Album Tracks in order of streams.

[steady75 9,570]

Thought this might be interesting to look at. Done by hand so hopefully not too many errors :/

MADONNA  2001 remaster

1. Holiday - 90,206,549
2. Lucky Star - 26,277,004
3. Borderline - 20,113,741(IC combined)
4. Burning Up - 11,030,403 (Celebration combined)
5. Physical Attraction - 3,959,698 (YCD combined)
6. Everybody - 3,519,864
7. Think Of Me - 2,276,279
8. I Know It - 1,665,270

LIKE A VIRGIN 2001 remaster 

1. Like A Virgin - 233,164,328 (the original album version is the dominant streaming version. No IC or Celebration included The only non combined album track in her streaming top 10)
2. Material Girl - 48,427,096
3. Angel - 9,368,639
4. Dress You Up - 7,606,903
5. Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 3,225,001
6. Over & Over - 2,897,515
7. Stay - 1,661,391
8. Shoo-be-doo - 1,575,302
9. Pretender - 1,553,294

Bonus:

1. Crazy For You - 107,886,915 (IC + Celebration + STR boost) 
2. Into The Groove - 102,813,470 (Celebration only)
3. Gambler - 567,908

Surprised Dress You Up had less streams than Angel but I suppose people use the Celebration version

TRUE BLUE 2001 remaster

1. La Isla Bonita - 297,490,637 (Celebration boost)
2. Papa Don't Preach - 109,242,120 (Celebration boost)
3. Live To Tell - 47,171,230 (Celebration, STR & IC boost)
4. True Blue - 42,143,757
5. Open Your Heart - 15,009,678
6. Where's The Party - 3,766,852
7. White Heat - 2,981,689
8. Jimmy Jimmy - 2,341,194
9. Love Makes The World Go Round - 2,083,554

True Blue the singles streaming power without its appearance on any compilation is really impressive. A true titan in her discography. Just behind Open Your Heart even if you combine TB / IC / Celebration and the album version and not far behind Live To Tell which has appeared on 4 Madonna albums (TB, STR, IC & Celebration).

 

WHO"S THAT GIRL

1. Who's That Girl - 29,488,976 (Celebration boost)
2. Causing A Commotion - 7,087,242
3. The Look Of Love - 1,523,515
4. Can't Stop - 664,049

Bonus : Spotlight - 1,371,872

 

LIKE A PRAYER

1. Like A Prayer - 90.835,688
2. Cherish - 11,984.794
3. Express Yourself - 11,097,461
4. Dear Jessie - 5,4566,777
5. Spanish Eyes - 4,816,772
6. Oh Father - 4,425,434
7. Til Death Do Us Part - 2,474,228
8. Keep It Together - 2.270,156
9. Promise To Try - 1,987,364
10. Love Song - 1,793,196
11. Act Of Contrition - 1,000,506

Bonus:

1. Supernatural - 499,440

Spanish Eyes and Dear Jessie being higher than Oh Father and Keep It Together is a shocker

 

I'M BREATHLESS

1. Vogue - 23.035,863
2. Hanky Panky - 3,424,952
3. Something To Remember - 1.585,054 (STR combined)
4. Sooner Or Later - 1,519,750
5. He's A Man - 674,035
6. I'm Going Bananas - 631,172
7. More - 588,833
8. Back In Business - 597,001
9. Now I'm Following You 1 - 567,613
10. What Can You Lose - 518,682
11. Cry Baby - 481,932
12. Now I'm Following You 2 - 428,234

Bonus:

1. Justify My Love - 22.011,640
2. Rescue Me - 2,913,591

EROTICA 

1. Rain - 18,631,465 (STR boost)
2. Deeper & Deeper - 9,723,901
3. Erotica - 8,438,939
4. Fever - 4,681,379
5. Bad Girl - 4,173,526
6. Bye Bye Baby - 2,506,900
7. Where Life Begins - 2,111,141
8. Waiting - 2,224,186
9. Thief Of Hearts - 2,023,184
10. Why Is It So Hard - 1,523,391
11. Words - 1,459,400
12. Secret Garden - 1,416,001
13. In This Life - 1,158,664
14. Did You Do It - 574,644

 

 

BEDTIME STORY

1. Take A Bow - 49,318,288 (Celebration @ STR boost)
2. Secret - 17,457,926
3. Human Nature - 8.714,790
4. Bedtime Story - 3,718,547
5. Forbidden Love - 2,964,253 (STR Boost)
6. Survival - 2,156,051
7. Inside Of Me - 2,102,546
8. Love Tried To Welcome Me - 1,781,682
9. I'd Rather Be Your Lover - 1,747,484
10. Sanctuary - 1,673,043
11. Don't Stop - 1,668,559

Kind of crazy that Don't Stop was being considered a single really when it's obviously the least popular song on the album. 

 

SOMETHING TO EVITA

1. Ill Remember - 15,303,894
2. You'll See - 13,144,560
3. This Used To Be My Playground - 10,533,568
4. I Want You - 4,194,475
5. Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 1,683,030 (non combined with LAV)
6. One More Chance - 1,514,054
7. Oh Father - 1,113,848 (non combined with LAP)

 

1. Don't Cry For Me Argentina - 25,621,340
2. You Must Love Me - 4,304,081
3. Another Suitcase In Another Hall - 3,207,015
4. Kinder Beunos Aires - 2,825,669
5.  I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - 2,335,668

 

RAY OF LIGHT

1. Frozen - 70,330,737
2. Ray Of Light - 44,660,158
3. The Power Of Goodbye - 41,304,921 (GHV2 Combined)
4. Nothing Really Matters - 11,551,330
5. Drowned World - 9,415,646 (GHV2 Combined)
6. Swim - 5,046,404
7. Sky Fits Heaven - 4,757,279
8. To Have And Not To Hold - 4,598,050
9. Skin - 4,467,850
10. Shanti / Ashtangi - 4,330,655
11. Little Star - 3,445,685
12. Candy Perfume Girl - 3,404,512
13. Mer Girl - 2,516,359

Bonus:

1. Beautiful Stranger - 23,804,864 (Austin Powers ST + Celebration Combined)
2. Has To Be - 348, 261 (ROL EP)

 

MUSIC

1. Music - 69,546,337 (Celebration Combined)
2. American Pie - 49,199,953
3. Don't Tell Me - 27,118,143
4. What It Feels Like For A Wench - 9,699,530
5. Paradise Not For Me - 3,398,704 (Mirwais Production Combined)
6. Impressive Instant - 3,331,482
7. Amazing - 3,072,627
8. I Deserve It - 2,819,698
9. Nobody's Perfect - 2,672,351
10. Gone - 2,325,653
11. Runaway Lover - 2,059,509

Bonus:

1. Time Stood Still - 909,327 amazing for a lost soundtrack song

American Pie is another titan of hers. Doesn't appear on any collection and I severely doubt The Next Best Thing soundtrack is providing the numbers.

 

AMERICAN LIFE

1. Die Another Day - 37,340,606 (Celebration Boost + DAD soundtrack Combined)
2. Hollywood - 19,701,775 (Celebration Combined)
3. American Life - 7,712,288
4. Love Profusion - 7,375,361
5. Nothing Fails - 4,038,651
6. Nobody Knows Me - 2,433,433
7. I'm So Stupid - 2,291,792
8. X-static Process - 1,991,589
9. Intervention - 1,972, 478
10. Mother & Father - 1,920,593
11. Easy Ride - 1,704,612

Bonus:

1. Me Against The Music - 56,333,047 (the feat trend begins)
2. Like A Virgin / Hollywood (Xtina, Brit, Missy) - 3,965,563
3. Into The Hollywood Groove (Missy) - 977,423
4. Your Honesty - 360,162

Seems like everybody switched the record off after Nothing Fails on this one. I don't have much love for Easy Ride but it seems like such a fan favourite I thought it would have done better. 

 

CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR

1. Hung Up - 337,447,535 (Celebration Combined)
2. Sorry - 52,117,522
3. Jump - 36,388,597
4. Get Together - 23,132,349
5. Forbidden Love - 10,027,434
6. Future Lovers - 8,309,362
7. Isaac - 7,255,598
8. I Love NY - 6,824,668
9. Let It Will Be - 6,206,833
10. How High - 5,884,349
11. Like It Or Not - 5,101,254
12. Push - 5,084,621

Bonus: 

1. Hey You - 618,365

Surprised at Jump having so many more streams than Get Together as I really thought Get Together was considered one of her modern "ignored by her" classics. 

 

HARD CANDY

1. 4 Minutes - 43,064,617
2. Give It 2 Me - 41,713,790
3. Miles Away - 11,565,646
4. Beat Goes On - 6,092,148
5. She's Not Me - 5,120,884
6. Candy Shop - 4,552,810
7. Heartbeat - 3,584,466
8. Devil Wouldn't Recognise You - 3,013,175
9. Dance 2nigh - 2,308,165
10. Incredible - 1,912,682
11. Spanish Lesson - 1,657,866
12. Voices - 1,593,092
13. Ring My Bell - 865,296

Bonus:

1. Celebration - 34,241,695
2. Revolver - 9,701,826
3. It's So Cool - 592,212

Her first messy era. Miles Away release bungled and the brilliant Kanye track being left to flounder on the album. Secretly love that Candy Shop has such underwhelming streams even after she's pushed it on tour after tour after tour (her most performed live track ever?). Proof that Warner were right all along really.

MDNA

1. Girl Gone Wild - 46,653,404
2. GMAYL - 34,679,332
3. Masterpiece - 8,505,803 (W.E OST combined)
4. Gang Bang - 6,358,997
5. Turn Up The Radio - 5,712,150
6. Bday Song - 5,252,235 (WTF!!!)
7. I Don't Give A - 4,113,299
8. I'm Addicted - 4,065,845
9. Lovspent - 2,891,297
10. Some Girls - 2,713,779
11. Beautiful Killer - 2,650,053
12. Superstar - 2,435,512
13. I'm A Sinner - 2,247,411
14. Falling Free - 2,152,161
15. I Fucked Up - 1,569,293
16. Best Friend - 1,523,863

Bday Song and I Don't Give A showing the power of a feature I guess. The era where taste seemed to die for me and her first steaming released album era. We're into Maddona picking her own singles now and after the Justin success we move into features territory and you can see they really bolster the weaker songs. BDAY songs streams are a shocker to me. LoveSpent and I'm A Sinners low numbers were a bit of a surprise. In fact Masterpiece and Gang Bang aside Orbits songs really didn't seem to work any magic with the GP as all the rest of his contributions sit in the bottom half of the albums streaming numbers. Even his top streamed tracks only have about 1/6th of the top two streamed tracks. That's sad huh?

There's also a mad anomaly on the W.E. soundtrack. Masterpiece is only the third most streamed song. Charms and Dance For Me Wallis the instrumentals by Abel Korzeniowski have 11,874,069 and 29,278,973 streams respectively. Don't know what's going on there. 

 

REBEL HEART

1. Bitch I'm Madonna (Nicki)- 91,410,850
2. Ghosttown - 36,378,982
3. Living For Love - 34,998,212
4. Devil Pray - 18,142,000
5. Unapologetic Bitch - 16,657,315
6. Joan Of Arc - 11,099,255
7. Iconic (Chance & Mike)- 9,783,500
8. illuminati - 7,435,278
9. Hold Tight - 6,716,455
10. Holy Water - 5,523,353
11. Rebel Heart - 5,350,955
12. Heartbreak City - 5,046,430
13. Inside Out - 4,604,608
14. Body Shop - 4,249,264
15. Wash All Over Me - 4,194,899
16. S.E.X - 3,713,561
17. Messiah - 2,963,863
18. Veni Vidi Vici (Nas) - 2,690,128
19. Best Night - 2,612,871
20. Addicted - 930, 262
21. Beautiful Scars - 904,396
22. Borrowed Time - 547,148
23. Graffiti Heart - 453,241
24. Rebel Heart Avicci version in my iTunes - 1,656,989,091

What a project. I think as time goes on this feels like such a classic Madonna era besides all the leaks drama (which probably added to it, I personally loved the three stage drop of sections of songs and I'll never forgive that twerp who leaked them for fucking top Rebel heart as a single for us all. Her best in years.

 

MADAME X

1. Medellin (Maulma)- 68,5556,113
2. Faz Gostoso (Anitta)- 43,677,564
3. Crave (Swae Lee) - 14,678,815
4. Future (Quavo)- 13,451,337
5. God Control - 11,128,966
6. Bitch I'm Loca (Maluma) - 9,011,664
7. Dark Ballet - 8,903,218
8. Crazy - 8,496,688
9. I Rise - 8,063,749
10. IDSIF - 6,313,661
11. Batuka - 5,619,204
12. Come Alive - 5,305,729
13. Killers Who Are Partying - 5,224,976
14. Looking For Mercy - 4,772,894
15. Extreme Occident - 3,735,814
16. Back That Up To The Beat - 222,811
17. Ciao Bella - 124,346
18. Funana - 73,666

And as her previous three eras leaned into we are well into the age of the features. All the songs on the top 6 are duets or features with the acceptation of the exquisite God Control which goes down as another Avicii Heart in terms of botched singles in the later part of Madonnas career.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

SUMMARY

I suppose one of the things I learned is just how much of a go to Celebration (double disc version) is for her catalogue. Immaculate collection pales next to it really. This is Madonna Spotify playlist also features none of her singles from Immaculate Collection tracks, they're Celebration versions or the original album versions, which obviously weighs things out of Immaculates favour. Few of Immaculates tracks are combined too. Just (Crazy For You, Live To Tell, Justify My Love, Borderline and that odd Lucky Star 12" mix). I suppose when we get the next greatest hits the Celebration version on these list will be changed for the new GH and the plays combined, thus pushing that compilation as the definitive. 

Some other cute anomalies are the Confession Tour version of Erotica -5,054,012 is nearly as popular as the Celebration version has about 2/3rds off the original album mix. In fact the Confessions Live album has really healthy streams, easily her biggest streaming Live album which is crazy as it's a pre streaming release. Vogue  MDNA live 6,722,766-  is her most streamed live track and has done the best numbers on the Sticky & Sweet Tour live album too. 

The drop off after the lead and second singles is real in her last four albums. Bitch Im Madonna being the outlier here. 

[MikeyK 687]

Who’d have thought MIA’s stans would be more supportive than the barbz…

Immaculate unfortunately did seem to fall out of favor in the streaming era after holding its own through the digital sales era. That’s why I think it’s nice they released that remastered for atmos version to sort of renew interest. Even if it won’t matter much on spotify.

It’s interesting how things vary from spotify to apple. On 🍎 it’s primarily the original album versions of her classics that get the highest streams. The power of playlisting I guess. Even TIC tracks stream better than their Celebration counterparts, which seem to get very little.

[steady75 9,570]

Spotifys own This Is.. has got to be the kingmaker for every artist. It’s always the go to for me when I search someone. 

[Aiwa08 16,217]

3 hours ago, steady75 said:

Thought this might be interesting to look at. Done by hand so hopefully not too many errors :/

 

LIKE A PRAYER

1. Like A Prayer - 90.835,688
2. Cherish - 11,984.794
3. Express Yourself - 11,097,461

It's strange. Cherish was a little flop, and EY a hit. I don't understand these numbers...

[steady75 9,570]

I think the Immaculate version of EY became the definitive

[Donna 16,448]

Thank you @steady75 for posting this.  I never got the hate for Celebration. While I agree it has it's omissions and a few errors (which have been corrected and hardly detected by anyone but the hardcore fans), it's the most retrospective Greatest Hits album yet from Madonna.  While nothing will top Immaculate Collection (at the time), more and more people are looking at her full catalog beyond 1990.  Celebration is a great representation of her classics.  Fans can be picky and critical, but the general public hasn't the same issues. They don't know the difference between all the mixes and edits over the years. They just are looking for the song and enjoying it.  They aren't thinking, "wait, this is missing 2 seconds of the drum beat at the beginning of a song".  LOL!  Greatest Hits are usually aimed at the general public as the hardcore fans tend to own everything in between. 

Bitch, I'm Madonna is a huge song for Madonna despite the hate by some fans.  It comes nowhere close to her classic hits, but it fits in there with them.  If anything, it's a nod to whom she is as an artist and how she's able to take advantage of a current sound and still make noise.

The problem with your initial post is that many people like me are going to want you to keep this up to date.  Are you up for the challenge?

[Aiwa08 16,217]

7 minutes ago, steady75 said:

I think the Immaculate version of EY became the definitive

Ah, that makes sense.

[AModSquad 514]

Wow, thanks for taking the time to do this - Appreciate all your efforts @steady75

Open Your Heart, while one of her all time best tracks has really low streams when compared to its respective album.

question, for tracks that are available on numerous different albums, tracks like Express Yourself, the number you are showing is just the number of streams from that specific album? If so, id be interested in seeing the Total for each track no matter where that stream came from.

 

 

[MikeyK 687]

1 hour ago, Aiwa08 said:

It's strange. Cherish was a little flop, and EY a hit. I don't understand these numbers...

I’d say they performed about the same in most major markets. EY is just more remembered. The Born This Way situation helped that a bit.

But he’s right, the IC mix of EY ctrl + H replaced the album version in the public consciousness, to the point I think some people don’t know the album version even exists. For a while I thought the same was going to happen w/LAP as the IC mix seemed to get all the recurrent airplay in the 90s-00s. I guess including the album version on Celebration saved it.

[dylanlioncourt 5,780]

Wow, thank you for this. It's interesting to see which songs are streamed the most and sad to see some with low streams as well.

[dankpepe 1,042]

If she based the Celebration tour setlist around most streamed that would be an awful setlist lol

Looks like the top 30 songs are (in chronological order): Holiday, Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Crazy for You, Into the Groove, La Isla Bonita, Papa Don't Preach, Live to Tell, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Take a Bow, Frozen, Ray of Light, The Power of Goodbye, Music, American Pie, Die Another Day, Hung Up, Sorry, Jump, 4 Minutes, Give It 2 Me, Girl Gone Wild, Gimme All Your Luvin, Celebration, Bitch I'm Madonna, Ghosttown, Living for Love, Medellin, Faz Gostozo

[EgoRod 5,451]

"What It Feels Like For A Wench"

[EgoRod 5,451]

I think  the success of Birthday song has to do with the theme and the title.

Xmas and Birthday songs are played on special occasions. Like Marilyn's 'Happy Birthday' . People search for 'Birthday song' and that comes up first.

I wonder what's Santa baby's numbers.

 

[Prayer 14,372]

What a great work compiling all those figures, congrats and thank you @steady75

In the end "Celebration" is the most loved album by the general public at least on Spotify, yes. Almost all the "Celebration" versions or tracks merged with the album versions are the most listened to ones, except for "Like A Virgin", maybe - the album version is the one. But in general, all the songs included on "Celebration" benefit from it and the excluded ones are usually much lower in streams.

As @tscottsaid, general public couldn't give a f**k about the three first beats missing on "Dress You Up", or the remastering, or "Express Yourself" being a mix of three different remixes, etc. They just want to bop to the songs. And "Celebration" is perfect for that.

I just wish it was with a much better compilation. "Immaculate" can't be, obviously, cause that journey ends in 1990. "GHV2" served its purpose in 2001-2002 and it's completely forgotten now. But I wouldn't mind at all a revised digital "Celebration" in time for the tour with fixed errors and maybe some additional tracks.

I still think that bad sound can put people off of certain tracks, even if they don't care about sound or are not conscious about it. But you simply don't get the desire to listen to that track often or again if the experience is bad. It's not the same not liking a song as not enjoying the version you're presented with. Take "Music" as an example. The "Celebration" version is glitchy. It's not a good listening experience. And at 69M but being one of her biggest songs, it should be more, I think, with a proper version/remaster.

Same for the "Like A Virgin" album. It's quiet and flat on the digital release, but it was one of her biggest. A good remastered version could make some people appreciate it more - or care about it.

For some reason, "GMAYL" and "Girl Gone Wild" numbers always surprise me. They're not megahits but quite respectable figures for a 2012 release (streaming really started to took over in 2014-2015). Shows the potential there for commercial success with those singles with proper promo and push, something that Warner would have done.

"Bitch I'm Madonna" was truly the lost megahit of the 10s. Imagine that as the 1st single. And of course "Faz Gostoso" in Latin countries.

"Birthday Song" is purely because of the title, as @EgoRodpointed out.

[Andreo 5,323]

11 hours ago, steady75 said:

Bday Song - 5,252,235 (WTF!!!)

AYO?! 💀😭

[Andreo 5,323]

11 hours ago, steady75 said:

Faz Gostoso (Anitta)- 43,677,564

Tell me you're a lost hit without telling me you're a lost hit. Seriously. 

[A. A. Aardvark 4,842]

"Kind of crazy that Don't Stop was being considered a single really when it's obviously the least popular song on the album."

obviously
 

 

[steady75 9,570]

I won’t be updating the streams numbers in real time sadly. I thought part of the beauty of it would be to keep a snap shot of her numbers at this point in time. In another ten years after the Movie, another few albums, some features and some new retrospective collections we can look back again and see how the dial has changed on certain songs.

 

[steady75 9,570]

7 hours ago, dankpepe said:

If she based the Celebration tour setlist around most streamed that would be an awful setlist lol

Looks like the top 30 songs are (in chronological order): Holiday, Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Crazy for You, Into the Groove, La Isla Bonita, Papa Don't Preach, Live to Tell, True Blue, Like a Prayer, Take a Bow, Frozen, Ray of Light, The Power of Goodbye, Music, American Pie, Die Another Day, Hung Up, Sorry, Jump, 4 Minutes, Give It 2 Me, Girl Gone Wild, Gimme All Your Luvin, Celebration, Bitch I'm Madonna, Ghosttown, Living for Love, Medellin, Faz Gostozo

They’re not cumulative tho. I’ve used the album version totals and only the combined as listed where no other info is available. 

The real gaggy list would be for someone who has more time than sense to add up the Spotify streams for every version of each song. All remixes, album and live versions of each song. That’s probably the true test of which song is most popular. (Or most over represented)

and as others had said Spotify isn’t the whole metric. Apple Music, Amazon and You Tube etc has billions of streams and we’ll never be able to account for the sales of these singles and the endless amount we’ve played our local files etc but it’s still a cute exercise to look at for a snapshot of now. 

[Ziploc 2,566]

31 minutes ago, steady75 said:

Kinder Beunos Aires - 2,825,669

What's new? 

[steady75 9,570]

y'all snoopsies finding my lolz

I live

 

[Sillynate 124]

5,252,234 of birthday song’s streams are from me. I absolutely love that song. It’s got that 70’s soft rock vibe that Midge hasn’t done before or since (link me if she has, even if it’s a remix)

It’s ironic that two political powerhouses in music made a song about partying instead of human rights or something. My only issue is that it doesn’t fit the sound of MDNA at all. Definitely fits better on Rebel Heart 

[Pootz333 2,691]

 True Blue said

American Pie has aged like fine wine. Song and video. 

I thought Vogue would be a lot higher.