The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of February 2024, Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed female artist. 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.

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parentheses, where available.

First 10 years

The most streamed artists in the first 10 years of the existence of Spotify.

Most monthly listeners

As of February 2024, Canadian singer the Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the female artist with the most monthly listeners. The Weeknd 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.^[17]

Rank	Artist	Monthly listeners (millions)	Chg	Ref(s)
1	The Weeknd	116.87		[18]
2	Taylor Swift	104.86		[19]
3	Drake	84.76		[20]
4	Rihanna	83.54		[21]
5	Ariana Grande	81.30		[22]
6	Justin Bieber	78.33		[23]
7	Bruno Mars	75.15		[24]
8	Dua Lipa	74.12		[25]
9	Coldplay	74.11		[26]
10	Ed Sheeran	72.65		[27]
11	Kanye West	71.30		[28]
12	Eminem	71.23		[29]
13	Bad Bunny	71.05		[30]
14	David Guetta	70.86		[31]
15	Marshmello	67.47		[32]
16	SZA	67.02		[33]
17	Doja Cat	67.02		[34]
18	Billie Eilish	67.02		[35]
19	21 Savage	66.29		[36]
20	Travis Scott	64.93		[37]
21	Maroon 5	62.50		[38]
22	Calvin Harris	62.16		[39]
23	Miley Cyrus	60.58		[40]
24	Olivia Rodrigo	59.82		[41]
25	Post Malone	59.62		[42]
26	Imagine Dragons	59.49		[43]
27	Nicki Minaj	59.36		[44]
28	Peso Pluma	59.19		[45]
29	Shakira	58.79		[46]
30	Katy Perry	58.54		[47]
31	Lana Del Rey	57.53		[48]
32	Lady Gaga	57.23		[49]
33	Jack Harlow	57.11		[50]
34	Tate McRae	57.03		[51]
35	Adele	56.75		[52]
36	Harry Styles	54.76		[53]
37	Metro Boomin	53.96		[54]
38	Sam Smith	52.69		[55]
39	Kendrick Lamar	52.21		[56]
40	Future	51.74		[57]
41	Arctic Monkeys	51.35		[58]
42	Sia	51.02		[59]
43	J Balvin	50.82		[60]
44	Queen	50.41		[61]
45	Karol G	50.32		[62]
46	Elton John	49.69		[63]
47	Chris Brown	49.38		[64]
48	Daddy Yankee	48.44		[65]
49	Beyoncé	48.40		[66]
50	Selena Gomez	48.34		[67]
As of February 7, 2024

Most-followed artists

As of February 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. Arijit Singh is the most followed non-English singing artist.

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.^[119]

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024