Prince Dominates Lansing Single Sales Posthumously

"If it wasn't Prince, Lansing didn't really care last week," Dave Watson of Columbia Records captioned an email listing of the top selling songs in Lansing for the week ending April 23rd.

Among other artists, Watson represents Ruth B, who, up until last week's report, had been settled nicely in the #3 position for sales in Lansing with her song "Lost Boy" for more than a month.

This week, she's at #33.

Inside the Top 10, it's Prince songs exclusively.  Inside the Top 20, only five songs are from an artist other than Prince.  Inside the Top 100, nearly one half (45 songs) are by, or featuring, Prince.

So, which Prince songs are Lansing's favorite?

In rank order (the first number is the rank against other Prince songs, the second number is the rank on the sales chart):

1. 1. Purple Rain
2. 2. Little Red Corvette
3. 3. Let's Go Crazy
4. 4. 1999
5. 5. Kiss
6. 6. Raspberry Beret
7. 7. When Doves Cry (Prince & The Revolution)
8. 8. I Would Die 4 U
9. 9. When Doves Cry (Prince)
10. 10. I Wanna Be Your Lover
11. 11. Diamonds and Pearls
12. 12. Darling Nikki
13. 13. U Got The Look
14. 14. Erotic City
15. 20. 7
16. 21. Cream
17. 22. Get Off
18. 23. Delirious
19. 24. Baby I'm A Star
20. 28. Controversy
21. 30. Nothing Compares 2 U
22. 31. If I Was Your Girlfriend
23. 32. The Beautiful Ones
24. 35. Adore
25. 43. Pop Life
26. 49. Sexy M.F.
27. 50. Do Me, Baby
28. 51. Take Me With U
29. 52. Sign O' The Times
30. 64. When You Were Mine
31. 65. The Glamorous Life (Sheila E.)
32. 71. I Feel For You
33. 72. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
34. 73. D.M.S.R.
35. 81. Partyman
36. 82. International Lover
37. 83. Thieves In The Temple
38. 84. Starfish and Coffee
39. 85. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Prince, Steve Windwood, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison)
40. 95. Soft and Wet
41. 96. Insatiable
42. 97. Sometimes It Snows In April
43. 98. Head
44. 99. Batdance
45. 100. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?