List of most-streamed artists on Spotify

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American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify's history.
Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history.[1]

The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist,[2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.[a] Since 2012, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (2020–2022). Swift is the only female artist to have topped the list (2023).

Most-streamed artists

By year

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

Year Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2013[4] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[5] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[6] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[7] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[8] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[9] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[10] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny
2020[11] Bad Bunny (8.3 billion) Drake J Balvin Juice Wrld The Weeknd
2021[12] Bad Bunny (9.1 billion) Taylor Swift BTS Drake Justin Bieber
2022[13] Bad Bunny (18.5 billion) Taylor Swift Drake The Weeknd BTS
2023[14] Taylor Swift (26.1 billion) Bad Bunny The Weeknd Drake Peso Pluma

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

Decade Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2010s[15] Drake (28 billion) Ed Sheeran Post Malone Ariana Grande Eminem

First 10 years

The most streamed artists in the first 10 years of the existence of Spotify.

Years Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2008–2018[16] Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna

Most monthly listeners

As of October 2024, Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify. He became the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify's history, and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift became the first female artist and the second overall to achieve the milestone.[17] American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is the third and thus far youngest artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners.[18] The record for groups is 87 million, with Coldplay being the first to achieve the milestone.[19]

Rank Artist Monthly listeners
(millions)
Chg Ref(s).
1 The Weeknd 113.47 Steady [20]
2 Bruno Mars 104.75 Increase [21]
3 Billie Eilish 104.36 Decrease [22]
4 Lady Gaga 99.54 Steady [23]
5 Taylor Swift 91.30 Steady [24]
6 Coldplay 87.49 Steady [25]
7 Rihanna 83.55 Steady [26]
8 Sabrina Carpenter 82.40 Steady [27]
9 Post Malone 78.09 Steady [28]
10 Ariana Grande 77.67 Steady [29]
11 Justin Bieber 77.25 Steady [30]
12 Eminem 75.88 Increase [31]
13 David Guetta 75.78 Decrease [32]
14 Drake 75.27 Steady [33]
15 Ed Sheeran 71.19 Steady [34]
16 Travis Scott 69.79 Steady [35]
17 Kanye West 66.02 Increase [36]
18 SZA 65.95 Decrease [37]
19 Calvin Harris 65.62 Steady [38]
20 Kendrick Lamar 65.48 Steady [39]
21 Bad Bunny 65.30 Steady [40]
22 Dua Lipa 64.53 Steady [41]
23 Shakira 62.99 Steady [42]
24 Maroon 5 62.48 Steady [43]
25 Adele 61.29 Steady [44]
26 Lana Del Rey 61.24 Steady [45]
27 Imagine Dragons 60.55 Increase [46]
28 Karol G 60.41 Decrease [47]
29 Linkin Park 60.31 Steady [48]
30 Katy Perry 59.89 Steady [49]
31 Marshmello 58.14 Steady [50]
32 Future 56.36 Steady [51]
33 J Balvin 56.02 Steady [52]
34 Sia 55.57 Steady [53]
35 Miley Cyrus 55.40 Steady [54]
36 Beyoncé 54.35 Steady [55]
37 Khalid 53.52 Increase [56]
38 OneRepublic 53.50 Decrease [57]
39 Daddy Yankee 53.37 Decrease [58]
40 Arctic Monkeys 53.28 Steady [59]
41 Queen 52.73 Steady [60]
42 Metro Boomin 52.27 Steady [61]
43 Hozier 52.00 Steady [62]
44 Sam Smith 51.87 Steady [63]
45 21 Savage 51.62 Steady [64]
46 Benson Boone 51.20 Steady [65]
47 Playboi Carti 51.15 Steady [66]
48 Chris Brown 49.55 Steady [67]
49 Doja Cat 49.42 Steady [68]
50 The Chainsmokers 48.82 Steady [69]
As of October 4, 2024

Most-followed artists

Indian playback singer Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist on Spotify.

As of August 2024, Indian playback singer Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist and Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist on Spotify.[70]

Rank Artist[71][72] Followers
(millions)
Ref(s).
1 Arijit Singh 120.5 [73]
2 Taylor Swift 120.3 [74]
3 Ed Sheeran 115.7 [75]
4 Ariana Grande 99.3 [76]
5 Billie Eilish 98.7 [77]
6 Drake 91.4 [78]
7 The Weeknd 89.9 [79]
8 Eminem 89.5 [80]
9 Bad Bunny 85 [81]
10 Justin Bieber 76.9 [82]
11 BTS 75.5 [83]
12 Rihanna 62.3 [84]
13 Bruno Mars 58.4 [85]
14 Adele 58.2 [86]
15 Imagine Dragons 54.2 [87]
16 Coldplay 52.9 [88]
17 A.R. Rahman 51.4 [89]
18 Queen 51 [90]
19 Blackpink 50.7 [91]
20 Selena Gomez 50.7 [92]
21 Karol G 49.8 [93]
22 Neha Kakkar 47.7 [94]
23 XXXTentacion 46.4 [95]
24 Post Malone 45.2 [96]
25 Dua Lipa 44.5 [97]
26 Shawn Mendes 43.1 [98]
27 Maroon 5 42.5 [99]
28 Alan Walker 39.3 [100]
29 Olivia Rodrigo 39.2 [101]
30 Lana Del Rey 39.1 [102]
31 Beyoncé 38.4 [103]
32 Anuel AA 37.4 [104]
33 Ozuna 37.3 [105]
34 J Balvin 37 [106]
35 Pritam 36.7 [107]
36 One Direction 36.1 [108]
37 Juice Wrld 35 [109]
38 Daddy Yankee 34.6 [110]
39 Sidhu Moosewala 34.5 [111]
40 Marília Mendonça 34.3 [112]
41 Maluma 34.3 [113]
42 Katy Perry 34.2 [114]
43 Shakira 34.2 [115]
44 Marshmello 33.8 [116]
45 Camila Cabello 33.7 [117]
46 Harry Styles 32.8 [118]
47 Kendrick Lamar 32.2 [119]
48 Michael Jackson 32.2 [120]
49 Travis Scott 32.1 [121]
50 Nicki Minaj 32.1 [122]
As of 24 September 2024

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd is the artist with the highest recorded number of monthly listeners.

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.[123]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year[b]
  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history[124]

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd[125]
October
November Justin Bieber[126]
December

2016

Month Artist
January Justin Bieber[127]
February
March
April Rihanna[128]
May Drake[129]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[129]

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[129]
February Ed Sheeran[130]
March
April The Weeknd
May
June
July Daddy Yankee[131]
August The Weeknd
September Ed Sheeran[132]
October
November
December

2018

Month Artist
January The Weeknd
February
March
April
May Drake[133]
June J Balvin[134]
July The Weeknd
August
September
October
November Ariana Grande[135]
December

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande[136]
February The Weeknd
March Ariana Grande[137]
April Khalid[138]
May
June The Weeknd
July Ed Sheeran[139]
August The Weeknd
September
October Ed Sheeran[140]
November The Weeknd
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[139]
February Justin Bieber[141]
March
April The Weeknd[142]
May
June
July The Weeknd[143]
August
September
October
November Ariana Grande[144]
December

2021

Month Artist
January Justin Bieber[145]
February The Weeknd[146]
March
April Justin Bieber[147]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2022

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[148]
February
March Ed Sheeran[149]
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift[150]
December The Weeknd[151]

2023

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[152]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift[153]
December

2024

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[154]
February The Weeknd[155]
March The Weeknd[156]
April
May
June
July
August Billie Eilish[157]
September The Weeknd[158]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Only lead streams are counted and features are excluded, as per Billboard[2] and Digital Music News[3].
  2. ^ From 2019 to 2022, the most streamed artist of the year didn't top the monthly listeners list.

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