List of most-streamed artists on Spotify Last updated October 28, 2025  
 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.  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 (2023–2024).
Most-streamed artists By year Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.
By decade Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.
First 10 years The most streamed artists in the first 10 years of the existence of Spotify.
Most monthly listeners As of October 2025 , Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd  is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He was the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift  was the first female artist and second overall. [ 18]   American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish  was the third and youngest artist to achieve the feat. [ 19]   Barbadian singer Rihanna  is the latest artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners. [ 20]   American rapper Kendrick Lamar  was the first rapper to both achieve the feat and surpass the 110 million mark. British band Coldplay  holds the record for groups at 98 million monthly listeners and are the first in their category to reach the 60, 70, 80 and 90 million marks. [ 21]  
Cross-market chart presence An external study by DataPulse Research, in collaboration with the piano learning app Skoove, analyzed Spotify's Top 200 weekly charts across 73 countries for 59 weeks (23 May 2024 – 10 July 2025). Using a points-based method that weighted weekly positions (No. 1 = 200 … No. 200 = 1) and credited all named artists on collaborations, the authors ranked artists by cross-market chart presence. This measure reflects frequency and breadth of appearances in national charts rather than lifetime streams or monthly listeners. [ 72]  
Rank Artist Region North America Europe East Asia South, Central, & Western Asia South & Central America Africa Oceania 1  Billie Eilish   1.64% 1.55% 1.03% 1.25% 0.46% 0.83% 2.86% 2  Sabrina Carpenter   2.11% 1.05% 1.37% 0.77% 0.3% 0.19% 3.3% 3  Kendrick Lamar   2.3% 0.81% 0.61% 0.81% 0.09% 0.71% 2.86% 4  Bruno Mars   1.06% 0.82% 1.73% 0.82% 0.6% 0.4% 1.68% 5  SZA   1.56% 0.29% 1.31% 0.49% 0.03% 0.35% 2.51% 6  The Weeknd   0.79% 0.74% 0.7% 1.15% 0.12% 0.27% 0.97% 7  Chappell Roan   1.54% 0.47% 0.28% 0.19% 0.02% 0.03% 1.93% 8  Lady Gaga   0.69% 0.7% 0.69% 0.53% 0.38% 0.26% 0.9% 9  Benson Boone   0.91% 0.65% 0.28% 0.23% 0.11% 0.15% 1.78% 10  Coldplay   0.46% 0.55% 0.62% 0.45% 0.01% 0% 1.95% 11  Playboi Carti   0.91% 0.75% 0.16% 0.66% 0.01% 0.32% 1.01% 12  Jimin   0.34% 0.31% 1.6% 0.35% 0.41% 0.15% 0% 13  Teddy Swims   0.61% 0.81% 0.03% 0.26% 0.05% 0.1% 1.65% 14  Gracie Abrams   0.76% 0.44% 0.39% 0.25% 0% 0.04% 1.47% 15  Taylor Swift   0.81% 0.24% 0.68% 0.15% 0% 0.01% 1.32% 16  Rosé   0.37% 0.33% 1.19% 0.32% 0.19% 0.14% 0.53% 17  Jennie   0.29% 0.18% 1.38% 0.53% 0.15% 0.09% 0.43% 18  Travis Scott   0.46% 0.43% 0.11% 0.39% 0% 0.22% 0.49% 19  FloyyMenor   0.3% 0.32% 0.02% 0.26% 0.57% 0.14% 0% 20  The Neighbourhood   0.33% 0.34% 0.08% 0.48% 0.05% 0.03% 0.45% As of May 2024 – July 2025 
Most-followed artists  Indian playback singer Arijit Singh  is the most-followed artist on Spotify.  As of October 2025, Indian playback singer Arijit Singh  is the most-followed artist and Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist on Spotify. [ 73]  
Timeline of peak monthly listeners  American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars  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. [ 108]  
    Indicates most streamed artist of the year
 [ b]      Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history
 [ 109]  Notes  ↑   Only lead streams are counted and features are excluded, as per  Billboard    [ 2]   and  Digital Music News   . [ 3]    ↑   For the years 2019 to 2022, and 2024, the most streamed artist of the year did not top the monthly listeners list. References  ↑    "Most streamed male group on Spotify" . Guinness World Records . 3 March 2023. Archived  from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May  2023 .  1  2   Pétala, Isabela (23 February 2024). "Taylor Swift ultrapassa Drake e se torna a cantora mais tocada na história do Spotify"  [ Taylor Swift surpasses Drake and becomes the most-streamed singer in Spotify's history] .  Billboard Brasil    (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived  from the original on 1 March 2024. Retrieved 22 August  2024 .  ↑   King, Ashley (17 September 2022). "Who are the Most Streamed Spotify Artists of All-Time?" .  Digital Music News   . Archived  from the original on 17 September 2022. 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