Who’s the most popular music artist in the world right now? Check out the cross-platform best-performing artists in March 2024.

Here are the artists racking up the most streams and gaining the most new fans across the music world in 2024. 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 check the ranking earlier this year in January, there’s been a fair amount of movement amongst the top 10. Taylor Swift is of course still the number one best-performing artist, after overthrowing Drake last year and continuing her record-breaking, worldwide Eras Tour.

Justin Bieber has shot up from fifth place to second, securing ‘the biggest male artist’ title. Ariana Grande has climbed up two spots, following the release of her seventh studio album Eternal Sunshine. There’s a new entry at number seven from Beyoncé, after releasing two new singles in February.

Drake, Eminem and Bad Bunny have all dropped in the ranking. Nicki Minaj dropped out of the top ten.

Any surprises here amongst the most popular artists in 2024?


The number one biggest artist

1. Taylor Swift

Score: 650K


The number five biggest artist

2. Justin Bieber

Score: 595K


The number four biggest artist

3. The Weeknd

Score: 551K


The number two biggest artist

4. Drake

Score: 545K


The number five biggest artist

5. Ariana Grande

Score: 535K


The number six biggest artist

6. Rihanna

Score: 491K


The number seven biggest artist

7. Beyoncé

Score: 477K


The number seven biggest artist

8. Ed Sheeran

Score: 469K


The number three biggest artist

9. Bad Bunny

Score: 444K


The number eight biggest artist

10. Eminem

Score: 427K


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 2024?


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