Key Takeaways
- Streaming Preferences: Kiss fans have distinct favorites and least favorites among the band’s songs.
- Most Popular Tracks: “Strutter” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” are among the most streamed songs from their albums.
- Underrated Gems: Some lesser-known tracks from albums like Asylum and Hotter Than Hell are often skipped but deserve more recognition.
- Streaming Stats: The data reflects the popularity and obscurity of various Kiss songs as of September 15, 2025.
When it comes to streaming, Kiss fans have no problem making their likes and dislikes known.
You could probably name the group’s five or six most popular songs off the top of your head, although the order might surprise you. “Rock and Roll All Nite” must be at the top, right? Wrong! As you’ll see below, that honor goes to a much more divisive song.
Similarly, the songs fans skip the most from each Kiss record typically make sense, although a lot of people are missing out on some real gems from Asylum, Hotter Than Hell and a few other albums.
Using Spotify stats as of Sept. 15, 2025, here are the most skipped songs from every Kiss album:
Kiss (1974)
Most Popular Track: “Strutter” – 101,772,520 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Love Theme From Kiss” – 1,677,203 streams
Apart from a gimmicky label-mandated cover of Bobby Rydell’s 1959 hit “Kissin’ Time,” Kiss’ debut album is packed with future classics like “Cold Gin,” “Black Diamond” and “Deuce,” which dominated the group’s concert set lists for over 50 years.
So it makes sense that the album’s lone instrumental is the song with least streams. “Love Theme From Kiss” takes the first two minutes of a much longer song named “Acrobat” from the band’s early club days. A live version of the original track can be heard on the band’s self-titled 2001 box set.
<em>Hotter Than Hell</em> (1974)
Most Popular Track: “Hotter Than Hell” – 5,816,696 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Comin’ Home” – 999,030 streams
The title track to Kiss’ second album has racked up an impressive 5.8 million streams, plus another 2.2 million for the excellent Alive! version. That’s the good news.
The sad part is that one of the band’s most underrated songs, the early Beatles-inspired “Comin’ Home,” somehow hasn’t quite cracked a million streams yet. Happily, the live version from the band’s 1995 MTV Unplugged appearance has earned a much more suitable 4.2 million listens.
<em>Dressed to Kill</em> (1975)
Most Popular Track: “Rock and Roll All Nite” – 576,452,198 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Ladies in Waiting” – 1,337,257
“Rock and Roll All Nite” is undeniably the first song anybody thinks of when Kiss is mentioned, right? Well, maybe not, as Dynasty‘s “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” has earned more than twice as many Spotify streams to date.
The rest of the tracks from the hastily recorded Dressed to Kill hover way below “Rock and Roll All Nite”‘s nearly 600 thousand streams, with Gene Simmons’ particularly lecherous “Ladies in Waiting” narrowly in last place with 1.3 million streams.
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Destroyer (1976)
Most Popular Track: “Beth” – 78,271,245 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Sweet Pain” – 1,394,351 streams
Originally relegated to the B-side of the “Detroit Rock City” single, Peter Criss’ ballad “Beth” became the unexpected commercial savior of Destroyer, cracking the Top 10 and sending the album back up the charts.
Excluding the run-out groove sonic collage “Rock ‘N’ Roll Party,” the most skipped song on the album is Simmons’ “Sweet Pain.” It was recently passed by one of the weirdest songs in Kiss’ career, the overly ornate “Great Expectations.”
Rock and Roll Over (1976)
Most Popular Track: “Hard Luck Woman” – 34,204,980 streams
Most Skipped Track: “See You In Your Dreams” – 901,205 streams
Wisely noting the success of “Beth,” Paul Stanley moved off his plan to offer “Hard Luck Woman” to Rod Stewart and instead had Criss sing it on Rock and Roll Over, giving the band another soft-rock success story.
Simmons wrote and sang the album’s second-biggest hit, “Calling Dr. Love,” but is also on the hook for the most-skipped track, “See You In Your Dreams.” Unhappy with the way the song turned out here, he’d later re-record it for his 1978 solo album.
Love Gun (1977)
Most Popular Track: “Love Gun” – 90,366,528 Streams
Most Skipped Track: “Got Love For Sale” – 1,387,345 streams
Boy, Simmons is taking a beating so far. While his longtime bandmate Paul Stanley delivers another smash with the title track to the last album of Kiss’ ’70s golden era, Simmons once again takes the collar with the least-streamed track, “Got Love For Sale.” On the plus side, this is also the album where he unleashed “Christine Sixteen” and the sinister “Almost Human.”
Paul Stanley (1978)
Most Popular Track: “Tonight You Belong to Me” – 3,723,623 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Goodbye” – 409,675 streams
Unlike Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley didn’t feel like he had anything to prove with his 1978 solo album. So what he made turned out to be exactly what you’d expect – a Kiss album without any Gene Simmons songs.
Lyrically, Paul Stanley chronicled a real-life love triangle, with the opening “Tonight You Belong to Me” earning the most streams, and the closing “Goodbye’ earning the least.
Most Popular Track: “New York Groove” – 72,006,388 streams
Most Skipped Track: “Wiped-Out” – 635,424 streams
Unhappy that he was blocked from getting a bigger role in Kiss, Ace Frehley’s mindset as he recorded his 1978 album was simple and direct: “I’m gonna show those fuckers, and I’m gonna show the world,” he recalled in his 2011 memoir No Regrets.
Mission accomplished. Fans, critics and even his bandmates agree Frehley’s album was the best of the four and featured the only real hit single—a cover of Hello’s “New York Groove” that reached No. 13. The surf-rock throwback “Wiped-Out” is the most skipped song with a still respectable 635K.
Frehley was given a much bigger slice of album space on each of Kiss’ next two albums before he departed the group over creative differences in 1981.
