Rather than Spotify’s monthly listeners, we take a look at the top Spotify songs of all time from artists’ catalogues, as of April 2024.

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 2024, 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 January earlier this year, Taylor Swift over taking Drake in the top position, thanks to her recent successful albums and global Eras Tour. Drake still leads the pack as the most-followed male artist. BTS are the most-streamed band.

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 over 77 billion streams!

The number one most-streamed artist on Spotify

1. Taylor Swift

  • Lead streams: 77,558,455,706
  • Featured streams: 694,030,573
  • Number of tracks: 436
The number one most-streamed artist on Spotify

2. Drake

  • Lead streams: 74,706,786,894
  • Featured streams: 22,602,812,584
  • Number of tracks: 323
The number two most-streamed artist on Spotify

3. Bad Bunny

  • Lead streams: 70,852,425,386
  • Featured streams: 8,665,463,923
  • Number of tracks: 191
The number four most-streamed artist on Spotify

4. The Weeknd

  • Lead streams: 56,220,309,818
  • Featured streams: 8,113,043,501
  • Number of tracks: 228
The number five most-streamed artist on Spotify

5. Ed Sheeran

  • Lead streams: 47,826,902,612
  • Featured streams: 3,740,666,115
  • Number of tracks: 298
The number six most-streamed artist on Spotify

6. Ariana Grande

  • Lead streams: 43,665,198,172
  • Featured streams: 3,117,436,262
  • Number of tracks: 214
The number seven most-streamed artist on Spotify

7. Justin Bieber

  • Lead streams: 42,034,941,744
  • Featured streams: 12,843,302,466
  • Number of tracks: 228
The number eight most-streamed artist on Spotify

8. Eminem

  • Lead streams: 41,648,385,634
  • Featured streams: 5,374,789,283
  • Number of tracks: 313
The number nine most-streamed artist on Spotify

9. Post Malone

  • Lead streams: 38,554,744,981
  • Featured streams: 3,492,302,709
  • Number of tracks: 119
The number ten most-streamed artist on Spotify

10. BTS

  • Lead streams: 38,103,500,881
  • Featured streams: 745,583,703
  • Number of tracks: 274

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