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 03/30/23

Rank		Followers	Daily Gain	Weekly Gain
1	The Weeknd	61,677,202	65,557	485,271
2	Taylor Swift	70,715,619	64,612	553,849
3	Arijit Singh	72,528,194	61,215	442,203
4	Bad Bunny	66,756,169	46,512	340,967
5	Eminem	68,087,675	44,296	321,142
6	Billie Eilish	78,334,992	43,022	324,670
7	BLACKPINK	38,950,703	34,811	241,473
8	BTS	62,908,734	33,918	262,036
9	Drake	73,522,640	32,282	244,481
10	A.R. Rahman	31,208,558	29,164	206,103
11	Pritam	12,770,217	28,827	209,633
12	Karol G	33,634,745	28,511	214,512
13	Sidhu Moose Wala	16,378,354	28,110	204,408
14	Lana Del Rey	22,196,588	27,548	236,898
15	Ariana Grande	89,017,617	24,081	183,532
16	Selena Gomez	41,157,413	23,105	172,369
17	Coldplay	42,888,082	22,726	167,977
18	Ed Sheeran	110,756,302	22,609	168,307
19	Rihanna	54,018,473	22,110	162,488
20	Anuel Aa	27,804,160	21,534	130,663
21	Imagine Dragons	46,640,178	21,232	159,562
22	Justin Bieber	70,871,824	20,693	148,237
23	Peso Pluma	1,368,822	19,977	143,082
24	Shakira	28,034,420	19,852	152,413
25	Adele	47,246,869	19,760	140,206
26	Anirudh Ravichander	17,256,897	18,757	129,881
27	Junior H	6,519,183	18,625	137,520
28	Bruno Mars	47,204,006	18,101	133,422
29	Marília Mendonça	29,773,648	17,927	134,741
30	SZA	11,574,942	17,257	131,564
31	Jimin	4,565,877	17,129	202,210
32	Katy Perry	26,015,088	17,114	128,296
33	King	2,395,635	16,448	121,082
34	Bizarrap	9,933,626	16,010	135,376
35	Jubin Nautiyal	9,661,234	14,924	108,624
36	Harry Styles	26,772,707	14,856	113,783
37	Feid	4,321,258	14,543	105,206
38	Atif Aslam	13,759,571	14,164	102,737
39	Arctic Monkeys	19,132,906	14,045	103,361
40	One Direction	30,212,856	14,038	104,437
41	Tulus	10,443,901	13,852	102,312
42	Tyler the Creator	10,783,848	13,551	66,286
43	Rauw Alejandro	16,173,502	13,249	100,281
44	Queen	45,921,223	13,144	98,729
45	Juice WRLD	28,391,400	13,083	96,380
46	Lady Gaga	25,754,385	12,840	94,652
47	Daddy Yankee	32,056,729	12,605	90,683
48	Michael Jackson	26,595,632	12,365	92,496
49	XXXTentacion	40,966,487	12,363	88,466
50	Melanie Martinez	16,807,591	12,331	77,150
51	Shreya Ghoshal	16,654,938	11,982	85,892
52	Ozuna	36,126,533	11,930	84,310
53	Olivia Rodrigo	24,633,552	11,705	90,950
54	V	12,487,452	11,640	96,877
55	Natanael Cano	6,085,279	11,326	80,161
56	Jung Kook	6,695,439	11,048	92,742
57	Cigarettes After Sex	6,643,283	10,959	67,681
58	Diljit Dosanjh	15,169,535	10,958	80,973
59	Lata Mangeshkar	8,621,015	10,922	82,019
60	Dua Lipa	39,172,674	10,784	75,637
61	NewJeans	2,813,082	10,643	80,295
62	Guns N' Roses	28,203,554	10,639	78,325
63	Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	13,677,437	10,604	77,746
64	Lil Baby	13,516,212	10,556	76,066
65	Chris Brown	18,984,122	10,391	74,551
66	LISA	4,169,146	10,298	29,971
67	50 Cent	10,584,236	10,248	72,779
68	Kendrick Lamar	23,378,618	10,216	71,445
69	Cartel De Santa	13,763,434	10,204	76,019
70	Grupo Firme	9,297,330	10,191	73,833
71	JENNIE	3,147,519	10,174	24,434
72	Romeo Santos	18,155,058	10,074	74,331
73	Arcangel	10,311,449	10,037	78,376
74	Sid Sriram	10,974,807	10,033	68,225
75	Doja Cat	24,900,751	10,009	74,370
76	ROSÉ	3,680,433	9,985	25,503
77	MC Cabelinho	2,828,194	9,979	67,052
78	Paulo Londra	21,012,947	9,923	73,600
79	Yuvan Shankar Raja	9,295,596	9,826	70,038
80	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	7,194,123	9,800	69,109
81	Alka Yagnik	8,738,369	9,793	71,728
82	Beyoncé	34,060,656	9,573	69,364
83	Metallica	24,213,781	9,507	68,117
84	j-hope	14,129,972	9,382	79,703
85	RM	13,068,072	9,352	79,167
86	J. Cole	19,631,780	9,332	66,042
87	Darshan Raval	9,372,667	9,260	67,133
88	Neha Kakkar	40,572,443	9,245	66,933
89	Kumar Sanu	9,458,004	9,225	67,743
90	Miley Cyrus	20,177,823	9,191	69,288
91	Kali Uchis	3,912,423	9,129	70,067
92	Burna Boy	5,059,449	9,074	62,690
93	Morgan Wallen	5,363,071	9,071	68,235
94	Post Malone	40,119,169	9,038	63,691
95	Morat	8,424,395	9,023	67,292
96	Karan Aujla	4,348,012	9,007	65,542
97	Sunidhi Chauhan	13,541,295	8,993	65,867
98	Armaan Malik	17,326,396	8,917	63,763
99	Badshah	23,822,375	8,916	64,156
100	JIN	5,367,111	8,910	77,145