Most followed artists on Spotify

As of May 12, 2025, Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist on Spotify, boasting 145,503,248 followers.

In today’s music industry, follower counts on streaming platforms have become far more meaningful than those on social media. While Instagram or Twitter followers often reflect how active an artist is online, Spotify followers show something deeper: a genuine, lasting interest in their music.

These are the fans who want to stay updated the moment a new song drops. In this article, we dive into the most followed artists on Spotify – the ones whose music truly keeps listeners coming back. So let’s jump into the extended list of artists with the largest following.

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#	g#		Artist	Followers	Daily	Weekly	artist_spotify_id	Gender	Genre	Country	Language
	1		Arijit Singh	145,503,248	107,781	825,518	4YRxDV8wJFPHPTeXepOstw	Solo - Male	Indian Film Music	India	Hindi
	2		Taylor Swift	137,192,813	54,126	395,633	06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02	Solo - Female	Pop	United States of America	English
	3		Ed Sheeran	120,365,806	12,843	91,031	6eUKZXaKkcviH0Ku9w2n3V	Solo - Male	Pop	United Kingdom	English
	4		Billie Eilish	111,594,128	49,002	361,119	6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH	Solo - Female	Alternative	United States of America	English
	5		Ariana Grande	105,236,184	15,663	109,525	66CXWjxzNUsdJxJ2JdwvnR	Solo - Female	Pop	United States of America	English
	6		The Weeknd	104,745,863	54,679	418,089	1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJ	Solo - Male	Pop	Canada	English
	7		Eminem	100,519,828	31,926	241,337	7dGJo4pcD2V6oG8kP0tJRR	Solo - Male	Hip-hop	United States of America	English
	8		Drake	98,477,857	25,254	194,426	3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4	Solo - Male	Hip-hop	Canada	English
	9		Bad Bunny	95,289,827	52,478	409,387	4q3ewBCX7sLwd24euuV69X	Solo - Male	Reggaeton	Puerto Rico	Spanish
	10		Justin Bieber	82,302,225	18,004	135,436	1uNFoZAHBGtllmzznpCI3s	Solo - Male	Pop	Canada	English
	11		BTS	78,928,142	13,010	97,557	3Nrfpe0tUJi4K4DXYWgMUX	Group - Male	Pop	South Korea	Estonian
	12		Bruno Mars	71,545,733	37,042	271,143	0du5cEVh5yTK9QJze8zA0C	Solo - Male	Pop	United States of America	English
	13		Rihanna	66,969,981	14,738	111,254	5pKCCKE2ajJHZ9KAiaK11H	Solo - Female	Pop	Barbados	English
	14		Adele	64,077,811	17,093	123,123	4dpARuHxo51G3z768sgnrY	Solo - Female	Soul / Motown R&B	United Kingdom	English
	15		A.R. Rahman	63,195,921	48,390	370,623	1mYsTxnqsietFxj1OgoGbG	Solo - Male	Indian Film Music	India	Tamil
	16		Coldplay	58,297,525	15,796	113,588	4gzpq5DPGxSnKTe4SA8HAU	Group - Male	Alternative	United Kingdom	English
	17		Imagine Dragons	57,197,422	8,340	59,673	53XhwfbYqKCa1cC15pYq2q	Group - Male	Alternative	United States of America	English
	18		Karol G	56,664,883	26,500	184,854	790FomKkXshlbRYZFtlgla	Solo - Female	Reggaeton	Colombia	Spanish
	19		Queen	53,861,773	9,492	62,804	1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d	Group - Male	Rock	United Kingdom	English
	20		Blackpink	53,791,692	10,555	75,938	41MozSoPIsD1dJM0CLPjZF	Group - Female	K-Pop	South Korea	Korean
	21		Selena Gomez	52,517,112	6,026	47,971	0C8ZW7ezQVs4URX5aX7Kqx	Solo - Female	Pop	United States of America	English
	22		Pritam	50,328,344	56,872	432,882	1wRPtKGflJrBx9BmLsSwlU	Solo - Male	Indian Film Music	India	Hindi
	23		XXXTentacion	50,069,634	12,622	90,509	15UsOTVnJzReFVN1VCnxy4	Solo - Male	Hip-hop	United States of America	English
	24		Neha Kakkar	48,353,949	2,912	20,380	5f4QpKfy7ptCHwTqspnSJI	Solo - Female	Indian Film Music	India	Hindi
	25		Lana Del Rey	47,364,343	28,800	219,392	00FQb4jTyendYWaN8pK0wa	Solo - Female	Alternative	United States of America	English
			Artist					Gender	Genre	Country	Language

Most followed artists – How it works

Our most followed artists is updated daily, just like the statistic is on Spotify.

To build this list, we automatically retrieve the information for more than 30,000 major artists. We will be adding newly increasing stars to make sure we remain comprehensive.

Having a lot of followers doesn’t guarantee your releases will always be hits. If you’ve got 20, 30, 50 million subscribers though, it’s safe to say you’ll remain relevant for many years.

So, whether it comes from new songs or past hits, these most followed artists are the ones which are building the most robust discographies, ultimately climbing up the ladder in our CSPC rankings.

Why followers on Digital Streaming Platforms matter

It’s all about the music

Instead of social media following, what’s really key when gauging the success of a music artist is how many followers they claim inside the music streaming software, with the biggest one being Spotify by some distance.

There, there are no talks or postings from artists. Users follow them mostly because they want to be notified when new music comes out, to represent themselves as fans or to access the artist library more handily.

In all of these cases the conclusion is the same, users following an artist inside a streaming platform is way more likely to consume his music.

The predictive strength of followers

No matter if you are the artist himself, his manager, a label executive or a fan, and even if you are perfectly aware of streaming numbers of the said artist, tracking his followers should still be essential to you.

This is due to the predictive strength of followers, which tells you how many streams an artist is going to have in the future rather than in the past.

In fact, a user hitting the follow button now is telling that he has an active interest in him, that he will engage with his catalog from now on. Data also show that followers will consume music from an artist not just right now, but in the long run.

For popular artists, having a followers count which grows fast means that your upcoming catalog sales are going to be great. In the other side, if hardly anyone new follows an artist, his songs may be on their way to be forgotten.

Followers statistics are just as eye-opening for new artists. If two unknown artists go viral at the same time, check out how many Spotify followers they gain daily to know which one is the most likely to build a career from that point, rather than remaining a one-hit wonder.

How to read the most followed artists list

Here you will find our up to date list of most followed artists on Spotify, a piece of information on how your favorite artist is building momentum in the music industry.

Keep in mind that statistics reflect cumulative followers to date of all artists. It’s also worth noting that Spotify periodically removes churned users from followers counts to keep the data as relevant as it gets. They last did it on October 20, 2023, when Ed Sheeran lost a whopping 1,086,171 followers.

We highly recommend you to use the sorting option to display the highest gainers both daily and weekly. This will tell you just as much if not more than the raw value of total followers to date.

If this virality of artists who are truly growing right now, rather than just a song, is of interest to you, you may as well browse our Viral artists ranking which highlights the biggest risers at the moment.

Most-followers artists’ record holders

As shocking as this can be for westerners, the current #1 singer on Spotify is Indian Bollywood music king Arijit Singh. While Indian artists have a favorable context in this list, as many users tend to use the free tier for 3 months and then create a new account, this lead over gloabl stars is still mind-blogging.

Just like him, American pop icon Taylor Swift has been increasing super fast lately, comfortably claiming the runner up spot, which makes her the highest ranked female star.

Former #1 Ed Sheeran continues to lose steam, but he is still inside the top 3 with heavy numbers. He previously made headlines in July 2022 when he became the first artist to hit 100 million followers, and led the list for many years.

Another former leader is Rihanna, who turned the first artist to reach 10 million in April 2017. Sheeran took over the top after the monster smash of his Divide album that year. Despite her scarce output over the last decade, the Barbadian icon remains close to the top 10.

Ariana Grande also used to lead, but among female artists. Now topped by the aforementioned Taylor Swift and the impressive Billie Eilish, far and away the youngest in the top tier of the list, Grande continues to shine at 5 overall. This top 5 are all over 100 million followers.

The battle is on for the top rapper ranking too, with both Drake and Eminem making the top 10, while Latin king Bad Bunny stands at 9.

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