The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of May 2024, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify, while Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist.[2] 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).
Most-streamed artists
By year
Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.
As of May 2024, the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, while the Canadian singer The Weeknd is the male artist with the most monthly listeners. He also became the first artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify's history, while Taylor Swift became the first female artist to surpass 100 million monthly listeners in Spotify's history.[16]
As of May 2024, English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is the most-followed artist on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-followed female artist.
^From 2019 to 2022, the most streamed artist of the year didn't top the monthly listeners list.
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