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Revision as of 06:52, 13 September 2020

The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of August 2020.

This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of August 2020, The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a male artist, and Dua Lipa has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a female artist. Ed Sheeran has the most followers. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake a record three times (2015, 2016 and 2018).

Most monthly listeners

Rank Artist Listeners per month
(millions) 		Chg Ref(s)
1 The Weeknd 65.92 Steady [1]
2 Drake 62.73 Steady [2]
3 Dua Lipa 58.42 Steady [3]
4 J Balvin 58.17 Steady [4]
5 Ed Sheeran 52.03 Increase [5]
6 Ariana Grande 51.97 Decrease [6]
7 Justin Bieber 51.35 Decrease [7]
8 Khalid 50.75 Steady [8]
9 Cardi B 49.96 Steady [9]
10 Jason Derulo 49.28 Steady [10]
11 Marshmello 47.53 Steady [11]
12 Travis Scott 46.70 Increase [12]
13 Juice Wrld 46.63 Decrease [13]
14 Post Malone 46.60 Increase [14]
15 Bad Bunny 45.71 Steady [15]
16 Lady Gaga 45.70 Increase [16]
17 Nicki Minaj 45.60 Increase [14]
18 Billie Eilish 45.29 Decrease [17]
19 Harry Styles 45.03 Steady [18]
20 Post Malone 45.29 Decrease [17]
As of September 10, 2020

Most followers

  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners
Rank Artist Followers[19]
(millions) 		Ref(s)
1 Ed Sheeran 69.16 [5]
2 Ariana Grande 50.04 [6]
3 Drake 49.29 [2]
4 Rihanna 38.92 [20]
5 Eminem 37.69 [21]
6 Justin Bieber 37.37 [7]
7 Billie Eilish 32.26 [17]
8 Taylor Swift 32.03 [22]
9 Imagine Dragons 29.56 [23]
10 Shawn Mendes 28.74 [24]
11 Queen 28.51 [25]
12 Post Malone 27.93 [26]
13 Coldplay 26.95 [27]
14 Maroon 5 26.64 [28]
15 Bruno Mars 26.54 [29]
16 Marshmello 26.46 [11]
17 Bad Bunny 24.37 [15]
18 Beyoncé 24.25 [30]
19 Ozuna 24.12 [31]
20 The Weeknd 23.91 [1]
21 Alan Walker 23.58 [32]
22 Adele 23.05 [33]
23 BTS 22.48 [34]
24 Selena Gomez 22.47 [35]
25 J Balvin 22.15 [4]
As of August 29, 2020

Timeline of peak 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.[36]

  Indicates most streamed artist of the year

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd[37]
October
November
December Justin Bieber

2016

Month Artist
January Justin Bieber
February
March
April Rihanna
May Drake[38]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[38]

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[38]
February Ed Sheeran[39]
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2018

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[39]
February
March Drake[40]
April
May
June J Balvin[41]
July Drake[40]
August
September
October
November Selena Gomez
December Ariana Grande[42]

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande[42]
February
March
April
May Khalid[43]
June Ed Sheeran[44]
July
August
September
October
November
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[44]
February Justin Bieber[45]
March
April The Weeknd
May Drake
June The Weeknd
July
August
September

Most-streamed artists

Drake was the most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2015, 2016 and 2018—the most years of any artist.

By year

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Year Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2013[46] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[47] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[48] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[49] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[50] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[51] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[52] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

Decade Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5
2010s[53] Drake (28 billion) Ed Sheeran Post Malone Ariana Grande Eminem

First 10 years

Years Artist ranking
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2008–2018[54] Drake Ed Sheeran Eminem The Weeknd Rihanna Kanye West Coldplay Justin Bieber Calvin Harris Ariana Grande

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "The Weeknd". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Drake". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "Dua Lipa". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "J Balvin". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Ariana Grande". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Justin Bieber". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  8. ^ "Khalid". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  9. ^ "Cardi B". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  10. ^ "Jason Derulo". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Marshmello". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  12. ^ "Travis Scott". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  13. ^ "Juice WRLD". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  14. ^ a b "Maroon 5". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Cite error: The named reference "Nicki Minaj" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  15. ^ a b "Bad Bunny". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  16. ^ "Lady Gaga". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  17. ^ a b c "Billie Eilish". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  18. ^ "Harry Styles". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  19. ^ "Spotify most followed artists". ChartMasters. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  20. ^ "Rihanna". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  21. ^ "Eminem". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  22. ^ "Taylor Swift". Spotify. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  23. ^ "Imagine Dragons". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  24. ^ "Shawn Mendes". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  25. ^ "Queen". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  26. ^ Cite error: The named reference Post Malone was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  27. ^ "Coldplay". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  28. ^ Cite error: The named reference Maroon 5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  29. ^ "Bruno Mars". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  30. ^ "Beyoncé". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  31. ^ "Ozuna". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  32. ^ "Alan Walker". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  33. ^ "Adele". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  34. ^ "BTS". Spotify. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  35. ^ "Selena Gomez". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  36. ^ "Spotify's new About tab reveals artists' monthly listeners". Musically.com. September 17, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  37. ^ "The Weeknd tops Spotify artists chart with 24m listeners". Musically.com. September 17, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
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  39. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran is now officially the biggest artist on Spotify worldwide". Music Business Worldwide. February 17, 2017.
  40. ^ a b "Drake, Ariana Grande top Spotify's year-end charts".
  41. ^ Fernandez, Suzette (June 25, 2018). "J Balvin Is the Most Streamed Artist Worldwide on Spotify, Replacing Drake". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  42. ^ a b Lukarcanin, Emina (November 30, 2018). "Ariana Grande Is the Most Streamed Artist Worldwide On Spotify, Replacing Selena Gomez". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  43. ^ Ingham, Tim (April 28, 2018). "Khalid Just Became The Biggest Artist in the World On Spotify, With Over 50m Monthly Listeners". Music Business worldwide.
  44. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran Nears 70 Million Monthly Listeners on Spotify as 'No. 6' Lands on 800-Plus Playlists". Billboard. July 18, 2019.
  45. ^ "Ahead of the Spotify Awards, which artists on the streaming service have the most listeners?". USA Today. March 5, 2020. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
  46. ^ Rutherford, Kevin (December 3, 2013). "Macklemore's 'Can't Hold Us' Spotify's Most-Streamed Song of 2013". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  47. ^ Luckerson, Victor (December 3, 2014). "These Were Spotify's Most-Streamed Songs This Year". Time. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  48. ^ Brown, Eric Renner (December 1, 2015). "Spotify names Drake most streamed artist in 2015". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  49. ^ Stutz, Colin (December 1, 2016). "Drake & Rihanna Top Spotify's Year-End Lists". Billboard. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  50. ^ Associated Press (December 12, 2017). "Ed Sheeran Tops Spotify's 2017 Most-Streamed List". Billboard. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  51. ^ "Drake, Ariana Grande Top Spotify's Year-End 'Wrapped' Charts". Variety. December 3, 2018. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  52. ^ "Post Malone, Billie Eilish Top Spotify's Year-End 'Wrapped' Charts". Variety. December 2, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  53. ^ Eggertsen, Chris (December 3, 2019). "Drake, Ed Sheeran Are Spotify's Most-Streamed Artists of the Decade". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
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