Rather than Spotify’s monthly listeners, we take a look at the top Spotify songs of all time from artists’ catalogues, as of January 2025.

Monthly listeners are a great way to see which artists are currently popular on the streaming service, whereas this all-time streams list is a useful way to see the most popular artists in the last decade. We’ve also compiled more Spotify top tens such as the most-followed artists on Spotify in 2025, the most-streamed female artists by monthly listeners, most-streamed songs of all time, and the most-streamed songs in a single day – who are the common Spotify top artists that reappear across the lists?

There’s been movement in the top ten most-streamed artists Spotify list since we last checked in October last year, with all of the artists continuing to increase their streams. Unsurprisingly Taylor Swift is still the most-streamed artist of all time. Drake is the most streamed male artist. Post Malone has been knocked off the top ten by Billie Eilish, who also takes the crown as the youngest artist on the list at just 23 years old. Billie Eilish’s new album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT no doubt helped her achieve a spot on the top ten.

An artist’s all-time streams aren’t shared by Spotify with the public so this data comes from ChartMasters, updated daily. ChartMasters explain their methodology. Their data is “based on streams from tracks available inside their personal page’s sections Albums, Singles and Compilations. They are combined together and defined as ‘Lead streams’.” Appears on streams such as featured tracks are not counted towards lead streams or the ranking, but this number is listed. ChartMasters admit the full list of 1,000 artists may not be 100% accurate, but state the top of their list is thorough.

First up is Taylor Swift, with almost 100 billion streams!

The number one most-streamed artist on Spotify

1. Taylor Swift

  • Lead streams: 96,907,821,535
  • Featured streams: 964,818,619
  • Number of tracks: 442

The number one most-streamed artist on Spotify

2. Drake

  • Lead streams: 82,847,792,594
  • Featured streams: 25,388,525,854
  • Number of tracks: 335

The number three most-streamed artist on Spotify

3. Bad Bunny

  • Lead streams: 81,293,486,169
  • Featured streams: 9,250,488,905
  • Number of tracks: 215

The number four most-streamed artist on Spotify

4. The Weeknd

  • Lead streams: 67,719,166,919
  • Featured streams: 7,212,202,940
  • Number of tracks: 240

The number five most-streamed artist on Spotify

5. Ed Sheeran

  • Lead streams: 51,277,319,567
  • Featured streams: 4,121,967,949
  • Number of tracks: 323

The number six most-streamed artist on Spotify

6. Ariana Grande

  • Lead streams: 50,805,575,049
  • Featured streams: 3,335,173,082
  • Number of tracks: 251

The number eight most-streamed artist on Spotify

7. Eminem

  • Lead streams: 48,015,453,793
  • Featured streams: 6,186,859,052
  • Number of tracks: 339

The number seven most-streamed artist on Spotify

8. Justin Bieber

  • Lead streams: 46,416,721,191
  • Featured streams: 14,043,768,871
  • Number of tracks: 227

The number ten most-streamed artist on Spotify

9. Kanye West

  • Lead streams: 44,138,100,609
  • Featured streams: 8,293,882,297
  • Number of tracks: 289

The number ten most-streamed artist on Spotify

10. Billie Eilish

  • Lead streams: 43,620,718,257
  • Featured streams: 556,854
  • Number of tracks: 79

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