The Obscurity of Prince
The Labyrinth of Obscurity — Deconstructing “Least Listened To” in Prince’s Kingdom
The question, “What is Prince’s least listened to song?” appears simple, a straightforward request for a data point from a legendary career. Yet, for an artist as boundlessly prolific, defiantly experimental, and systematically industry-disrupting as Prince Rogers Nelson, the concept of “least listened to” is not a singular destination but a labyrinthine journey. The answer is not a title to be found at the bottom of a chart; it is a complex narrative woven from decades of artistic rebellion, commercial gambles, and pioneering forays into digital distribution. This report posits that finding Prince’s most obscure track is not a treasure hunt for one song but an archaeological dig into the very fabric of his career—an exploration of an artist who actively manipulated the levers of access, audience, and commercialism. The true answer is not a song title; it is a story about Prince’s revolutionary relationship with the music industry and his devoted global fanbase.
To navigate this labyrinth, this investigation will define and explore four distinct metrics of “unheard,” each representing a valid lens through which to measure musical obscurity in the context of Prince’s unique catalog:
- Commercial Invisibility: This metric focuses on songs from officially released albums that registered verifiably low sales figures and achieved zero chart presence. These are the ghosts of the traditional music industry model, records that were manufactured, shipped, and stocked, but ultimately ignored by the record-buying public.
- The Streaming Void: In the modern era, listenership is quantified by streams. This metric examines songs with the lowest play counts on platforms like Spotify. However, this data is profoundly complicated by Prince’s own tumultuous history with these services, requiring careful contextualization to yield meaningful conclusions.
- The Covermount Paradox: This metric analyzes a uniquely Prince-an phenomenon—songs distributed to millions of people as free covermounts with European newspapers. This strategy created a paradox of mass physical distribution coupled with potential mass indifference, resulting in a unique form of cultural invisibility.
- The Digital Sanctum: Representing the deepest and most intentional form of obscurity, this metric investigates songs released exclusively to a small, dedicated, and paying fanbase through Prince’s groundbreaking NPG Music Club in the early 2000s. These tracks were firewalled from the general public by design.
It is essential to first draw a clear line between what is merely “underrated” and what is genuinely “obscure.” Numerous discussions and articles highlight tracks that are considered “overlooked” or “underrated” by fans and critics.1 Songs like the searing gospel of “Anna Stesia” from the platinum-selling
Lovesexy, the intricate narrative of “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker,” or the complex emotional landscape of “Strange Relationship,” both from the monumental double album Sign O’ the Times, are frequently mentioned.1 While these are indeed deep cuts that showcase Prince’s genius beyond his radio hits, they are far from unheard. They exist on iconic, multi-million-selling albums that are cornerstones of popular music history. They are beloved by a substantial audience of dedicated fans and critically lauded. This report will respectfully set these well-known deep cuts aside to focus on a more rigorous, data-supported definition of obscurity—the songs that, for various reasons, truly fell through the cracks of public consciousness.
Part I: The Commercial Abyss — Songs from the Least Successful and Most Unconventional Releases
The most traditional way to measure a song’s reach is through the commercial performance of its parent album. In Prince’s vast discography, which includes dozens of top-10 albums and sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide 5, a few releases stand out for their stark lack of commercial impact. These albums, and the songs they contain, represent the first category of candidates for the “least listened to” title. This analysis extends beyond simple sales figures to include Prince’s disruptive distribution models, which often guaranteed commercial invisibility by design.
Section 1.1: Case Study — The Sound of Silence: The N.E.W.S. Album (2003)
In 2003, at a time when the music industry was grappling with the digital revolution, Prince released what is arguably his most commercially inaccessible and, consequently, his lowest-selling studio album: N.E.W.S..7 The album stands as the documented commercial nadir of his career, with reported sales of a mere 30,000 copies worldwide.7 This stark figure, a microscopic fraction of the sales of albums like
Purple Rain (over 21 million worldwide) or even more modest hits like Musicology (over 2 million worldwide) 7, immediately establishes the four tracks on
N.E.W.S. as primary contenders for the least-heard songs in his commercially released catalog.
The album’s obscurity is not merely a matter of poor sales; it is deeply rooted in its artistic content. N.E.W.S. consists of four instrumental jazz-funk compositions, each precisely 14 minutes long, titled “North,” “East,” “West,” and “South”.8 These sprawling, atmospheric pieces are a world away from the tightly structured, hook-laden pop, funk, and rock that made Prince a global superstar. The music is challenging, meditative, and built for deep listening, not for radio airplay or casual consumption. It can be seen as a modern incarnation of his earlier instrumental side project, Madhouse, but released under his own name, a decision that ensured it would be judged against his pop legacy.8
The combination of its niche genre and its poor commercial performance creates a powerful formula for low listenership. Any of the four tracks from N.E.W.S. could plausibly be the least-heard song from any of Prince’s physically released, commercially available studio albums. The album’s journey presents a fascinating contradiction: despite its commercial failure, it garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Album.8 This acknowledgment from the Recording Academy highlights a critical divergence—the album was recognized for its musical merit by industry peers, yet it remained almost completely invisible to the public.
This commercial outcome was not an unforeseen failure but a predictable, and likely intentional, result of its creation. A global icon does not release a 60-minute album of instrumental jazz expecting it to compete with the likes of “Little Red Corvette.” The release of N.E.W.S. was an artistic statement, a creative indulgence from an artist who had earned the freedom to follow his muse wherever it led, regardless of commercial potential. By this stage in his career, Prince was often unconcerned with, and at times actively hostile toward, the demands of the mainstream music market. The profound obscurity of “North,” “East,” “West,” and “South” is therefore not accidental; it is a direct and deliberate consequence of the album’s conception, making them perfect examples of songs that are unheard because they were never truly meant for a mass audience.
Section 1.2: Case Study — The Paradox of Ubiquity: The Covermount Releases
While N.E.W.S. represents obscurity through commercial failure, Prince pioneered another, more paradoxical path to low listenership: mass distribution. In the late 2000s, he executed a revolutionary strategy, giving away entire new albums as free “covermounts” with European newspapers. This approach was used for Planet Earth in 2007, distributed with the UK’s The Mail on Sunday 10, and for
20Ten in 2010, given away with the Daily Mirror in the UK, Courrier International in France, and other publications across Europe.14
On the surface, this method seems the opposite of obscure. The numbers were staggering: over 2.5 million copies of 20Ten were distributed in the UK alone through the Daily Mirror deal.14 The promotion led to significant circulation spikes for the newspapers involved; the
Daily Mirror‘s sales increased by 334,000 copies on the day of the giveaway, while The Mail on Sunday‘s circulation for the Planet Earth release rose by 600,000.13 However, this ubiquity was a Trojan horse. By bypassing traditional retail channels, Prince ensured the albums were ineligible for official music charts, effectively erasing them from the primary record of popular music culture.15 Furthermore, this strategy fragmented the global audience.
20Ten, for instance, was never commercially released in the United States, one of the world’s largest music markets, leaving American fans to seek out expensive imports or illegal downloads.16
This created a unique dynamic where physical possession of an album did not equate to active listenership. For many of the millions who purchased the newspaper, the free CD was a secondary incentive, a curiosity that may have been played once, if at all, before being discarded with the paper itself. Consequently, any non-single track from these albums becomes a strong candidate for being “least listened to” on a mass-produced record. Songs from Planet Earth like the eco-conscious title track or the spiritually-tinged “Lion of Judah” 13, and tracks from
20Ten such as the synth-heavy “Beginning Endlessly” 1 or the funk workout “Sticky Like Glue” 19, exist in a strange limbo. They are simultaneously some of Prince’s most widely distributed and most culturally invisible songs.
Prince’s own words reveal the motivation behind this seemingly counterintuitive strategy. He told the Daily Mirror, “It’s the best way to go. No charts, no internet piracy and no stress”.14 This was not merely a novel distribution method; it was a calculated act of defiance against the music industry. By circumventing the entire apparatus of retail, marketing, and chart certification, he was making a powerful statement about artistic control and the value of his work. He was weaponizing distribution to reclaim his independence. The result was a new category of obscurity: songs that were physically present in millions of homes but culturally absent from the mainstream conversation, a stark contrast to a track from a poor-selling but traditionally released album like his 1978 debut,
For You.21 The unheard nature of these covermount tracks is a direct consequence of Prince’s radical vision for an alternative music economy.
Part II: The Digital Echo — Analyzing Modern Streaming Data
In the 21st century, the primary metric of listenership has shifted from physical sales to digital streams. An analysis of data from platforms like Spotify would seem to offer a direct, quantitative answer to the question of Prince’s least-heard song. However, the data is fraught with complications rooted in Prince’s complex and often adversarial relationship with the very concept of music streaming, making a simple reading of the numbers deeply misleading without critical context.
Section 2.1: The Spotify Anomaly
Prince was famously skeptical of the streaming model, viewing it as a system that devalued music and unfairly compensated artists. His most dramatic move came in the summer of 2015, when he ordered his publishers to pull his entire catalog from all streaming services except for the artist-centric platform Tidal.23 His music only returned to major platforms like Spotify and Apple Music more broadly in February 2017, nearly a year after his death.
This historical context is crucial and creates a significant data skew. While his 1980s contemporaries like Michael Jackson and Madonna had their catalogs available for the better part of a decade, benefiting from years of passive discovery, playlist inclusion, and algorithmic recommendations that steadily built up billions of plays, Prince’s catalog was largely absent during this formative period of streaming growth. Consequently, his current Spotify numbers are not a reflection of his all-time popularity or listenership. Instead, they represent a much shorter window of post-2016 active listening by fans who specifically seek out his music. This fundamental difference makes a direct comparison of his streaming figures to those of his peers an apples-to-oranges fallacy and complicates the interpretation of what “low streams” truly means for his work.26
This issue is further compounded by platform-specific technical quirks. The 1988 album Lovesexy, for example, was conceived and released on CD as a single, continuous track to enforce a sequential listening experience. On some streaming services, the album is still indexed this way, as one long 45-minute file.27 This makes it impossible for the platform to log individual plays for the album’s constituent songs, including the hit single “Alphabet St.” and fan-favorite tracks like “Anna Stesia” and “Dance On.” As a result, the official stream counts for these songs are artificially depressed or non-existent on certain platforms, making them appear far less popular than they actually are and further muddying the data pool.26 Any analysis of Prince’s least-streamed songs must therefore proceed with extreme caution, treating the numbers not as absolute truth but as clues within a larger, more complex puzzle.
Section 2.2: The Bottom of the Stream
Despite the inherent flaws in the data, examining the lowest tiers of Prince’s Spotify streams provides a fascinating, if imperfect, snapshot of what the modern digital audience overlooks. These are the tracks that are not being actively sought out, nor are they being served up by the platform’s discovery algorithms. The list of least-streamed songs is populated by a specific cross-section of his catalog: deep cuts from his 21st-century albums, tracks from his unconventional digital-only compilations, and songs hampered by the technical issues previously discussed.
The following table presents a selection of Prince’s officially released songs that exhibit exceptionally low streaming numbers relative to the rest of his catalog. This list is representative, constructed from available data and fan community discussions, and illustrates the types of songs that fall into the modern streaming void.26
| Song Title | Album | Year | Notes on Obscurity |
| “West” | N.E.W.S. | 2003 | From his documented worst-selling commercial album; a 14-minute instrumental. |
| “South” | N.E.W.S. | 2003 | From his documented worst-selling commercial album; a 14-minute instrumental. |
| “North” | N.E.W.S. | 2003 | From his documented worst-selling commercial album; a 14-minute instrumental. |
| “East” | N.E.W.S. | 2003 | From his documented worst-selling commercial album; a 14-minute instrumental. |
| “Dance On” | Lovesexy | 1988 | From an album often indexed as a single track, artificially depressing streams.26 |
| “Eye No” | Lovesexy | 1988 | From an album often indexed as a single track, artificially depressing streams.26 |
| “Beginning Endlessly” | 20Ten | 2010 | From a covermount album never commercially released in the US.1 |
| “Lion of Judah” | Planet Earth | 2007 | Deep cut from a covermount album given away for free in the UK.13 |
| “Vavoom” | The Chocolate Invasion | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “Silicon” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “S&M Groove” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “Y Should Eye Do That…” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “Hypnoparadise” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.27 |
| “The Daisy Chain” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | Originally a limited CD single in 2001 before this digital compilation.1 |
| “Underneath the Cream” | The Chocolate Invasion | 2004 | Originally a limited CD single in 2001 before this digital compilation.1 |
| “My Medallion” | NPG Music Club | 2001 | An NPGMC track that was nearly on The Chocolate Invasion but was swapped out.30 |
| “Van Gogh” | NPG Music Club | 2001 | An NPGMC track from 2001 never compiled on a subsequent album.29 |
| “Props N’ Pounds” | The Slaughterhouse | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “Gamillah” | The Chocolate Invasion | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
| “Judas Smile” | The Chocolate Invasion | 2004 | From a digital-only compilation of NPG Music Club tracks.29 |
An analysis of this data reveals clear patterns. The entire N.E.W.S. album languishes at the bottom, its commercial failure translating directly into digital neglect. The technical issues surrounding Lovesexy are evident, with tracks like “Dance On” appearing far less popular than their historical status would suggest. Most tellingly, a significant portion of the least-streamed material comes from the albums released in the 21st century, particularly the digital compilations sourced from the NPG Music Club, such as The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse. Tracks like “Vavoom” and “Silicon” were born in relative obscurity and have remained there in the streaming age. This demonstrates that the digital footprint of these songs largely mirrors their original, limited reach, confirming that the deepest levels of obscurity are found in Prince’s most unconventional and fan-facing projects.
Part III: The Inner Sanctum — The NPG Music Club Exclusives (2001-2005)
To locate the songs that are truly the “least listened to,” one must venture beyond the realms of commercial releases and mainstream streaming platforms. The most fertile ground for this investigation lies in the archives of the NPG Music Club, Prince’s pioneering online subscription service that operated from 2001 to 2006. This platform was a revolutionary, pre-Bandcamp, pre-Patreon experiment in a direct-to-fan economy. For a subscription fee, members gained access to a steady stream of new music, live recordings, and videos, effectively creating a parallel, “secret” catalog intended only for the ears of his most dedicated followers. The songs from this era are obscure by design, firewalled from the general public by a paywall and a distribution model that was years ahead of its time.
Section 3.1: The Digital Compilations: The Chocolate Invasion & The Slaughterhouse
In March 2004, Prince released two full-length digital albums through the NPG Music Club’s new “Musicology” download store: The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse.30 These were not traditional studio albums recorded as cohesive projects. Instead, they were compilations, collections of tracks that had been previously made available as individual MP3 downloads to club members between 2001 and 2003.30 Because they were released exclusively as digital downloads through his own service, they were not submitted for commercial charting and remain largely unknown to the wider public.32
This unique origin and distribution model makes their entire tracklists prime candidates for the least-listened-to songs in his official album canon. The Chocolate Invasion features tracks like the slinky “Vavoom,” the raw “Underneath the Cream,” and the politically charged “Judas Smile” (a retitled version of the NPGMC track “Judas Kiss”).29
The Slaughterhouse contains experimental funk and electronic pieces such as “Silicon,” the abrasive “S&M Groove,” and the quirky “Hypnoparadise”.27 While some of these tracks had an even earlier, hyper-limited release as CD singles sold only at concerts during the 2001 Hit N Run Tour (e.g., “Supercute,” “The Daisy Chain,” “Gamillah”), their inclusion on these digital-only albums represents their widest official distribution.30
The profound obscurity of these two albums is a direct and fascinating consequence of Prince’s artistic and business innovation. By creating a members-only digital sanctum, he bifurcated his own catalog. On one side were the mainstream releases through major labels, intended for a global audience. On the other was this parallel universe of music, created for and distributed directly to his inner circle of supporters. The low listenership of a song like “S&M Groove” or “Vavoom” is not a mark of failure but a testament to the success of this revolutionary model. They are “least listened to” by the general public precisely because they were intended for a small, specific, and highly engaged audience who were willing to follow Prince into the new frontier of digital music.
Section 3.2: Lost in the Wires — The True Digital Phantoms
While the tracks on The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse are undeniably obscure, the absolute deepest level of unheard material can be found by digging even further into the NPG Music Club’s release logs. A number of songs were made available to members during the club’s active years that were never subsequently compiled onto those 2004 albums or any other official release. These tracks are the true digital phantoms of Prince’s catalog. They existed, often for a limited time, as downloadable MP3 or WMA files, and then vanished from official availability, their listenership confined to the few thousand fans who happened to be paying subscribers at that exact moment.
These ephemeral releases represent the zenith of Prince’s direct-to-fan experimentation and, consequently, the nadir of public awareness. Detailed logs from fan archives and Prince scholarship sites reveal a trove of such material.29 For instance, in September 2001, premium members received a download of “Contest Song (Instrumental),” a track that has never resurfaced officially.33 The “NPG Ahdio Show 6” from July 2001 included a premium bonus track simply titled “Instrumental,” another one-off release lost to time.29 Other examples of these hyper-obscure tracks include the moody “Van Gogh,” released in July 2001, and the frenetic “Y Should Eye Do That When Eye Can Do This?,” released in June 2001 and later compiled on
The Slaughterhouse, but which existed for years as a standalone digital ghost.29
The following table identifies a selection of these hyper-obscure tracks, highlighting their fleeting existence and lack of subsequent official release. These songs are not just deep cuts; they are digital artifacts from a specific, revolutionary period in Prince’s career, making them the strongest possible candidates for his least-listened-to work.
| Track Title | Original Release Context | Release Date | Subsequent Availability |
| “Contest Song (Instrumental)” | NPGMC Premium Bonus Track | Sep. 2001 | None; never officially re-released.33 |
| “Instrumental” | NPGMC Premium Bonus Track (Ahdio Show 6) | Jul. 2001 | None; never officially re-released.29 |
| “Van Gogh” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 6) | Jul. 2001 | None; never officially re-released.29 |
| “Splash” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 1) | Feb. 2001 | Unreleased Revolution-era track; never officially re-released outside NPGMC.33 |
| “Habibi” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 3) | Apr. 2001 | Cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun”; never officially re-released.33 |
| “Madrid 2 Chicago” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 12) | Jan. 2002 | Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic outtake; never officially re-released.29 |
| “Funky Design” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 1) | Feb. 2001 | None; never officially re-released.33 |
| “Mad” | NPGMC Download (Ahdio Show 1) | Feb. 2001 | None; never officially re-released.33 |
| “Glass Cutter (Demo)” | NPGMC Download | Oct. 2004 | None; never officially re-released.33 |
| “Silver Tongue (Demo)” | NPGMC Download | Jul. 2004 | None; never officially re-released.33 |
The existence of these digital phantoms provides the definitive evidence for this report’s ultimate conclusion. They represent a level of obscurity that transcends low sales or low streams. Their listenership was not just small; it was finite, limited to a self-selecting group of subscribers over two decades ago. For all intents and purposes, songs like “Contest Song (Instrumental)” are ghosts in Prince’s digital machine, making them the most accurate and compelling answer to the question of his least-listened-to song.
Conclusion: A Shortlist for Obscurity
The search for Prince’s “least listened to song” does not yield a single, simple answer. Instead, it reveals the multifaceted nature of obscurity in the career of an artist who consistently redefined the relationship between creator, industry, and audience. The investigation across the four distinct metrics—commercial invisibility, the streaming void, the covermount paradox, and the digital sanctum—results not in one winner, but in a definitive shortlist of candidates, a “Mount Rushmore of Obscurity,” with each representing the pinnacle of unheard within its category.
- The Commercially Unheard: “West” (from N.E.W.S., 2003)
For a song released through traditional commercial channels on a physical studio album, “West”—or any of its three 14-minute instrumental siblings—is the clearest candidate. Born from the album with Prince’s lowest documented sales figures of just 30,000 units, its inherent inaccessibility and lack of promotion condemned it to commercial oblivion from the start.7 It represents the sound of a superstar choosing pure artistic expression over any semblance of market appeal. - The Mass-Distributed Ghost: “Beginning Endlessly” (from 20Ten, 2010)
This track perfectly embodies the paradox of being everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. As part of an album given away for free to over 2.5 million European newspaper readers but never commercially sold in the United States, “Beginning Endlessly” had one of the largest physical distributions of any Prince song in the 21st century.1 Yet, its unconventional release rendered it chart-ineligible and culturally invisible, a ghost in millions of households. - The Fan-Club Secret: “S&M Groove” (from The Slaughterhouse, 2004)
Representing the dozens of tracks firewalled from the public within the NPG Music Club, “S&M Groove” is a quintessential fan-club secret. Its listenership was intentionally limited to the small, paying subscriber base of Prince’s pioneering online service in the early 2000s.29 It is a song that is unknown not by accident, but by the very design of the revolutionary direct-to-fan model Prince was building. - The True Digital Phantom: “Contest Song (Instrumental)” (NPG Music Club, 2001)
This is the ultimate candidate and the most precise answer to the query. Released exclusively as a bonus download for premium NPG Music Club members in September 2001, this track was never compiled, re-released, or made available again through any official channel.33 Its existence was fleeting, its audience was minimal and finite, and its access was zero post-2001. It is a true digital ghost, a piece of music heard by a few thousand devotees and then effectively erased from the official record.
Ultimately, the quest to identify Prince’s least listened-to song reveals more than any single title ever could. It maps the contours of a uniquely defiant artistic journey. The obscurity of these tracks is not a sign of failure but a testament to Prince’s radical independence, his relentless innovation, and his unwavering commitment to making music on his own terms, for an audience he chose, through channels he built. The sound of silence in Prince’s catalog is, in its own way, as loud and revolutionary as his greatest hits.
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