6,837,872
5. Chicago 4,826,541
6. Do You Know Where Your Children Are (remix and original combined - for some reason there is no seperate number for these) 4,397,617
7. Loving You 4,347,157
8. Blue Gangsta (remix and original combined - for some reason there is no seperate number for these) 4,178,144
9. Love Never Felt So Good (original) 3,349,064
10. Xscape 3,115,457
11. A Place with No Name (original) 2,031,099
12. Slave to the Rhythm (original) 1,854,061
13. Chicago (original) 1,832,656
14. Loving You (original) 1,745,587
15. Xscape (original) 1,431,127
I guess here the surprise is the original Xscape being last. The number of spins the solo and duet version LNFSG got is pretty similar though, JT version only has 2 million more spins.
This Is It
1. This Is It 6,433,174
2. This Is It - Orchestra Version 1,477,802
3. She's Out of My Life (demo) 1,179,548
4. Beat It (demo) 1,161,316
5. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (demo) 994,864
6. Planet Earth (poem) 755,567
A full list:
(I did not include the fake Cascio tracks.)
Billie Jean | 76540831 |
Love Never Felt So Good (JT duett + solo) | 56719768 |
Man In The Mirror (Album Version + 2003 Edit) | 52440870 |
Beat It | 48828468 |
Thriller (Album Version+Single Version+2003 Edit) | 40742020 |
Smooth Criminal | 39332963 |
Hold My Hand | 35172497 |
Black or White (Album + Single Version) | 32116558 |
The Way You Make Me Feel (Album Version + Single Version) | 27711620 |
They Don't Care About Us | 25382339 |
Dirty Diana | 21741285 |
PYT | 20940612 |
Bad | 20689927 |
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Album Version + 2003 Edit) | 17158579 |
Human Nature (Album Version + Essential) | 15535587 |
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin (Album Version+Single Version) | 14374620 |
Earth Song (Album Version + Radio Edit) | 13086471 |
Rock with You (Album Version + Single Version) | 12490703 |
You Are Not Alone (Album Version + Single Version + Radio Edit) | 12399681 |
Heal The World | 11460210 |
You Rock My World (Album Version + Essential + Radio Edit) | 11240284 |
I Just Can't Stop Loving You | 10728014 |
Will You Be There (Album Version + Single Version) | 8796648 |
Remember The Time | 8412512 |
A Place With No Name | 7820601 |
Slave to the Rhythm | 6837872 |
The Girl Is Mine | 6462160 |
This Is It | 6433174 |
Leave Me Alone | 5683117 |
Liberian Girl | 5265380 |
Off The Wall (Album Version + Essential) | 5045398 |
Chicago | 4826541 |
Jam | 4529555 |
Who Is It (Album Version + 7" Edit) | 4495151 |
Do You Know Where Your Children Are | 4397617 |
Loving You | 4347157 |
Another Part of Me | 4214445 |
Blue Gangsta | 4178144 |
She's Out of My Life | 4121632 |
Give In To Me | 3481223 |
Hollywood Tonight | 3419236 |
Love Never Felt So Good (original) | 3349064 |
In The Closet (Album Version + Single Version) | 3276067 |
Xscape | 3115457 |
Blood on the Dance Floor | 2804350 |
Scream | 2680106 |
Stranger in Moscow | 2650572 |
Speed Demon | 2471286 |
Workin' Day and Night | 2311405 |
Baby Be Mine | 2281033 |
Butterflies | 2062900 |
A Place with No Name (original) | 2031099 |
The Lady In My Life | 1907726 |
Come Together | 1868110 |
Slave to the Rhythm (original) | 1854061 |
Just Good Friends | 1847640 |
Chicago (original) | 1832656 |
Dangerous | 1821013 |
Loving You (original) | 1745587 |
(I Like) The Way You Love Me | 1658800 |
Ghosts | 1493972 |
This Is It - Orchestra Version | 1477802 |
Behind The Mask | 1471783 |
Xscape (original) | 1431127 |
Much Too Soon | 1198369 |
She's Out of My Life (demo) | 1179548 |
Beat It (demo) | 1161316 |
Speechless | 1148959 |
Break of Dawn | 1130863 |
Streetwalker | 1090383 |
(I Can't Make It) Another Day | 1086704 |
Unbreakable | 1070162 |
I Can't Help It | 1067219 |
Get on the Floor | 1023370 |
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (demo) | 994864 |
Best of Joy | 979367 |
Don't Be Messin' 'Round | 974261 |
Smile | 963782 |
I'm So Blue | 892681 |
Why You Wanna Trip On Me | 877254 |
Girlfriend | 830586 |
Whatever Happens | 822919 |
Al Capone | 820598 |
Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu | 808652 |
Someone In The Dark | 794985 |
Childhood | 782688 |
Abortion Papers | 772812 |
Planet Earth (poem) | 755567 |
Free | 737147 |
Fly Away | 730321 |
Gone Too Soon | 709525 |
Heaven Can Wait | 673860 |
Price of Fame | 671621 |
One More Chance | 661189 |
Burn This Disco Out | 641422 |
It's The Falling in Love | 633301 |
She Drives Me Wild | 631464 |
Keep The Faith | 615227 |
History | 575165 |
Can't Let Her Get Away | 560918 |
Tabloid Junkie | 551795 |
2 Bad | 530134 |
Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous | 521333 |
This Time Around | 509175 |
D.S. | 508044 |
Money | 496388 |
Little Susie | 453670 |
Invincible | 452249 |
Heartbreaker | 440229 |
Morphine | 418524 |
Cry | 416271 |
Billie Jean Home Demo 1981 | 409763 |
You Are My Life | 396789 |
2000 Watts | 379353 |
Is It Scary | 368236 |
The Lost Children | 357322 |
Don't Walk Away | 312708 |
Privacy | 311145 |
Carousel | 303359 |
Threatened | 302182 |
Superfly Sister | 235187 |
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