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. Taylor Swift at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards (1).png
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. Drake July 2016.jpg
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, as well as the most-followed group on the platform. 'LG Q7 BTS edisyeon' yeyag panmae sijag (42773472410) (cropped).jpg
South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history, as well as the most-followed group on the platform.

The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of April2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify, while Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist. [2] 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).

Contents

Most-streamed artists

By year

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

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

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

DecadeArtist ranking
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2010s [14] 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.

YearsArtist ranking
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2008–2018 [15] Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna

Most monthly listeners

As of April2024, the Canadian singer the Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, while the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the female artist with the most monthly listeners. The Weeknd became the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify's history, while Taylor Swift became the first female artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify's history. [16]

RankArtistMonthly listeners
(millions)
ChgRef(s)
1 The Weeknd 113.25Steady2.svg [17]
2 Taylor Swift 98.90Steady2.svg [18]
3 Ariana Grande 90.61Steady2.svg [19]
4 Rihanna 85.92Steady2.svg [20]
5 Drake 80.97Steady2.svg [21]
6 Beyoncé 78.09Steady2.svg [22]
7 Justin Bieber 76.38Increase2.svg [23]
8 Dua Lipa 76.06Increase2.svg [24]
9 Kanye West 75.68Decrease2.svg [25]
10 Coldplay 74.08Steady2.svg [26]
11 Bruno Mars 72.61Steady2.svg [27]
12 SZA 72.37Steady2.svg [28]
13 David Guetta 72.12Decrease2.svg [29]
14 Ed Sheeran 71.70Steady2.svg [30]
15 Eminem 69.12Steady2.svg [31]
16 Bad Bunny 68.48Steady2.svg [32]
17 Miley Cyrus 68.16Increase2.svg [33]
18 Marshmello 68.00Decrease2.svg [34]
19 Travis Scott 67.60Increase2.svg [35]
20 Calvin Harris 67.26Increase2.svg [36]
21 Billie Eilish 66.53Decrease2.svg [37]
22 Doja Cat 64.72Decrease2.svg [38]
23 21 Savage 63.12Decrease2.svg [39]
24 Maroon 5 63.08Steady2.svg [40]
25 Shakira 62.44Steady2.svg [41]
26 Imagine Dragons 59.57Increase2.svg [42]
27 Tate McRae 59.29Increase2.svg [43]
28 Olivia Rodrigo 58.96Decrease2.svg [44]
29 Post Malone 58.63Decrease2.svg [45]
30 Lady Gaga 58.52Increase2.svg [46]
31 Katy Perry 58.30Decrease2.svg [47]
32 Harry Styles 57.94Increase2.svg [48]
33 Lana Del Rey 57.14Decrease2.svg [49]
34 Playboi Carti 56.10New.png [50]
35 Adele 55.41Decrease2.svg [51]
36 Sia 55.21Increase2.svg [52]
37 Peso Pluma 54.91Decrease2.svg [53]
38 Benson Boone 54.54New.png [54]
39 Karol G 54.27Decrease2.svg [55]
40 Nicki Minaj 53.88Decrease2.svg [56]
41 J Balvin 53.10Steady2.svg [57]
42 Tiësto 52.89Increase2.svg [58]
43 Future 52.38Steady2.svg [59]
44 Metro Boomin 52.37Decrease2.svg [60]
45 Kendrick Lamar 52.24Decrease2.svg [61]
46 Ty Dolla Sign 52.06Increase2.svg [62]
47 Queen 51.59Decrease2.svg [63]
48 Khalid 51.55New.png [64]
49 Elton John 50.97Increase2.svg [65]
50 Arctic Monkeys 50.86Decrease2.svg [66]
As of March 24, 2024

Most-followed artists

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the most-followed artist on Spotify. Ed Sheeran-6886 (cropped).jpg
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the most-followed artist on Spotify.

As of April2024, English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the most-followed artist on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist. Arijit Singh is the most followed non-English singing artist.

RankArtist [67] Followers
(millions)
Ref(s)
1 Ed Sheeran 113.79 [68]
2 Taylor Swift 107.34 [69]
3 Arijit Singh 107.01 [70]
4 Ariana Grande 95.26 [71]
5 Billie Eilish 92.67 [72]
6 Drake 85.60 [73]
7 Eminem 82.16 [74]
8 The Weeknd 80.85 [75]
9 Bad Bunny 79.53 [76]
10 Justin Bieber 74.08 [77]
11 BTS 72.49 [78]
12 Rihanna 58.87 [79]
13 Adele 54.30 [80]
14 Bruno Mars 53.88 [81]
15 Imagine Dragons 51.65 [82]
16 Coldplay 49.47 [83]
17 Queen 49.11 [84]
18 Selena Gomez 48.43 [85]
19 Blackpink 48.09 [86]
20 Neha Kakkar 44.87 [87]
21 Karol G 44.74 [88]
22 A.R. Rahman 43.59 [89]
23 XXXTentacion 44.03 [90]
24 Post Malone 43.24 [91]
25 Dua Lipa 42.80 [92]
26 Shawn Mendes 42.30 [93]
27 Maroon 5 41.03 [94]
28 Alan Walker 38.28 [95]
29 Beyoncé 36.73 [96]
30 J Balvin 36.49 [97]
31 Ozuna 36.30 [98]
32 Anuel AA 34.67 [99]
33 One Direction 34.36 [100]
34 Olivia Rodrigo 34.22 [101]
35 Marshmello 33.52 [102]
36 Maluma 33.46 [103]
37 Lana Del Rey 33.38 [104]
38 Daddy Yankee 33.27 [105]
39 Juice Wrld 32.93 [106]
40 Marília Mendonça 32.76 [107]
41 Camila Cabello 32.44 [108]
42 Shakira 32.22 [109]
43 Katy Perry 32.17 [110]
44 Harry Styles 31.53 [111]
45 Nicki Minaj 30.61 [112]
46 Guns N' Roses 30.20 [113]
47 Michael Jackson 30.13 [114]
48 Sidhu Moosewala 29.64 [115]
49 Lady Gaga 29.33 [116]
50 Doja Cat 29.16 [117]
As of March 25, 2024

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

Canadian singer the Weeknd is the artist with the highest recorded number of monthly listeners. The Weeknd Portrait by Brian Ziff.jpg
Canadian singer 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. [118]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year [lower-alpha 1]
  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history [119]

2015

MonthArtist
September The Weeknd [120]
October
November Justin Bieber [121]
December

2016

MonthArtist
January Justin Bieber [122]
February
March
April Rihanna [123]
May Drake [124]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd [124]

2017

MonthArtist
January The Weeknd [124]
February Ed Sheeran [125]
March
April The Weeknd
May
June
July Daddy Yankee [126]
August The Weeknd
September Ed Sheeran [127]
October
November
December

2018

MonthArtist
January The Weeknd
February
March
April
May Drake [128]
June J Balvin [129]
July The Weeknd
August
September
October
November Ariana Grande [130]
December

2019

MonthArtist
January Ariana Grande [131]
February The Weeknd
March Ariana Grande [132]
April Khalid [133]
May
June The Weeknd
July Ed Sheeran [134]
August The Weeknd
September
October Ed Sheeran [135]
November The Weeknd
December

2020

MonthArtist
January Ed Sheeran [134]
February Justin Bieber [136]
March
April The Weeknd [137]
May
June
July The Weeknd [138]
August
September
October
November Ariana Grande [139]
December

2021

MonthArtist
January Justin Bieber [140]
February The Weeknd [141]
March
April Justin Bieber [142]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2022

MonthArtist
January The Weeknd [143]
February
March Ed Sheeran [144]
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift [145]
December The Weeknd [146]

2023

MonthArtist
January The Weeknd [147]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift [148]
December

2024

MonthArtist
January The Weeknd [149]
February The Weeknd [150]
March The Weeknd [151]
April

See also

Notes

  1. From 2019 to 2022, the most streamed artist of the year didn't top the monthly listeners list.

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