Most streamed artists on Spotify

Expectedly, the most streamed artist of all-time is Drake, followed by Bad Bunny who leads among Latin acts. The top 3 is completed by Taylor Swift, who’s flying after taking over the top spot among the top female singles ahead of Ariana Grande.

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

Most streamed artists on Spotify – Results

# Artist Lead Streams Tracks 1b 100m 10m 1m Feat Streams
1 Drake
4 day(s) old data
58,965,341,533 283 7 156 276 280 21,353,247,058
2 Bad Bunny
Up to date data
55,040,681,945 163 10 127 159 162 8,409,552,136
3 Taylor Swift
Up to date data
48,228,381,163 362 3 145 291 351 512,588,175
4 The Weeknd
Up to date data
43,611,921,301 222 10 82 151 219 6,641,184,095
5 Ed Sheeran
6 day(s) old data
42,736,796,879 271 11 69 191 247 3,225,707,314
6 Justin Bieber
12 day(s) old data
36,417,121,764 227 9 63 176 197 11,588,042,184
7 Eminem
4 day(s) old data
35,328,685,091 300 7 69 229 267 4,855,392,407
8 Ariana Grande
4 day(s) old data
35,062,355,452 174 8 72 127 171 3,695,879,939
9 BTS
2 day(s) old data
33,358,204,402 263 4 106 216 263 659,396,548
10 Post Malone
Up to date data
33,237,507,633 101 10 61 83 85 2,995,660,172
11 J Balvin
19 day(s) old data
30,158,950,377 254 4 73 162 237 8,693,182,847
12 Kanye West
3 day(s) old data
29,775,995,653 240 2 71 197 222 6,536,236,206
13 Billie Eilish
1 day(s) old data
27,419,364,069 67 6 51 61 64 0
14 Coldplay
17 day(s) old data
25,730,085,068 299 9 38 188 280 0
15 Dua Lipa
4 day(s) old data
25,366,751,139 198 8 37 87 171 390,069,654
16 Juice WRLD
4 day(s) old data
25,180,453,333 119 3 64 115 118 5,424,840,063
17 Imagine Dragons
4 day(s) old data
24,845,842,772 192 8 43 117 157 596,222,414
18 Rihanna
4 day(s) old data
24,647,272,794 282 7 49 117 214 9,131,751,151
19 XXXTENTACION
4 day(s) old data
24,558,049,125 146 8 46 112 142 2,934,330,015
20 Ozuna
4 day(s) old data
23,515,736,258 254 1 54 166 225 8,697,095,827
21 Khalid
4 day(s) old data
23,079,132,139 126 7 45 98 116 3,170,819,193
22 Maroon 5
4 day(s) old data
22,374,255,503 243 9 31 112 200 19,675
23 Travis Scott
4 day(s) old data
21,712,282,240 112 4 53 91 106 12,708,101,492
24 Sam Smith
Up to date data
21,458,489,335 196 6 38 96 155 305,886,360
25 Bruno Mars
4 day(s) old data
21,085,625,347 81 8 33 61 76 5,007,292,062

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Most streamed artists on Spotify – How it works

What is this ranking about exactly?

This ranking presents the top Spotify artists based on streams from tracks available inside their personal page’s sections Albums, Singles and Compilations. They are combined together and defined as “Lead streams”.
The number of tracks available and over several milestones are based on lead songs only.
Streams achieved thanks to songs listed below the Appears on section on Spotify do not impact the overall ranking and these milestones statistics. They appear in the “Featured streams” column.

I was looking for an artist and can’t find them. Why?

While the highest part of the list is comprehensive, as we go down artists may be missing. If you notice an omission, just use our streaming data tool to look for the related artist and if he scored enough streams he will automatically and instantly appear in this top. In fact, we update numbers continuously as you search for them. As soon as new daily data is in for an artist, this will be reflected in the overall ranking.

There’s an issue with the data. How does it get fixed?

As the Spotify database is tricky, we can’t guarantee you there won’t be occasional data glitches, even if we developed several controls to grant data consistency. If an issue appears in spite of these controls, we perform manual fixes.
If the issue persists, reach out to us at contact@chartmasters.org to tell us about it.

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