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This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of March 2022, Ed Sheeran 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. 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).
Ed Sheeran is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of March 2022[update]
| Rank
|
Artist
|
Monthly listeners
(millions)
|
Chg
|
Ref(s)
|
|---|
| 1
|
Ed Sheeran |
78.98 |
|
[1] |
|---|
| 2
|
The Weeknd |
78.35 |
|
[2] |
|---|
| 3
|
Justin Bieber |
78.12 |
|
[3] |
|---|
| 4
|
Dua Lipa |
66.10 |
|
[4] |
|---|
| 5
|
Taylor Swift |
58.13 |
|
[5] |
|---|
| 6
|
Coldplay |
57.57 |
|
[6] |
|---|
| 7
|
Imagine Dragons |
56.59 |
|
[7] |
|---|
| 8
|
Doja Cat |
56.08 |
|
[8] |
|---|
| 9
|
Eminem |
55.61 |
|
[9] |
|---|
| 10
|
Adele |
54.77 |
|
[10] |
|---|
| 11
|
Ariana Grande |
53.94 |
|
[11] |
|---|
| 12
|
Bruno Mars |
53.81 |
|
[12] |
|---|
| 13
|
Drake |
53.80 |
|
[13] |
|---|
| 14
|
J Balvin |
51.98 |
|
[14] |
|---|
| 15
|
David Guetta |
50.79 |
|
[15] |
|---|
| 16
|
Lil Nas X |
50.33 |
|
[16] |
|---|
| 17
|
Elton John |
49.95 |
|
[17] |
|---|
| 18
|
Kanye West |
48.97 |
|
[18] |
|---|
| 19
|
Rihanna |
48.38 |
|
[19] |
|---|
| 20
|
Billie Eilish |
48.07 |
|
[20] |
|---|
| As of March 11, 2022
|
|---|
Ed Sheeran is the most-followed 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 |
93.75 |
[1] |
|---|
| 2
|
Ariana Grande |
76.94 |
[11] |
|---|
| 3
|
Drake |
61.68 |
[13] |
|---|
| 4
|
Billie Eilish |
58.46 |
[20] |
|---|
| 5
|
Justin Bieber |
57.69 |
[3] |
|---|
| 6
|
Eminem |
53.26 |
[9] |
|---|
| 7
|
Taylor Swift |
50.20 |
[5] |
|---|
| 8
|
Rihanna |
47.54 |
[19] |
|---|
| 9
|
BTS |
46.64 |
[21] |
|---|
| 10
|
Bad Bunny |
44.96 |
[22] |
|---|
| 11
|
Arijit Singh |
43.54 |
[23] |
|---|
| 12
|
The Weeknd |
42.59 |
[2] |
|---|
| 13
|
Queen |
40.16 |
[24] |
|---|
| 14
|
Imagine Dragons |
38.71 |
[7] |
|---|
| 15
|
Bruno Mars |
38.66 |
[12] |
|---|
| 16
|
Shawn Mendes |
36.82 |
[25] |
|---|
| 17
|
Post Malone |
36.17 |
[26] |
|---|
| 18
|
Maroon 5 |
35.50 |
[27] |
|---|
| 19
|
Adele |
35.19 |
[10] |
|---|
| 20
|
XXXTentacion |
35.08 |
[28] |
|---|
| As of March 11, 2022
|
|---|
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
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Drake was the most-streamed artist on Spotify in 2015, 2016 and 2018—the most years of any artist.
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
|
- List of most-followed artists on Spotify
- List of most-streamed songs on Spotify
- List of most-viewed YouTube channels
- List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
- List of most-followed Facebook pages
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- List of most-followed Twitch channels
- List of most-followed Twitter accounts
- List of most-followed Instagram accounts
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