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This list has been messed up for a while, "Benny The Butcher" is #1 and plenty of artists are missing (like Ed Sheeran). Any way to fix this? It's a very useful and interesting list otherwise.
Hi, it is indicated that A$AP Rocky has 9 billion streams but it is well known that nowadays he has surpassed 15 billion streams on Spotify.
Hi asaprockystats,
You can check the top streaming artists list where all the details are posted. A$AP Rocky stands at 9,411,640,406 lead streams (listed on this page), while he scores an additional 6,227,362,721 from songs where he is featured.
I wonder what explains the discrepancy between followers and streams for Indian artists? For example Arijit Singh is the 2nd most followed artist (above Taylor) with only 10b streams, and an even stranger case is Neha Kakkar, 20nd most followed (above Post Malone or Dua Lipa) with...1.7b streams. How come?
Hi Analord!
From what I've understood has it been a normal practice in India to make a new account every time their free trial runs out. That could be an explanation for it, although I haven't seen much concrete evidence.
Also from what I've read India has something like 65 million active users, while Arijit Singh has 95 million followers... Is that even possible?
(glad that Edit function is back btw)
Not sure if it's that high yet (although close) but yes, active users. If what I said earlier impacts as much as it seems would it mean a lot of the accounts who follow him (and other big Indian acts) aren't active.
Spotify have never deactivated these kind of users before I think but if they do in the future he might see a very big drop.
Ah that would definitely be a simple explanation for this. It's something I've been wondering about too.
They are certainly doing better than Metallica in more recent days/weeks/months but I wouldn't quite class it as destroying them and it does seem like swings and roundabouts with these two, when looked at over longer periods of time.
2024
Apr: (so far) A: 162m/M: 142m
Mar: A: 227m/M: 195m
Feb: A: 183m/M: 184m
Jan: A: 174m/M: 194m
2023
Jul-Dec: A: 1,003m/M: 1,141m
Also, when AC/DC came to Spotify in June 2015, Metallica had around 400m streams, now they are around 1.1b ahead of DC.
So AC/DC's 37.7 million monthly listeners listen to few songs, while Metallica's 25.8 million listen to significantly more. It's hard to believe...
Yes, kind of like, AC/DC has more listeners but perhaps less fans, say people who just want to hear HTH, BIB, YSMANL, HV, Thunderstruck etc, whereas Metallica has less listeners but perhaps more fans, who want to hear their top tracks and a few album tracks. Also, a far greater majority of AC/DCs daily streams come from their top tracks than Metallicas. It's very clear that despite having less listeners, those listeners go deeper into Metallicas catalogue, more often, than people do with AC/DCs.
AC/DC
Daily Total: 8,215,000
Daily Top 5: 5,330,000 (65%)
Daily Top 10: 6,350,000 (77%)
Metallica
Daily Total: 6,976,000
Daily Top 5: 2,746,000 (39%)
Daily Top 10: 3,866,000 (55%)
Saying that, it is not a significant difference between the amount of songs each listener listens to. Just doing a very rough calculation:
AC/DC: 8,215,000 x 30 days = 246,450,000/37,700,000 = 6.5
Metallica: 6,976,000 x 30 days = 209,280,000/25,800,000 = 8.1
Also, Metallica have more tracks over 100m, 24 compared to AC/DCs 17, more tracks over 50m, 56 compared to 29 and more tracks over 10m, 117 compared to 83.
The same goes for Metallica compared to Green Day, Guns and Nirvana?????
