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	73,845,857	=	06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
2	Billie Eilish	94	37,541,694	=	6qqNVTkY8uBg9cP3Jd7DAH	United States of America	Alternative	English	Solo - Female
3	Bad Bunny	94	35,929,327	=	4q3ewBCX7sLwd24euuV69X	Puerto Rico	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Male
4	Eminem	94	34,513,452	=	7dGJo4pcD2V6oG8kP0tJRR	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
5	Drake	94	28,320,583	=	3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4	Canada	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
6	The Weeknd	93	31,930,226	=	1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJ	Canada	Pop	English	Solo - Male
7	Travis Scott	92	24,069,925	=	0Y5tJX1MQlPlqiwlOH1tJY	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
8	Kendrick Lamar	92	0	=	2YZyLoL8N0Wb9xBt1NhZWg	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
9	Peso Pluma	91	26,010,346	=	12GqGscKJx3aE4t07u7eVZ	Mexico	Regional Mexican	Spanish	Solo - Male
10	Zach Bryan	91	24,083,779	=	40ZNYROS4zLfyyBSs2PGe2	United States of America	Country	English	Solo - Male
11	Ariana Grande	91	23,195,597	=	66CXWjxzNUsdJxJ2JdwvnR	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
12	Lana Del Rey	91	23,101,261	+1	00FQb4jTyendYWaN8pK0wa	United States of America	Alternative	English	Solo - Female
13	Feid	91	20,677,439	+1	2LRoIwlKmHjgvigdNGBHNo	Colombia	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Male
14	Kanye West	91	20,439,564	+1	5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
15	Morgan Wallen	91	18,884,176	=	4oUHIQIBe0LHzYfvXNW4QM	United States of America	Country	English	Solo - Male
16	Future	91	9,882,532	=	1RyvyyTE3xzB2ZywiAwp0i	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
17	Karol G	90	29,038,765	=	790FomKkXshlbRYZFtlgla	Colombia	Reggaeton	Spanish	Solo - Female
18	Sabrina Carpenter	90	21,649,453	-1	74KM79TiuVKeVCqs8QtB0B	United States of America	Pop	English	Solo - Female
19	Rihanna	90	17,829,012	=	5pKCCKE2ajJHZ9KAiaK11H	Barbados	Pop	English	Solo - Female
20	Post Malone	90	17,418,711	=	246dkjvS1zLTtiykXe5h60	United States of America	Hip-hop	English	Solo - Male
21	Arijit Singh	89	22,451,907	=	4YRxDV8wJFPHPTeXepOstw	India	Indian Film Music	Hindi	Solo - Male
22	Coldplay	89	21,247,692	=	4gzpq5DPGxSnKTe4SA8HAU	United Kingdom	Alternative	English	Group - Male
23	David Guetta	89	18,428,647	=	1Cs0zKBU1kc0i8ypK3B9ai	France	Electronic	English	Solo - Male
24	Junior H	89	17,752,128	=	7Gi6gjaWy3DxyilpF1a8Is	Mexico	Regional Mexican	Spanish	Solo - Male
25	Rauw Alejandro	89	17,499,917	+1	1mcTU81TzQhprhouKaTkpq	Puerto Rico	Reggaeton	Spanish	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.