List of most-streamed artists on Spotify

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).

The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of July 2020.

Most monthly listeners

Rank	Artist	Listeners per month (millions)	Chg	Ref(s)
1	The Weeknd	63.24		[1]
2	Drake	61.12		[2]
3	Dua Lipa	60.12		[3]
4	J Balvin	58.83		[4]
5	Ariana Grande	54.72		[5]
6	Justin Bieber	54.54		[6]
7	Ed Sheeran	53.29		[7]
8	Khalid	50.71		[8]
9	Taylor Swift	50.65		[9]
10	Marshmello	50.27		[10]
11	Jason Derulo	49.71		[11]
12	Billie Eilish	48.80		[12]
13	Lady Gaga	48.46		[13]
14	Maroon 5	48.24		[14]
15	Juice WRLD	47.50		[15]
16	Travis Scott	47.07		[16]
17	Halsey	46.82		[17]
18	Nicki Minaj	46.76		[18]
19	Bad Bunny	46.39		[19]
20	DaBaby	45.98		[20]
As of August 16, 2020

Most followers

  Also among the 20 most monthly listeners

Rank	Artist	Followers[21] (millions)	Ref(s)
1	Ed Sheeran	68.05	[15]
2	Ariana Grande	49.07	[5]
3	Drake	48.69	[2]
4	Rihanna	38.55	[22]
5	Eminem	37.09	[23]
6	Justin Bieber	36.84	[6]
7	Taylor Swift	31.47	[9]
8	Billie Eilish	31.21	[12]
9	Imagine Dragons	29.04	[24]
10	Shawn Mendes	28.32	[25]
11	Queen	27.93	[26]
12	Post Malone	27.37	[27]
13	Coldplay	26.66	[28]
14	Bruno Mars	26.20	[29]
15	Maroon 5	26.18	[14]
16	Marshmello	25.96	[10]
17	Beyoncé	23.93	[30]
18	Ozuna	23.79	[31]
19	Bad Bunny	23.71	[19]
20	The Weeknd	23.13	[1]
21	Alan Walker	23.12	[32]
22	Adele	22.69	[33]
23	Selena Gomez	22.04	[34]
24	J Balvin	21.65	[4]
25	BTS	21.51	[35]
As of August 15, 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	The Weeknd[37]
October
November
December	Justin Bieber

2016

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

2017

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

2018

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

2019

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

2020

Month	Artist
January	Ed Sheeran[44]
February	Justin Bieber[45]
March
April	The Weeknd
May	Drake
June	The Weeknd
July
August

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	Eminem	Ariana Grande

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

• List of most-streamed songs on Spotify
• List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
• List of most-followed Twitter accounts
• List of most-followed Instagram accounts
• List of most-followed Twitch channels

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