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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 January 2022, The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a male artist, and Dua Lipa has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist. Ed Sheeran is the most-followed male artist, and Ariana Grande is the most-followed female artist. 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

The Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of January 2022
Rank Artist Monthly listeners
(millions) 		Chg Ref(s)
1 The Weeknd 85.97 Steady [1]
2 Justin Bieber 79.13 Steady [2]
3 Ed Sheeran 76.01 Steady [3]
4 Dua Lipa 67.75 Steady [4]
5 Adele 59.42 Steady [5]
6 Coldplay 57.41 Steady [6]
7 Doja Cat 55.67 Increase [7]
8 Ariana Grande 55.60 Decrease [8]
9 Imagine Dragons 54.90 Steady [9]
10 Bruno Mars 53.98 Steady [10]
11 Taylor Swift 53.30 Steady [11]
12 Drake 53.09 Steady [12]
13 Elton John 51.98 Steady [13]
14 Lil Nas X 51.70 Steady [14]
15 J Balvin 51.30 Steady [15]
16 The Kid Laroi 49.74 Increase [16]
17 David Guetta 49.68 Decrease [17]
18 Billie Eilish 49.52 Steady [18]
19 Post Malone 48.91 Steady [19]
20 Maroon 5 47.14 Steady [20]
As of January 29, 2022

Most followers

Ed Sheeran is the most-followed male artist on Spotify
Ariana Grande is the most-followed female artist on Spotify
  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners
Rank Artist Followers
(millions) 		Ref(s)
1 Ed Sheeran 91.60 [3]
2 Ariana Grande 75.20 [8]
3 Drake 60.50 [12]
4 Billie Eilish 56.14 [18]
5 Justin Bieber 55.96 [2]
6 Eminem 51.69 [21]
7 Taylor Swift 48.43 [11]
8 Rihanna 46.85 [22]
9 BTS 44.88 [23]
10 Bad Bunny 42.85 [24]
11 The Weeknd 41.22 [1]
12 Arijit Singh 41.05 [25]
13 Queen 39.38 [26]
14 Imagine Dragons 37.98 [9]
15 Bruno Mars 37.54 [10]
16 Shawn Mendes 36.27 [27]
17 Post Malone 35.70 [19]
18 Maroon 5 34.93 [20]
19 XXXTentacion 34.20 [28]
20 Coldplay 33.80 [6]
As of January 28, 2022

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

Justin Bieber is the artist with the highest peaking monthly listeners in Spotify history

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.[29]

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

2015

Month Artist
September The Weeknd[30]
October
November
December N/A

2016

Month Artist
January N/A
February
March
April Rihanna[31]
May Drake[31]
June
July
August
September
October
November
December The Weeknd[31]

2017

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[31]
February Ed Sheeran[32]
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

2018

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[32]
February
March Drake[33]
April
May
June J Balvin[34]
July Drake[33]
August
September
October
November Selena Gomez[35]
December Ariana Grande[35]

2019

Month Artist
January Ariana Grande[35]
February
March
April
May Khalid[36]
June Ed Sheeran[37]
July
August
September
October
November
December

2020

Month Artist
January Ed Sheeran[37]
February Justin Bieber[38]
March
April N/A
May
June
July
August The Weeknd[39]
September N/A
October
November
December

2021

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

2022

Month Artist
January The Weeknd[43]

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[44] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Avicii Daft Punk Eminem Imagine Dragons
2014[45] Ed Sheeran (860 million) Eminem Coldplay Calvin Harris Katy Perry
2015[46] Drake (1.8 billion) Ed Sheeran The Weeknd Maroon 5 Kanye West
2016[47] Drake (4.7 billion) Justin Bieber Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Kanye West
2017[48] Ed Sheeran (6.3 billion) Drake The Weeknd Kendrick Lamar The Chainsmokers
2018[49] Drake (8.2 billion) Post Malone XXXTentacion J Balvin Ed Sheeran
2019[50] Post Malone (6.5 billion) Billie Eilish Ariana Grande Ed Sheeran Bad Bunny
2020[51] Bad Bunny (8.3 billion) Drake J Balvin Juice Wrld The Weeknd
2021[52] Bad Bunny (9.1 billion) Taylor Swift BTS Drake Justin Bieber

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

See also

References

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