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Revision as of 12:40, 22 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 Canada The Weeknd 65.24 Steady [1]
2 Canada Drake 62.22 Steady [2]
3 Colombia J Balvin 57.18 Steady [3]
4 United Kingdom Dua Lipa 56.13 Steady [4]
6 United Kingdom Ed Sheeran 51.54 Steady [5]
7 United States Cardi B 51.15 Increase [6]
8 United States Ariana Grande 50.94 Decrease [7]
5 Canada Justin Bieber 51.94 Decrease [8]
9 United States Khalid 49.39 Steady [9]
10 United States Jason Derulo 48.65 Steady [10]
11 United States Marshmello 48.44 Steady [11]
12 United States Travis Scott 45.88 Increase [12]
13 Trinidad and Tobago Nicki Minaj 45.39 Increase [13]
14 United States Lady Gaga 45.13 Increase [14]
15 United States Post Malone 44.84 Increase [15]
16 United States Maroon 5 44.83 Decrease [16]
17 United Kingdom Harry Styles 44.59 Increase [17]
18 United States Juice WRLD 44.54 Decrease [18]
19 Puerto Rico Ozuna 44.54 Increase [19]
20 Puerto Rico Bad Bunny 44.42 Decrease [20]
As of September 20, 2020

Most followers

  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners
Rank Artist Followers[21]
(millions) 		Ref(s)
1 United Kingdom Ed Sheeran 69.62 [5]
2 United States Ariana Grande 50.47 [7]
3 Canada Drake 49.54 [2]
4 Barbados Rihanna 39.07 [22]
5 United States Eminem 37.93 [23]
6 Canada Justin Bieber 37.70 [8]
7 United States Billie Eilish 32.71 [24]
8 United States Taylor Swift 32.30 [25]
9 United States Imagine Dragons 29.77 [26]
10 Canada Shawn Mendes 28.92 [27]
11 United Kingdom Queen 28.74 [28]
12 United States Post Malone 28.17 [15]
13 United Kingdom Coldplay 27.08 [29]
14 United States Maroon 5 26.84 [13]
15 United States Bruno Mars 26.68 [30]
16 United States Marshmello 26.66 [11]
17 Puerto Rico Bad Bunny 24.67 [20]
18 United States Beyoncé 24.38 [31]
19 Puerto Rico Ozuna 24.27 [19]
20 Canada The Weeknd 24.21 [1]
21 Norway Alan Walker 23.81 [32]
22 United Kingdom Adele 23.22 [33]
23 South Korea BTS 22.79 [34]
24 United States Selena Gomez 22.59 [35]
25 Colombia J Balvin 22.41 [3]
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 Canada The Weeknd[37]
October
November
December Canada Justin Bieber

2016

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

2017

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

2018

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

2019

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

2020

Month Artist
January United Kingdom Ed Sheeran[44]
February Canada Justin Bieber[45]
March
April Canada The Weeknd
May Canada Drake
June Canada 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 14, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Drake". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "J Balvin". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Dua Lipa". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b "Ed Sheeran". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  6. ^ "Cardi B". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Ariana Grande". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Justin Bieber". Spotify. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  9. ^ "Khalid". Spotify. Retrieved September 14, 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. ^ a b "Nicki Minaj". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  14. ^ "Lady Gaga". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  15. ^ a b "Maroon 5". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  16. ^ "Juice WRLD". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  17. ^ "Post Malone". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  18. ^ "Harry Styles". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  19. ^ a b "Ozuna". Spotify. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  20. ^ a b "Bad Bunny". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  21. ^ "Spotify most followed artists". ChartMasters. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  22. ^ "Rihanna". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  23. ^ "Eminem". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  24. ^ "Billie Eilish". Spotify. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  25. ^ "Taylor Swift". Spotify. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  26. ^ "Imagine Dragons". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  27. ^ "Shawn Mendes". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  28. ^ "Queen". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  29. ^ "Coldplay". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  30. ^ "Bruno Mars". Spotify. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  31. ^ "Beyoncé". 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.
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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.
  54. ^ Amy X. Wang (October 10, 2018). "Drake, Ed Sheeran and Eminem Are Spotify's Biggest Artists Ever". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
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