List of most-streamed artists on Spotify

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This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of August 2024, The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a male artist, Taylor Swift has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist, and Coldplay have the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a group. Ed Sheeran is the most-followed male artist, and Ariana Grande is the most-followed female artist. Drake is the most-streamed artist of all time, and Taylor Swift is the most-streamed female artist of all time. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so on consecutive years (2020-2022).

Most monthly listeners

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The Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of August 2024
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Taylor Swift is the female artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of August 2024
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Coldplay are the group with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of August 2024
Rank Artist Monthly listeners
(millions)		 Chg Ref(s)
1 The Weeknd 95.92 Steady [1]
2 Ed Sheeran 81.13 Steady [2]
3 Taylor Swift 80.72 Steady [3]
4 Justin Bieber 77.99 Decrease [4]
5 Sam Smith 74.63 Steady [5]
6 David Guetta 73.33 Steady [6]
7 Ariana Grande 71.23 Decrease [7]
8 Rihanna 69.34 Steady [8]
9 Drake 69.27 Steady [9]
10 Bad Bunny 68.16 Steady [10]
11 Shakira 66.73 Increase [11]
12 Harry Styles 65.82 Steady [12]
13 Eminem 65.15 Increase [13]
14 Coldplay 64.26 Decrease [14]
15 Dua Lipa 63.38 Steady [15]
16 SZA 63.34 Increase [16]
17 Lady Gaga 59.87 Steady [17]
18 21 Savage 58.82 Increase [18]
19 Elton John 57.46 Decrease [19]
20 Imagine Dragons 57.05 Steady [20]
21 Bruno Mars 56.17 Steady [21]
22 Sia 55.09 Decrease [22]
23 Chris Brown 54.31 Steady [23]
24 Maroon 5 53.01 Steady [24]
25 Bebe Rexha 52.98 Steady [25]
26 Doja Cat 52.46 Steady [26]
27 Selena Gomez 52.39 Increase [27]
28 Miley Cyrus 52.04 Increase [28]
29 Billie Eilish 51.24 Increase [29]
30 Katy Perry 51.15 Decrease [30]
As of January 20, 2023

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

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The Weeknd is the artist with the highest peaking monthly listeners in Spotify history[31]

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.[32]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year
  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd[33]
October
November
December

2016

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[33]
February Rihanna[34]
March
April Drake[34]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[34]

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[34]
February Ed Sheeran[35]
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2018

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[35]
February
March Drake[36]
April
May
June J Balvin[37]
July Drake[36]
August
September
October
November Selena Gomez[38]
December Ariana Grande[38]

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande[38]
February
March
April
May Khalid[39]
June Ed Sheeran[40]
July
August
September
October
November
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[40]
February Justin Bieber[41]
March
April The Weeknd[42]
May N/A
June N/A
July The Weeknd[43]
August
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December Ariana Grande[44]

2021

Month Artist
January N/A
February The Weeknd[45]
March
April Justin Bieber[46]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[47]

2022

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[48]
February
March Ed Sheeran[49]
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November Taylor Swift[50]
December The Weeknd[51]

2023

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[31]

Most-streamed artists

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Bad Bunny (top) and Drake (bottom) are the only artists to top the most-streamed artists list in three different years as of 2024.

By year

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Year Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2013[52] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[53] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[54] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[55] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[56] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[57] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[58] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny
2020[59] Bad Bunny (8.3 billion) Drake J Balvin Juice Wrld The Weeknd
2021[60] Bad Bunny (9.1 billion) Taylor Swift BTS Drake Justin Bieber
2022[61] Bad Bunny (18.5 billion) Taylor Swift Drake The Weeknd BTS

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Decade Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2010s[62] Drake (28 billion) Ed Sheeran Post Malone Ariana Grande Eminem

First 10 years

The most steamed artists in the first 10 years of the existence of Spotify.

Years Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2008-2018[63] Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna

All time

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

All time Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
All time[64][65] Drake (50.9 billion) Bad Bunny (45.8 billion) Ed Sheeran (38.5 billion) The Weeknd (35.5 billion) Taylor Swift (33.2 billion)

See also

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