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This list contains the most-streamed artists on the

audio streaming platform Spotify. As of January
2021, Justin Bieber has the most monthly listeners
on Spotify by a male artist, and Ariana Grande has
the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a female
artist. Ed Sheeran has the most followers by a male
artist, and Ariana Grande has the most followers by
a 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

Most followers

Timeline of peak monthly

listeners

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.

Artist ranking
Year
1 2 3 4

Macklemore
2013[46] & Ryan Avicii Daft Punk Eminem
Lewis

Ed Sheeran Calvin
2014[47] Eminem Coldplay
(860 million) Harris

Drake (1.8 Ed Maroon

2015[48] The Weeknd
billion) Sheeran 5

Twenty
Drake (4.7 Justin
2016[49] Rihanna One
billion) Bieber
Pilots

Ed Sheeran Kendric
2017[50] Drake The Weeknd
(6.3 billion) Lamar

Drake (8.2 Post

2018[51] XXXTentacion J Balvin
billion) Malone

Post
Billie Ariana Ed
2019[52] Malone (6.5
Eilish Grande Sheera
billion)

Bad Bunny Juice

2020[53] Drake J Balvin
(8.3 billion) Wrld

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where

available.

Artist ranking
Decade
1 2 3 4 5

Drake Ed Post Ariana

2010s[54] Eminem
(28 billion) Sheeran Malone Grande

All time

Total Over Over

Rank Artist Streams[55]
tracks 1B 100M

1 Drake 35,726,182,892 222 3 92

Ed
2 27,139,822,009 181 5 49
Sheeran

Post
3 22,356,118,236 63 8 47
Malone

Ariana
4 22,187,223,642 166 2 52
Grande

5 Eminem 21,278,762,378 270 1 49

Bad
6 20,250,420,637 136 1 59
Bunny

The
7 19,762,125,467 127 5 48
Weeknd

8 J Balvin 18,759,730,157 197 2 49

Justin
9 18,720,195,590 181 4 39
Bieber

Shawn
10 18,038,709,781 135 6 31
Mendes
As of January 4, 2021

See also

References

Last edited 2 hours ago by Ïvana

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