List of most-streamed artists on Spotify


This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of July 2020, The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a male artist, and Dua Lipa has the most monthly listeners on Spotify by a female artist. Ed Sheeran has the most followers. Since 2013, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake a record three times.

Most monthly listeners

Most followers

Timeline of peak monthly listeners

This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public.

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Most-streamed artists

By year

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

By decade

Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available.

First 10 years