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Who’s the most popular music artist in the world right now? Check out the cross-platform best-performing artists in October 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 last checked the ranking in July, there’s been a fair amout of movement among the top 10. Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga have entered straight at number one and two, thanks to their new single Die With A Smile, pushing Taylor Swift down to third place. Columbian singer, songwriter KAROL G is another new entry at number eight. Drake, Billie Eilish, Rihanna and Eminem have all dropped in the top ten. The Weeknd, who has new music, and Justin Bieber have both climbed in the ranking. Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande and Bad Bunny have all dropped out of the running.

Any surprises here amongst the most popular artists in 2024?

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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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