As of January 2024, The Weeknd stays strong as the most-streamed song of all-time on Spotify, with almost 4 billion streams!

Recently we’ve been looking at Spotify’s most followed artists and those with the most monthly listeners. Spotify keep this streaming data public and you can find a breakdown of the top 100 most-streamed songs, as well as other listening data on Wikipedia here.

Since 31 December 2022, The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights is the most-streamed song of all time on Spotify. The synth-pop track was released just over four years ago and has since pulled in almost 4 billion plays, above Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, with 3.7 billion streams, which previously held the position for a record 1,928 days (over five years!). These two tracks, along with Lewis Capaldi and Post Malone & Swae Lee are the only four songs on Spotify to reach 3 billion streams.

At number 3 is Tones And I who takes the top spot for the most streamed track by a female artist. Harry Styles with As It Was is the newest release on the top ten, launching on April 2022.

1. Blinding Lights

The Weeknd

3.985 billion streams

Release date: 29 November 2019


2. Shape of You

Ed Sheeran

3.738 billion streams

Release date: 6 January 2017


3. Someone You Loved

Lewis Capaldi

3.139 billion streams

Release date: 8 November 2018


4. Sunflower – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Post Malone & Swae Lee

3.090 billion streams

Release date: 18 October 2018


5. Dance Monkey

Tones And I

2.967 billion streams

Release date: 10 May 2019


The number six most streamed song on Spotify

6. Starboy

The Weeknd

2.931 billion streams

Release date: 21 September 2016


The number seven most streamed song on Spotify

7. As It Was

Harry Styles

2.926 billion streams

Release date: 1 April 2022


8. One Dance

Drake, WizKid & Kyla

2.922 billion streams

Release date: 5 April 2016


The number nine most streamed song on Spotify

9. STAY (with Justin Bieber)

The Kid LAROI

2.896 billion streams

Release date: 9 July 2021


10. rockstar (feat. 21 Savage)

Post Malone

2.846 billion streams

Release date: 15 September 2017


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