It's because this ranking is on total lifetime streams; the ranking on Spotify is total monthly listeners.

PLEASE FIX THE BAD BUNNY STREAMING NUMBERS GLITCH!!!! He did not gain 3 billion streams in one day lol, but that's what both this chart, and the most popular artist chart displayed the day after his new albums release.

Juice WRLD Feat streams are false. I just calculated the streams, and he has 5 535 007 024, not 5 050 000 000. Pls fix this it's been months now that it is false.

I noticed that also drake went from 63B to 66B when he released.
BB went from 58.9B to 63B

Eminem is the only artist in top ten who is above 50. That is amazing

Alternative lists from Kworb:

Solo streams:

Taylor Swift 53.7b
Ed Sheeran 34.5b
Drake 33.6b
The Weeknd 32.1b
BTS 29.4b
Billie Eilish 26.0b
Bad Bunny 24.1b
Ariana Grande 23.7b
Imagine Dragons 23.1b
Coldplay 22.9b

Lead with features (not including duets and such):

Drake 59.3b
Taylor Swift 59.1b
The Weeknd 44.1b
Ed Sheeran 43.4b
Bad Bunny 42.6b
Eminem 36.2b
Post Malone 35.2b
Ariana Grande 33.8b
BTS 32.5b
Billie Eilish 30.0b

While posting this comment Taylor Swift is No1 right now with 108,950,215 monthly listeners, not Drake. He is No3 with 82,649,965 monthly listeners.

There should be a bot answer in this comment section saying "read the article ffs" every time "monthly listeners" is mentioned.

on spotify is says dave is 232

There is a difference between monthly listeners and total or monthly streams. That is why even though Drake's highest point in monthly listeners is number 3, he has the most streams of all time right now. Monthly listeners counts when a listener listens to the artist music for the first time during the month. That listener may not be a fan or regular listener. That is why when an artist puts out new music, their monthly listener count increases because new people are curious. But the base fans remain monthly listeners and listen to the artist music consistently. Overall, the Weeknd's streams aren't that high and this is very interesting.

Monthly listeners is not equal to most streams of all time.

I'm not sure where to post this but I've a question about the "most followed artists" page: what's with all the negative figures? For example Ed Sheeran:

Daily: -118,949
Weekly: -59,408

A bug on Spotify's end maybe?

Hi Analord!

It's not an error, it happens 2/3 times per year, it's when Spotify cleans churns from their statistics.

Oh ok, and by "cleaning churns" you don't mean inactive accounts right? I think I've read they don't delete those, actually there was a discussion here about Indian artists and I think it was Al who said a lot of their "followers" are actually inactive accounts...

Hi, your list is missing some notable K-pop acts.

ITZY and NCT 127 are over 2.3 billion
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/2KC9Qb60EaY0kW4eH68vr3_songs.html
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/7f4ignuCJhLXfZ9giKT7rH_songs.html

NCT Dream is over 2.2 billion
https://kworb.net/spotify/artist/1gBUSTR3TyDdTVFIaQnc02_songs.html