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List Of Most-streamed Artists On Spotify

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, and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history. 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 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014 Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015 Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016 Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017 Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018 Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019 Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny
2020 Bad Bunny (8.3 billion) Drake J Balvin Juice Wrld The Weeknd
2021 Bad Bunny (9.1 billion) Taylor Swift BTS Drake Justin Bieber
2022 Bad Bunny (18.5 billion) Taylor Swift Drake The Weeknd BTS
2023 Taylor Swift (26.1 billion) Bad Bunny The Weeknd Drake Peso Pluma
2024 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 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 Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna

Most monthly listeners

As of January 2025, 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. American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was the third and youngest artist to achieve the feat. British band Coldplay hold the record for groups at 96 million monthly listeners and are the first in their category to reach the 60, 70, 80 and 90 million marks.

Rank Artist Monthly listeners
(millions)
Chg Ref(s).
1 Bruno Mars 148 Steady
2 Lady Gaga 118.25 Steady
3 The Weeknd 117.61 Steady
4 Ariana Grande 105.67 Steady
5 Billie Eilish 105.24 Steady
6 Justin Bieber 94.71 Steady
7 Coldplay 94.24 Steady
8 Taylor Swift 92.26 Steady
9 Rihanna 86.54 Increase
10 SZA 83.06 Steady
11 Bad Bunny 82.28 Increase
12 Ed Sheeran 82.01 Decrease
13 Sabrina Carpenter 81.49 Decrease
14 Kendrick Lamar 80.11 Steady
15 Sia 76.51 Steady
16 David Guetta 75.67 Steady
17 Drake 73.15 Steady
18 Eminem 72.99 Steady
19 Rosé 70.79 Steady
20 Mariah Carey 70.18 Decrease
21 Post Malone 69.94 Steady
22 Travis Scott 68.66 Steady
23 Dua Lipa 65.90 Steady
24 Kanye West 64.72 Steady
25 Elton John 63.28 Steady
26 Katy Perry 63.28 Steady
27 Maroon 5 62.83 Steady
28 Calvin Harris 62.15 Steady
29 Shakira 60.65 Steady
30 J Balvin 60.57 Steady
31 Imagine Dragons 59.65 Steady
32 Queen 58.57 Steady
33 Miley Cyrus 58.19 Steady
34 Sam Smith 57.85 Steady
35 Beyoncé 57.52 Steady
36 Pitbull 56.88 Steady
37 Lana Del Rey 56.88 Steady
38 Adele 56.82 Steady
39 Future 56.38 Steady
40 Karol G 56.33 Steady
41 Rauw Alejandro 54.73 Steady
42 Daddy Yankee 54.61 Steady
43 Marshmello 54.02 Steady
44 Arctic Monkeys 53.50 Steady
45 Wham! 52.84 Decrease
46 Playboi Carti 52.65 Steady
47 OneRepublic 52.33 Steady
48 Tyler, the Creator 50.91 Steady
49 Gracie Abrams 50.67 Steady
50 Doja Cat 49.83 Steady
As of January 19, 2025

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.

Rank Artist Followers
(millions)
Ref(s).
1 Arijit Singh 134.7
2 Taylor Swift 130.7
3 Ed Sheeran 118.6
4 Billie Eilish 105.8
5 Ariana Grande 103
6 The Weeknd 98.3
7 Eminem 96.3
8 Drake 95.3
9 Bad Bunny 89.4
10 Justin Bieber 80.2
11 BTS 77.2
12 Bruno Mars 66.3
13 Rihanna 64.9
14 Adele 61.8
15 A.R. Rahman 58.4
16 Coldplay 56.1
17 Imagine Dragons 56.1
18 Karol G 53.9
19 Queen 52.6
20 Blackpink 52.6
21 Selena Gomez 51.6
22 XXXTentacion 48.6
23 Neha Kakkar 48
24 Post Malone 46.1
25 Dua Lipa 45.4
26 Pritam 44.6
27 Shawn Mendes 44.1
28 Lana Del Rey 43.8
29 Maroon 5 43.8
30 Olivia Rodrigo 43
31 Alan Walker 40.1
32 Anuel AA 40
33 Beyoncé 39.4
34 Sidhu Moosewala 38.8
35 One Direction 38.4
36 Juice Wrld 38
37 Ozuna 38
38 J Balvin 37.5
39 Kendrick Lamar 36.3
40 Shakira 36.3
41 Marília Mendonça 35.9
42 Daddy Yankee 35.8
43 Travis Scott 35.5
44 Katy Perry 35.7
45 Maluma 35.7
46 Anirudh Ravichander 36
47 Camila Cabello 34.4
48 Michael Jackson 34.3
49 Lady Gaga 34.1
50 Marshmello 34
As of 23 December 2024

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.

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year
  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd
October
November Justin Bieber
December

2016

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

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd
February Ed Sheeran
March
April The Weeknd
May
June
July Daddy Yankee
August The Weeknd
September Ed Sheeran
October
November
December

2018

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

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande
February The Weeknd
March Ariana Grande
April Khalid
May
June The Weeknd
July Ed Sheeran
August The Weeknd
September
October Ed Sheeran
November The Weeknd
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran
February Justin Bieber
March
April The Weeknd
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Ariana Grande
December

2021

Month Artist
January Justin Bieber
February The Weeknd
March
April Justin Bieber
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2022

Month Artist
January The Weeknd
February
March Ed Sheeran
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift
December The Weeknd

2023

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

2024

Month Artist
January The Weeknd
February
March
April
May
June
July
August Billie Eilish
September The Weeknd
October
November Bruno Mars
December

2025

Month Artist
January Bruno Mars

See also

Notes

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

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