Who’s the most popular music artist in the world right now? Check out the cross-platform best-performing artists in May 2022.

Here are the artists racking up the most streams and gaining the most new fans across the music world in 2022. 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.

Justin Bieber takes the top spot, with millions of followers across socials and billions of plays on streaming services. The most popular female artist currently goes to Taylor Swift, while BTS are unsurprisingly the most popular band.

Any surprises here amongst the most popular artists in 2022?

The number one biggest artist

1. Justin Bieber

The number two most played Spotify artist

2. Bad Bunny

8 Ed Sheeran

3. Ed Sheeran

The number four biggest artist

4. Drake

The number two biggest artist

5. The Weeknd

The number six biggest artist

6. BTS

The number eight biggest artist

7. Taylor Swift

The number eight most-followed Spotify artist

8. Harry Styles

The number ten biggest artist

9. Rihanna

The number nine biggest artist

10. Ariana Grande

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.

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