All vikisPurple Rain Soundtrack
Official: The album on Apple Music
Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain (1984), the soundtrack of the film, in full, all 9 songs from Let's Go Crazy to Purple Rain, 44 minutes, each playing from its first second. It is certified 13 times Platinum and became a stage musical in 2025.
We rate the Purple Rain soundtrack S tier, and we think it is the one album of the ten song-led soundtracks here that would be just as famous if the film had never been made. The rule gives it S without argument. Thirteen times Platinum is the figure the RIAA awarded on May 16, 1996, and it has not been raised since (RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026). And it has just become a stage show: the musical Purple Rain, with a book by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, opened in Minneapolis, Prince's home city, on Nov 5, 2025 and played there until Nov 23, a tryout for the Broadway run its makers hope for (MPR News, Nov 5, 2025).
This is the title song, the last track and the longest at 8:45, a fifth of the album's running time on its own. Apple Music dates the Warner Bros. release Jun 25, 1984 (Apple Music), and the nine songs come to 43 minutes 48 seconds as we timed them.
Nine songs, one band
Unlike the other albums on this shelf, Purple Rain is one act's record from start to finish: the album is credited to Prince and the Revolution, and nothing on it is borrowed from another artist or another decade. That is why we file it with the song-led soundtracks and still think of it as a Prince album first.
It won the Academy Award for Original Song Score (oscars.org), the category for a film's songs as a whole rather than a single song.
Three weeks from entry to No. 1
Its first week on the Billboard 200, Jul 14, 1984, put it straight in at No. 11, and three weeks later, on Aug 4, nothing outsold it. Billboard's page for Sep 1, 1984 shows the run then five weeks old, in only the album's eighth week on the list.
Highlights
None here. When Vi.ki ran its measurement on these uploads on Nov 11, 2026 (the home page has the method), no song's loudest eight seconds rose the 6 decibels above its middle that a climax needs: the widest gap, 3.7 decibels, is in Purple Rain itself, near 6:33. Nor did any voice or instrument come in clearly enough over Prince's dense mixes to be trusted, so we keep nothing rather than guess.
All tracks
These are the 2015 Paisley Park remasters that open the Deluxe Expanded Edition on YouTube Music, in the order of the 1984 record, every one uploaded by Warner Records. I Would Die 4 U, at 2:49, is the shortest; with one video per song, Play always starts at 0:00.
Sources
- Gold and Platinum: Purple Rain, RIAA, read Nov 11, 2026
- Prince musical Purple Rain tests for Broadway success, MPR News, Nov 5, 2025
- Purple Rain, Apple Music, read Nov 11, 2026
- The 57th Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Billboard 200, Billboard, chart dated Sep 1, 1984
- Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition), YouTube Music, read Nov 11, 2026
Moments
Purple Rain (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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Let's Go Crazy (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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Take Me with U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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Computer Blue (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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Darling Nikki (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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When Doves Cry (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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I Would Die 4 U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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Baby I'm a Star (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
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