List of most-streamed artists on Spotify

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The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist,^[2] and Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.^[a] Since 2012, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (2020–2022). Swift is the only female artist to have topped the list (2023–2024).

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify's history.

Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history.

South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history.^[1]

Most-streamed artists

By year

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

Year	Artist ranking
	1	2	3	4	5
2013[3]	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Avicii	Daft Punk	Eminem	Imagine Dragons
2014[4]	Ed Sheeran (860 million)	Eminem	Coldplay	Calvin Harris	Katy Perry
2015[5]	Drake (1.8 billion)	Ed Sheeran	The Weeknd	Maroon 5	Kanye West
2016[6]	Drake (4.7 billion)	Justin Bieber	Rihanna	Twenty One Pilots	Kanye West
2017[7]	Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion)	Drake	The Weeknd	Kendrick Lamar	The Chainsmokers
2018[8]	Drake (8.2 billion)	Post Malone	XXXTentacion	J Balvin	Ed Sheeran
2019[9]	Post Malone (6.5 billion)	Billie Eilish	Ariana Grande	Ed Sheeran	Bad Bunny
2020[10]	Bad Bunny (8.3 billion)	Drake	J Balvin	Juice Wrld	The Weeknd
2021[11]	Bad Bunny (9.1 billion)	Taylor Swift	BTS	Drake	Justin Bieber
2022[12]	Bad Bunny (18.5 billion)	Taylor Swift	Drake	The Weeknd	BTS
2023[13]	Taylor Swift (26.1 billion)	Bad Bunny	The Weeknd	Drake	Peso Pluma
2024[14]	Taylor Swift (26.6 billion)	The Weeknd	Bad Bunny	Drake	Billie Eilish

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

Decade	Artist ranking
	1	2	3	4	5
2010s[15]	Drake (28 billion)	Ed Sheeran	Post Malone	Ariana Grande	Eminem

First 10 years

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

Years	Artist ranking
	1	2	3	4	5
2008–2018[16]	Drake	Ed Sheeran	Eminem	The Weeknd	Rihanna

Most monthly listeners

As of March 2025, American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the most monthly listeners. He is followed by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, who was the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was the first female artist and second overall.^[17] American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was the third and youngest artist to achieve the feat.^[18] American rapper Kendrick Lamar is the latest artist and first rapper to both achieve the feat and surpass the 110 million mark. British band Coldplay hold the record for groups at 96 million monthly listeners and are the first in their category to reach the 60, 70, 80 and 90 million marks.^[19]

Rank	Artist	Monthly listeners (millions)	Chg	Ref(s).
1	Bruno Mars	149.82		[20]
2	The Weeknd	126.07		[21]
3	Lady Gaga	124.43		[22]
4	Kendrick Lamar	110.15		[23]
5	Billie Eilish	107.92		[24]
6	SZA	97.51		[25]
7	Coldplay	92.70		[26]
8	Bad Bunny	91.67		[27]
9	Rihanna	91.44		[28]
10	Taylor Swift	87.41		[29]
11	Ariana Grande	83.12		[30]
12	Justin Bieber	81.92		[31]
13	Drake	80.09		[32]
14	Travis Scott	75.30		[33]
15	Eminem	74.49		[34]
16	Ed Sheeran	74.61		[35]
17	David Guetta	74.45		[36]
18	Sabrina Carpenter	72.44		[37]
19	Post Malone	69.57		[38]
20	Kanye West	67.64		[39]
21	Maroon 5	65.79		[40]
22	Rosé	64.86		[41]
23	Dua Lipa	64.45		[42]
24	J Balvin	64.39		[43]
25	Calvin Harris	62.10		[44]
26	Lana Del Rey	61.79		[45]
27	Shakira	61.56		[46]
28	Adele	60.80		[47]
29	Katy Perry	60.80		[48]
30	Future	60.44		[49]
31	Beyoncé	60.14		[50]
32	Sia	59.57		[51]
33	Imagine Dragons	58.53		[52]
34	Sam Smith	57.98		[53]
35	Doja Cat	57.45		[54]
36	Pitbull	56.13		[55]
37	Miley Cyrus	55.26		[56]
38	Karol G	54.75		[57]
39	Playboi Carti	54.39		[58]
40	Arctic Monkeys	54.10		[59]
41	Rauw Alejandro	53.78		[60]
42	Chris Brown	53.26		[61]
43	Marshmello	53.17		[62]
44	Lil Wayne	52.85		[63]
45	Daddy Yankee	52.13		[64]
46	OneRepublic	51.39		[65]
47	Tyler, the Creator	51.02		[66]
48	Khalid	50.55		[67]
49	Gracie Abrams	50.55		[68]
50	Teddy Swims	50.46		[69]
As of February 23, 2025

Most-followed artists

Indian playback singer Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist on Spotify.

As of February 2025, Indian playback singer Arijit Singh is the most-followed artist and Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist on Spotify.^[70]

Rank	Artist[71][72]	Followers (millions)	Ref(s).
1	Arijit Singh	138	[73]
2	Taylor Swift	132.9	[74]
3	Ed Sheeran	119.1	[75]
4	Billie Eilish	107.8	[76]
5	Ariana Grande	103.8	[77]
6	The Weeknd	100.4	[78]
7	Eminem	97.7	[79]
8	Drake	96.3	[80]
9	Bad Bunny	91.3	[81]
10	Justin Bieber	80.9	[82]
11	BTS	77.9	[83]
12	Bruno Mars	68.2	[84]
13	Rihanna	65.6	[85]
14	Adele	62.6	[86]
15	A.R. Rahman	59.9	[87]
16	Coldplay	56.8	[88]
17	Imagine Dragons	56.4	[89]
18	Karol G	54.9	[90]
19	Blackpink	53	[91]
20	Queen	53	[92]
21	Selena Gomez	51.9	[93]
22	XXXTentacion	49.1	[94]
23	Neha Kakkar	48.1	[95]
24	Post Malone	46.5	[96]
25	Pritam	46.3	[97]
26	Dua Lipa	45.5	[98]
27	Lana Del Rey	44.9	[99]
28	Shawn Mendes	44.4	[100]
29	Maroon 5	44.1	[101]
30	Olivia Rodrigo	43.9	[102]
31	Anuel AA	40.6	[103]
32	Alan Walker	40.2	[104]
33	Beyoncé	39.7	[105]
34	Sidhu Moosewala	39.6	[106]
35	One Direction	38.7	[107]
36	Juice Wrld	38.7	[108]
37	Kendrick Lamar	38.2	[109]
38	Ozuna	38.1	[110]
39	J Balvin	37.9	[111]
40	Travis Scott	37.1	[112]
41	Anirudh Ravichander	36.8	[113]
42	Shakira	36.7	[114]
43	Daddy Yankee	36.5	[115]
44	Marília Mendonça	36.3	[116]
45	Katy Perry	36.1	[117]
46	Maluma	36	[118]
47	Lady Gaga	35.1	[119]
48	Michael Jackson	34.7	[120]
49	Camila Cabello	34.6	[121]
50	Marshmello	34.1	[122]
As of 23 February 2025

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars is the artist with the highest recorded number of monthly listeners.

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.^[123]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year^[b]

  Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history^[124]

2015

Month	Artist
September	The Weeknd[125]
October
November	Justin Bieber[126]
December

2016

Month	Artist
January	Justin Bieber[127]
February
March
April	Rihanna[128]
May	Drake[129]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December	The Weeknd[129]

2017

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd[129]
February	Ed Sheeran[130]
March
April	The Weeknd
May
June
July	Daddy Yankee[131]
August	The Weeknd
September	Ed Sheeran[132]
October
November
December

2018

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd
February
March
April
May	Drake[133]
June	J Balvin[134]
July	The Weeknd
August
September
October
November	Ariana Grande[135]
December

2019

Month	Artist
January	Ariana Grande[136]
February	The Weeknd
March	Ariana Grande[137]
April	Khalid[138]
May
June	The Weeknd
July	Ed Sheeran[139]
August	The Weeknd
September
October	Ed Sheeran[140]
November	The Weeknd
December

2020

Month	Artist
January	Ed Sheeran[139]
February	Justin Bieber[141]
March
April	The Weeknd[142]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Ariana Grande[143]
December

2021

Month	Artist
January	Justin Bieber[144]
February	The Weeknd[145]
March
April	Justin Bieber[146]
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2022

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd[147]
February
March	Ed Sheeran[148]
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Taylor Swift[149]
December	The Weeknd[150]

2023

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd[151]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November	Taylor Swift[152]
December

2024

Month	Artist
January	The Weeknd[153]
February
March
April
May
June
July
August	Billie Eilish[154]
September	The Weeknd[155]
October
November	Bruno Mars[156]
December

2025

Month	Artist
January	Bruno Mars
February

See also

• List of Spotify streaming records
• List of most-viewed YouTube channels
• List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
• List of most-followed Facebook pages
• List of most-followed TikTok accounts
• List of most-followed Twitch channels
• List of most-followed Twitter accounts
• List of most-followed Instagram accounts

Notes

1. Only lead streams are counted and features are excluded, as per Billboard'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000B-QINU`"' and Digital Music News.'"`UNIQ--ref-0000000C-QINU`"'
2. For the years 2019 to 2022, and 2024, the most streamed artist of the year did not top the monthly listeners list.