Who are the biggest artists in the world in 2025?
Who’s the most popular music artist in the world right now? Check out the cross-platform best-performing artists in January 2025.
Here are the artists racking up the most streams and gaining the most new fans across the music world in 2025. As an artists gets more follows and listens on Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora, Deezer, SoundCloud and other streaming platforms, and the better they perform on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and across the rest of social media, the closer they get to becoming the biggest artist in the world.
Since we last checked the ranking in October last year, there’s been a fair amount of movement among the top 10. Bruno Mars stays atop the list. Bad Bunny and Ariana Grande have entered straight at number two and six respectively, thanks to Bad Bunny’s new album and the success of the Wicked soundtrack. This has pushed KAROL G and Eminem out of the top ten. Billie Eilish has climbed from sixth position to third. Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Rihanna have all dropped within the top ten.
Any surprises here amongst the most popular artists in 2025?
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The data is based on Chartmetric’s cross platform performance analysis, which takes into account the artist’s overall reach with listeners in terms of listens, views and consumption, and how many followers the artist has in their fanbase across the web.
Who’s your number one artist in 2025?