Most streamed artists on Spotify

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Most streamed artists on Spotify

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#	g#		ArtistNameFilter	Artist	Lead Streams	Tracks	1b	100m	10m	1m	Feat Streams	Gender	Language	Genre	Country
	1		Taylor Swift	Taylor Swift Up to date data	89,660,896,552	439	12	223	391	433	841,925,180	Solo - Female	English	Pop	United States of America
	2		Drake	Drake Up to date data	78,972,192,283	331	13	193	318	321	24,200,947,793	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	Canada
	3		Bad Bunny	Bad Bunny Up to date data	74,794,332,891	191	16	148	186	187	10,368,119,725	Solo - Male	Spanish	Reggaeton	Puerto Rico
	4		The Weeknd	The Weeknd Up to date data	60,719,873,847	229	17	93	168	224	8,748,553,666	Solo - Male	English	Pop	Canada
	5		Ed Sheeran	Ed Sheeran Up to date data	49,501,361,742	297	11	74	210	270	3,983,585,335	Solo - Male	English	Pop	United Kingdom
	6		Ariana Grande	Ariana Grande Up to date data	47,134,309,461	234	15	94	157	213	3,234,117,781	Solo - Female	English	Pop	United States of America
	7		Eminem	Eminem Up to date data	45,171,638,310	333	11	87	260	298	5,805,650,968	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	8		Justin Bieber	Justin Bieber Up to date data	43,924,744,435	226	12	70	175	195	13,616,835,901	Solo - Male	English	Pop	Canada
	9		Post Malone	Post Malone Up to date data	41,415,901,278	149	12	70	116	130	4,269,523,115	Solo - Male	English	Pop	United States of America
	10		Kanye West	Kanye West Up to date data	41,246,912,044	289	7	89	225	260	7,894,702,644	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	11		BTS	BTS Up to date data	39,753,471,126	274	4	120	227	274	773,796,122	Group - Male	Korean	K-Pop	South Korea
	12		Billie Eilish	Billie Eilish Up to date data	38,869,910,166	80	11	69	75	77	10,838	Solo - Female	English	Alternative	United States of America
	13		Rihanna	Rihanna Up to date data	33,880,101,040	375	12	55	121	226	9,894,909,751	Solo - Female	English	Pop	Barbados
	14		Coldplay	Coldplay Up to date data	33,711,336,476	306	11	42	195	287	11,290,261	Group - Male	English	Alternative	United Kingdom
	15		Travis Scott	Travis Scott Up to date data	33,527,759,420	152	4	80	120	144	15,042,415,239	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	16		J Balvin	J Balvin Up to date data	33,459,280,437	277	3	74	174	256	11,477,930,305	Solo - Male	Spanish	Reggaeton	Colombia
	17		Dua Lipa	Dua Lipa Up to date data	32,699,016,938	240	10	43	102	201	446,140,993	Solo - Female	English	Pop	United Kingdom
	18		Imagine Dragons	Imagine Dragons Up to date data	31,647,348,566	237	11	46	136	201	92,578,882	Group - Male	English	Alternative	United States of America
	19		Juice WRLD	Juice WRLD Up to date data	31,432,527,071	128	3	72	123	125	5,781,544,368	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	20		XXXTENTACION	XXXTENTACION Up to date data	29,726,592,215	149	9	51	118	149	3,557,579,423	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	21		David Guetta	David Guetta Up to date data	28,884,206,555	864	2	55	197	493	2,058,219,502	Solo - Male	English	Electronic	France
	22		Kendrick Lamar	Kendrick Lamar Up to date data	28,791,251,675	126	5	54	117	123	9,871,800,893	Solo - Male	English	Hip-hop	United States of America
	23		Ozuna	Ozuna Up to date data	28,766,517,415	301	2	63	195	263	9,629,674,304	Solo - Male	Spanish	Reggaeton	Puerto Rico
	24		Bruno Mars	Bruno Mars Up to date data	28,273,038,090	83	12	36	62	78	6,314,224,017	Solo - Male	English	Pop	United States of America
	25		Maroon 5	Maroon 5 Up to date data	27,409,799,519	249	10	32	114	207	4,903,195	Group - Male	English	Pop	United States of America
			ArtistNameFilter									Gender	Language	Genre	Country

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A few words about this ranking

Most listened to artists vs monthly listeners

A lot of publications, including popular ones like the Guinness World Records, confuse the artist with the most monthly listeners at a given point as the most streamed or popular one on Spotify.

The most streamed artists, as the general public understands it, reflects artists with the most total streams in the platform.

The confusion is due to the absence of this statistic among Spotify’s own indicators. They communicate on the artist with the most unique monthly listeners, and base their global ranking on it. Ironically, the monthly listeners statistics is largely flawed due to several technical reasons.

Internally, they use a 0-to-100 popularity index based on streams, but only recent ones are considered.

It took until we created this page back in 2020 that the general public started to get a proper view of artists who really amassed the most streams on the platform. This list is still going, getting better and better, with a comprehensive top 1,000 updating every day.

A little bit of history

Not too long ago, in late 2015, EDM star Kygo made headlines by hitting 1 billion streams in a year from his debut, a record at the time. Everything got so much bigger, and now a trio of artists are racing to become the first ever to break 100 billion plays.

Expectedly, the most streamed artist of all-time is Drake. His streams history reveal that he was the first artist at 30 billion in April 2020, at 40 billion in August 2021, 50 billion by September 2022, 60 billion by June 2023, and 70 billion by December 2023.

These numbers refer to lead streams only, which is also how artists are ranked below. If featurings are considered, Drake passed 50 billion in January 2021 and 75 billion in February 2023.

While the Canadian hip-hop star felt alone in his world for quite some time, the competition is now coming strong. The runner up is no other than Taylor Swift, who’s flying after taking over the top spot among the top female singles ahead of pop icon Ariana Grande.

The top 3 is completed by Bad Bunny who leads among Latin acts. Highlighting how strong these two artists are, Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny have been replacing each other as the top daily artist according to the popularity index since February 16, 2022, a stretch of over 700 days.

The most listened to group belongs to South Korean heroes BTS. Among legacy artists, leaders are no other than rock legends Queen.

If we look at averages rather than totals, Harry Styles is unbeatable. From his debut album to Harry’s House he issued only 36 distinct songs, all of which topped 100 million streams with ease, putting him in the all-time top 40.

Most played artists…. on all platforms?

Many relevant on-demand audio streaming platforms famously hide playcounts data, including Apple Music and Amazon Music.

Thanks to our extensive experience, that led us to thinly estimate Spotify’s market share in over 120 countries, and study every platform with more than 100,000 monthly active users, we’ve set up algorithms who precisely estimate comprehensive on-demand audio streams from all artists based on their personal profile and results.

A unique solution, our empirical approach led our scripts to get near perfect results through countless of cases when compared to certified amounts. Just hit the button below and enjoy this highly valuable data!

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