Highest gainers in followers on Spotify (daily update)

Past hits define most followed artists, but highest gainers in followers on Spotify tell you about the future! Find out the next big thing.

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Highest gainers in followers – Methodology

What does this top mean?

Raw streaming numbers tell you who amassed the most streams in the past. The popularity index tells you who’s gaining the most streams right now. Followers counts reveal who have the most traction to keep increasing at fast pace.

What’s the next big thing though? And who’s going to slow down? To answer this question, the most relevant indicator is how many fans are artists gaining.

It’s all about the circle of life.

When you are a teenager, you get crazy about some artists and start following them. These new fans will stream their fave an awful lot for several years. As they get older, they will likely move on entirely from stanning, but will forever keep a lovely nostalgia vibe about their former fave, and play back a few songs from time to time.

That’s how a new fan today is someone who will grant you heavy streams for several years and consistency for even longer.

Frequently asked questions

What do the numbers mean?

Our page currently lists the 100 fastest gainers in followers on Spotify and shows for each of them 3 statistics: total followers, daily gains and weekly gains.

The total followers data is important to draw the context. It’s not the same to gain 50,000 followers on top of 1 million or on top of 50 million.

Daily gains, on which the list is sorted, reflect what artists are exploding right now. If an artist makes the headlines one day, you’ll see the impact instantly.

Weekly gains give a better feel of who is organically climbing.

Will I always find my artist here?

As there are literally millions of artists, and comparing the 1-day and 1-week evolution requires to store historical data, it’s impossible to be comprehensive.

However, here too we went through collecting data for a lot of artists, including all the ones tracked by CSPC articles, all artists with more than 2 billion cumulative streams, the top local performers from every relevant market as well as the current smashers of virals lists.

It takes a lot to gain over 8,000 fans in a day (the current cut for our top 100), so the list will be mostly complete. If you notice an omission, please comment it to us so that we add the artist to our tracking system.

Why have I noticed a data jump recently?

From time to time, although it’s rare, Spotify purge data from deleted accounts and the likes.

It happened on May 1st, 2020, which concluded on half a million drops for both Ed Sheeran and Drake, to point out the main examples.

Billie Eilish has a weekly increase of 88,139. Her fans are recent and her current gains pace strong enough to overcome this huge purge in a few days only.

The largest raiser in this week has been Arijit Singh followed by Neha Kakkar, two Indian superstars. Spotify roll out in this country is only 1 year old, so they lost few fans from the purge. Also, they are very hot at the moment with increases of 30,000 and 20,000 per day, respectively. This goes on to show how meaningful the statistic is as Indian artists are poised to be among the big gainers of the switch to streaming.

This week’s highest gainers in followers on Spotify

Last updated on 02/05/23

Rank		Followers	Daily Gain	Weekly Gain
1	The Weeknd	57,928,299	80,364	464,218
2	Arijit Singh	68,992,974	74,072	486,601
3	Taylor Swift	67,288,067	68,759	425,855
4	Bad Bunny	63,989,068	57,938	377,082
5	Eminem	65,549,454	56,555	333,537
6	Billie Eilish	75,909,421	55,577	340,530
7	Ed Sheeran	109,039,064	52,372	357,080
8	BTS	60,896,197	43,694	281,585
9	A.R. Rahman	29,482,509	40,409	254,855
10	BLACKPINK	37,173,000	38,736	250,239
11	Ariana Grande	87,522,190	37,348	212,456
12	Sidhu Moose Wala	14,779,343	34,053	215,600
13	Pritam	11,144,382	33,042	215,873
14	Drake	71,629,076	29,566	231,910
15	Lana Del Rey	20,726,414	29,202	173,110
16	Imagine Dragons	45,361,497	28,167	175,502
17	Karol G	31,919,456	28,086	178,308
18	Marília Mendonça	28,617,705	27,581	167,045
19	Justin Bieber	69,677,086	26,200	177,411
20	Shakira	26,829,335	25,977	151,590
21	Anirudh Ravichander	16,184,164	25,924	158,795
22	SZA	10,477,063	25,643	143,893
23	Coldplay	41,652,439	25,332	162,048
24	Adele	46,119,461	23,613	194,955
25	Bruno Mars	46,170,980	23,244	166,368
26	NewJeans	2,041,340	22,504	141,888
27	Anuel Aa	26,615,729	21,906	144,909
28	Bizarrap	8,997,144	21,369	124,654
29	Tulus	9,495,552	21,334	121,716
30	Katy Perry	25,024,152	20,952	132,984
31	Rihanna	52,451,906	20,878	127,246
32	Jubin Nautiyal	8,702,050	20,821	140,993
33	Selena Gomez	39,928,542	19,695	127,250
34	One Direction	29,328,279	19,678	106,741
35	Olivia Rodrigo	23,859,214	19,591	140,387
36	Atif Aslam	12,835,154	19,348	127,358
37	Junior H	5,502,547	19,282	124,286
38	Queen	45,132,951	18,069	126,785
39	Harry Styles	25,845,774	17,817	111,435
40	Lady Gaga	25,003,623	17,425	106,444
41	Arctic Monkeys	18,331,145	17,006	106,064
42	XXXTentacion	40,247,314	16,601	111,999
43	Doja Cat	24,255,371	16,005	99,826
44	Beyoncé	33,441,277	15,760	76,725
45	Juice WRLD	27,658,105	15,719	102,987
46	Michael Jackson	25,900,985	15,482	90,225
47	Shreya Ghoshal	15,949,460	15,183	99,086
48	Daddy Yankee	31,330,142	14,762	101,706
49	Ozuna	35,416,230	14,735	94,448
50	Sam Smith	21,647,891	14,333	94,946
51	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	12,991,493	14,040	94,526
52	Guns N' Roses	27,579,953	13,926	95,943
53	Feid	3,502,280	13,919	89,560
54	V	11,784,534	13,778	90,247
55	Sid Sriram	10,413,648	13,493	85,941
56	Neha Kakkar	39,976,238	13,423	90,691
57	Lata Mangeshkar	7,986,433	13,154	85,455
58	Miley Cyrus	19,583,601	13,139	87,875
59	Diljit Dosanjh	14,556,550	12,970	83,441
60	Yuvan Shankar Raja	8,737,134	12,874	79,636
61	Rauw Alejandro	15,497,600	12,735	102,347
62	Dua Lipa	38,580,745	12,588	106,710
63	Twice	16,503,156	12,523	78,831
64	Jung Kook	5,982,991	12,501	81,117
65	Chris Brown	18,389,612	12,470	70,448
66	Cartel De Santa	13,178,244	12,384	99,835
67	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	6,647,423	12,104	77,661
68	Carin Leon	5,378,667	12,061	67,799
69	Kumar Sanu	8,891,130	12,007	79,550
70	Gusttavo Lima	18,553,221	11,954	85,009
71	Romeo Santos	17,574,661	11,888	57,611
72	Cigarettes After Sex	6,141,753	11,885	66,330
73	Guru Randhawa	14,111,487	11,885	79,807
74	Badshah	23,284,191	11,830	76,965
75	Metallica	23,676,590	11,824	69,471
76	Alka Yagnik	8,166,645	11,809	78,820
77	Charlie Puth	19,309,703	11,782	80,131
78	Henrique & Juliano	17,891,540	11,729	79,929
79	Armaan Malik	16,792,308	11,635	81,167
80	Paulo Londra	20,438,929	11,501	90,885
81	Jimin	3,743,218	11,331	73,827
82	Shawn Mendes	40,723,423	11,212	71,432
83	Maroon 5	39,536,756	11,171	74,838
84	Ana Castela	625,107	11,074	43,921
85	King	1,724,786	10,886	72,464
86	Karan Aujla	3,879,943	10,878	53,698
87	Sunidhi Chauhan	13,016,819	10,873	72,853
88	Darshan Raval	8,840,665	10,840	72,661
89	AC/DC	25,602,544	10,785	62,760
90	Udit Narayan	8,777,576	10,776	71,342
91	Alan Walker	36,939,107	10,771	74,226
92	Arcangel	9,762,098	10,610	61,277
93	Lil Baby	12,981,214	10,594	70,730
94	Camila Cabello	29,302,764	10,510	69,118
95	RM	12,545,820	10,422	69,012
96	Post Malone	39,591,408	10,393	65,036
97	Grupo Firme	8,757,554	10,360	72,578
98	Sonu Nigam	10,877,065	10,266	67,732
99	Kendrick Lamar	22,818,089	10,237	67,520
100	j-hope	13,568,260	10,028	67,276