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Most monthly listeners ranking
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Want to check the detailed streaming numbers for one artist?
What do monthly listeners mean on Spotify?
The monthly listeners count on Spotify tracks how many unique users play an artist's music in the past 28 days. Unlike total streams, this number emphasizes the breadth of audience reach rather than repeat plays, giving single-hit artists and viral tracks a chance to shine.
This methodology tends to favor artists with one massive hit that overshadows the rest of their catalog. Examples include Journey, The Spice Girls, The Police, MC Hammer, among many others, whose signature songs have a disproportionately large popularity.
Additionally, this measure can inflate songs heavily featured on major playlists. The Christmas season provides a clear example: artists with seasonal hits see their monthly listeners count surge as Spotify promotes holiday-themed playlists.
Another factor skewing these rankings is collaborations. Being featured on a major hit, even via a remix, grants the featured artist all the monthly listeners associated with that song. This can significantly boost the stats of lesser-known artists who appear on tracks by more prominent acts.
Ultimately, the ranking of artists with the most monthly listeners doesn’t necessarily reflect the most popular artists or even those with the greatest global reach.
Singers who led the Top Spotify Artists ranking
Despite its limitations as a metric, reaching the #1 spot as the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify is no accident. Achieving this milestone requires a massive catalog, chart-topping current hits, and extraordinary global reach to dominate the pop music scene.
Over the years, only a select few artists have managed to claim this position. In 2023, just two stars reached the top: The Weeknd and Taylor Swift. Notably, they became the first male and female artists, respectively, to surpass 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify worldwide.
This year, both led the ranking most days, especially The Weeknd, but Billie Eilish and currently Bruno Mars also joined the party thanks to super successful hits.
Looking at the entire decade, only seven artists have achieved the #1 spot: the four aforementioned artists plus Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, and Ariana Grande. These names represent true titans of the music industry.
Interestingly, past leaders included artists from genres beyond pop, such as hip-hop (Drake), R&B (Khalid), and Latin music (Daddy Yankee, J Balvin). However, as Spotify's subscriber base has grown significantly over this decade, especially in Asia, dominating the platform now demands a strong pop appeal, making it increasingly difficult for other genres to claim the top position.
Spotify monthly listeners' peaks
If you are wondering where your favorite artist peaked, the table below lists the highest number recorded by each one since we started tracking them in November 2022.
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FAQ: common questions about Spotify monthly listeners
This metric reflects the number of unique users who listened to an artist's songs in the past 28 days.
Monthly listeners highlight audience reach and serve as a key indicator of an artist's global presence.
Bruno Mars leads the pack, setting the all-time record at 150 million monthly listeners.
This page updates daily to reflect Spotify’s rolling statistics.
The record for most monthly listeners is held by Bruno Mars at over 151 million.
The record for a female artist was set by Lady Gaga, who climbed past 124 million.
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Raste
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Inkonnu
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