Most popular artists on Spotify (daily update)

How do you know which artists are the most popular on Spotify right now? Monthly listeners hardly tell you the truth of it and Spotify’s popularity index isn’t so easy to read although it’s key to understanding one’s success. Let’s shed some light on popularity on Spotify.

Top 250 most popular artists on Spotify

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g#	Artist	Popularity	Daily Streams	+/-	artist_spotify_id	Country	Genre	Language	Gender
1	Taylor Swift	100	76,048,243	=	06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
2	Drake	96	37,693,139	=	3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4	Canada	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
3	Bad Bunny	95	36,759,143	=	4q3ewBCX7sLwd24euuV69X	Puerto Rico	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Male
4	The Weeknd	95	36,727,812	=	1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJ	Canada	Pop	English	Solo - Male
5	Ariana Grande	94	33,719,125	-1	66CXWjxzNUsdJxJ2JdwvnR	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
6	Kanye West	94	28,373,181	=	5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
7	Metro Boomin	94	26,259,961	+1	0iEtIxbK0KxaSlF7G42ZOp	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
8	Travis Scott	94	22,638,211	=	0Y5tJX1MQlPlqiwlOH1tJY	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
9	Future	94	20,031,867	+1	1RyvyyTE3xzB2ZywiAwp0i	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
10	Beyoncé	92	22,021,608	=	6vWDO969PvNqNYHIOW5v0m	United States of America	R&B	English	Solo - Female
11	Feid	92	0	+1	2LRoIwlKmHjgvigdNGBHNo	Colombia	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Male
12	Lana Del Rey	91	24,820,112	+1	00FQb4jTyendYWaN8pK0wa	United States of America	Alternative	English	Solo - Female
13	Peso Pluma	91	23,915,753	=	12GqGscKJx3aE4t07u7eVZ	Mexico	Regional Mexican	Spanish	Solo - Male
14	SZA	91	21,310,674	=	7tYKF4w9nC0nq9CsPZTHyP	United States of America	R&B	English	Solo - Female
15	Rihanna	91	17,869,834	=	5pKCCKE2ajJHZ9KAiaK11H	Barbados	Pop	English	Solo - Female
16	21 Savage	91	14,401,675	=	1URnnhqYAYcrqrcwql10ft	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
17	Karol G	90	21,794,738	=	790FomKkXshlbRYZFtlgla	Colombia	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Female
18	Eminem	90	17,828,590	=	7dGJo4pcD2V6oG8kP0tJRR	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
19	Kendrick Lamar	90	15,370,743	=	2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
20	Olivia Rodrigo	90	14,078,724	=	1McMsnEElThX1knmY4oliG	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
21	Arijit Singh	89	74,900,817	=	4YRxDV8wJFPHPTeXepOstw	India	Indian Film Music	Hindi	Solo - Male
22	Billie Eilish	89	19,676,179	=	6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH	United States of America	Alternative	English	Solo - Female
23	Dua Lipa	89	18,641,341	+1	6M2wZ9GZgrQXHCFfjv46we	United Kingdom	Pop	English	Solo - Female
24	Justin Bieber	89	17,147,030	=	1uNFoZAHBGtllmzznpCI3s	Canada	Pop	English	Solo - Male
25	Bruno Mars	89	15,196,089	=	0du5cEVh5yTK9QJze8zA0C	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Male
	Artist					Country	Genre	Language	Gender

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Most popular artists – How it works

What does this top mean?

We know that the popularity index is both poorly known and not so user friendly: it’s a 0-to-100 index rather than raw data. It’s based on ongoing streams relative to remaining artists, with the biggest one being rated 100.

Internally though, this index is key as it’s used as part of algorithms which create and update playlists, bringing a huge value for artists. The higher the popularity index of the artist, the more visible they will get on Spotify. It also reflects the number one artists today, with results from the last weeks, as opposed to cumulative to date streams.

Convinced of its importance for a long time, we developed this page to retrieve the top 50 best performers of the platform, but also how many daily streams they recorded. This last statistic, unique online, adds to the popularity index the concrete meaning it lacks.

In general, an artist will need 10 million daily streams to hit a score of 90, about twice as many streams as the global #1 single usually gets. You have read this correctly. An artist scoring 90 is gaining far more streams than the current #1 smash.

As numbers reflect a scale 100 based on the top performer, the score of an artist can go up or down even when they are consistent by themselves. For example, the madness surrounding Taylor Swift in the second half of 2023 pushed artists amassing 10 million streams per day down to roughly 83.

While the exact formula isn’t shared by Spotify, the scale is exponential, with streams doubling every 5 points. It means that an artist scoring 95 gets about twice as many streams as an artist at 90, itself scoring twice as much as an artist at 85.

This indicator ends up showing how healthy a catalog is, something fundamental to become one of the most popular artists on Spotify.

How do we build this top?

The daily streaming total includes streams on which an artist is featured. The page also displays the 1-week evolution of the index.

We may miss the daily streams total for some entries in this list. No worries, this will last only 24 hours in general. More than 1,500 of the biggest stars are tracked to make sure to not miss artists.

Also, at times daily streams can show a negative total, something happening when one or several songs from an artist are made unavailable by Spotify.

Some history & records

Our own history of rating scores dates back to April 2020. Premium users can see former ratings of artists at this link.

As of November 15, 2023, the leader is no other than Taylor Swift. In fact, she took over the top position on March 19, 2023 and never gave it up. Below are all leaders since April 21, 2020.