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.

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.

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
2024 [15]	Taylor Swift (26.6 billion)	The Weeknd	Bad Bunny	Drake	Billie Eilish

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

Decade	Artist ranking
	1	2	3	4	5
2010s [16]	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 [17]	Drake	Ed Sheeran	Eminem	The Weeknd	Rihanna

Most monthly listeners

As of September2025, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, who 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] English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the latest artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners. American rapper Kendrick Lamar is the first rapper to both achieve the feat and surpass the 110 million mark. British band Coldplay hold 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. ^[20]

Rank	Artist	Monthly listeners (millions)	Chg	Ref(s).
1	Bruno Mars	111.04		[21]
2	The Weeknd	110.78		[22]
3	Justin Bieber	100.15		[23]
4	Lady Gaga	99.20		[24]
5	Coldplay	94.36		[25]
6	Ed Sheeran	93.26		[26]
7	Rihanna	91.29		[27]
8	Taylor Swift	88.54		[28]
9	Billie Eilish	87.95		[29]
10	Drake	81.24		[30]
11	David Guetta	79.32		[31]
12	Bad Bunny	78.22		[32]
13	Ariana Grande	78.05		[33]
14	Kendrick Lamar	73.75		[34]
15	Sabrina Carpenter	71.73		[35]
16	Calvin Harris	70.39		[36]
17	Maroon 5	70.32		[37]
18	SZA	68.39		[38]
19	Eminem	67.63		[39]
20	Post Malone	67.56		[40]
21	J Balvin	66.49		[41]
22	Shakira	65.52		[42]
23	Dua Lipa	62.48		[43]
24	Travis Scott	62.45		[44]
25	Katy Perry	61.95		[45]
26	Sia	60.69		[46]
27	Kanye West	59.34		[47]
28	Lana Del Rey	58.85		[48]
29	Chris Brown	58.76		[49]
30	Pitbull	58.56		[50]
31	Doja Cat	58.44		[51]
32	Sombr	57.78		[52]
33	KPop Demon Hunters	56.85		[53]
34	Beyoncé	56.60		[54]
35	Black Eyed Peas	54.89		[55]
36	Daddy Yankee	54.38		[56]
37	Alex Warren	54.34		[57]
38	Imagine Dragons	53.87		[58]
39	Tate McRae	53.68		[59]
40	Michael Jackson	53.26		[60]
41	Arctic Monkeys	52.86		[61]
42	Marshmello	52.86		[62]
43	Adele	52.30		[63]
44	Benson Boone	52.25		[64]
45	Ejae	52.09		[65]
46	Rei Ami	51.98		[66]
47	Miley Cyrus	51.81		[67]
48	Linkin Park	51.55		[68]
49	Audrey Nuna	51.14		[69]
50	Future	51.07		[70]
As of September 13, 2025

Most-followed artists

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

As of September 2025, Indian playback singer Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist and Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist on Spotify. ^[71]

Rank	Artist [72] [73]	Followers (millions)	Ref(s).
1	Arijit Singh	156.8	[74]
2	Taylor Swift	142.0	[28]
3	Ed Sheeran	121.8	[26]
4	Billie Eilish	116.2	[29]
5	The Weeknd	110.0	[22]
6	Ariana Grande	106.5	[33]
7	Eminem	103.1	[39]
8	Drake	101.1	[30]
9	Bad Bunny	99.7	[32]
10	Justin Bieber	84.0	[23]
11	BTS	80.4	[75]
12	Bruno Mars	74.1	[21]
13	A.R. Rahman	68.0	[76]
14	Rihanna	67.9	[27]
15	Adele	65.6	[63]
16	Coldplay	59.8	[25]
17	Karol G	59.0	[77]
18	Imagine Dragons	58.0	[58]
19	Pritam	56.3	[78]
20	Blackpink	55.2	[79]
21	Queen	54.7	[80]
22	Selena Gomez	53.0	[81]
23	XXXTentacion	51.1	[82]
24	Lana Del Rey	50.2	[83]
25	Neha Kakkar	48.6	[84]
26	Olivia Rodrigo	47.8	[85]
27	Post Malone	47.4	[86]
28	Dua Lipa	46.5	[43]
29	Shawn Mendes	45.4	[87]
30	Maroon 5	45.4	[37]
31	Sidhu Moose Wala	44.1	[88]
32	Anuel AA	43.7	[89]
33	Kendrick Lamar	43.5	[34]
34	Anirudh Ravichander	41.8	[90]
35	Juice Wrld	41.7	[91]
36	Alan Walker	41.1	[92]
37	Beyoncé	40.8	[93]
38	Lady Gaga	40.7	[24]
39	Travis Scott	40.3	[94]
40	One Direction	40.1	[95]
41	Shakira	39.1	[96]
42	Ozuna	39.0	[97]
43	J Balvin	38.8	[98]
44	Atif Aslam	38.5	[99]
45	Marília Mendonça	38.0	[100]
46	Maluma	37.9	[101]
47	Katy Perry	37.9	[102]
48	Daddy Yankee	37.5	[103]
49	Michael Jackson	36.6	[104]
50	Camila Cabello	35.3	[105]
As of September 1, 2025

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. ^[106]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year ^[b]

  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history ^[107]

2015

Month	Artist
September	The Weeknd [108]
October
November	Justin Bieber [109]
December

2016

Month	Artist
January	Justin Bieber [110]
February
March
April	Rihanna [111]
May	Drake [112]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December	The Weeknd [112]

2017

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd [112]
February	Ed Sheeran [113]
March
April	The Weeknd
May
June
July	Daddy Yankee [114]
August	The Weeknd
September	Ed Sheeran [115]
October
November
December

2018

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd
February
March
April
May	Drake [116]
June	J Balvin [117]
July	The Weeknd
August
September
October
November	Ariana Grande [118]
December

2019

Month	Artist
January	Ariana Grande [119]
February	The Weeknd
March	Ariana Grande [120]
April	Khalid [121]
May
June	The Weeknd
July	Ed Sheeran [122]
August	The Weeknd
September
October	Ed Sheeran [123]
November	The Weeknd
December

2020

Month	Artist
January	Ed Sheeran [122]
February	Justin Bieber [124]
March
April	The Weeknd [125]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Ariana Grande [126]
December

2021

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

2022

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd [130]
February
March	Ed Sheeran [131]
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Taylor Swift [132]
December	The Weeknd [133]

2023

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd [134]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Taylor Swift [135]
December

2024

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd [136]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August	Billie Eilish [137]
September	The Weeknd [138]
October
November	Bruno Mars [139]
December

2025

Month	Artist
January	Bruno Mars [140]
February
March
April
May
June
July	The Weeknd [141]
August	Bruno Mars [142]
September

See also

• List of Spotify streaming records
• List of most-viewed YouTube channels
• List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
• List of most-followed Facebook pages
• List of most-followed TikTok accounts
• List of most-followed Twitch channels
• List of most-followed Twitter accounts
• List of most-followed Instagram accounts

Notes

1. Only lead streams are counted and features are excluded, as per Billboard ^[2] and Digital Music News . ^[3]
2. For the years 2019 to 2022, and 2024, the most streamed artist of the year did not top the monthly listeners list.

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