List of the most streamed artists on Spotify

This list contains the top 20 artists with the most streams per month, accordingly taken from the Spotify charts in October 2019. Ed Sheeran is currently the artist with the most streams, with more than 71 million monthly listeners.

Most streamed artists

#	Artist	Monthly Listeners (in millions)	country
1.	The Weeknd	60.43	United States
2.	Drake	57.41	Canada
3.	Ariana Grande	56.49	United States
4th	Justin Bieber	56.06	Canada
5.	Dua Lipa	55.15	United Kingdom
6th	Ed Sheeran	53.07	United Kingdom
7th	Lady Gaga	51.80	United States
8th.	J Balvin	50.24	Colombia
9.	Travis Scott	50.21	Canada
10.	Halsey	49.12	United States
11.	Post Malone	48.81	United States
12.	Khalid	48.81	United States
13.	Nicki Minaj	48.00	Trinidad and Tobago
14th	Marshmello	46.80	Canada
15th	DaBaby	45.08	United States
16.	Ozuna	42.80	Puerto Rico
17th	Jason Derulo	42.27	United States
18th	Maroon 5	42.04	United States
19th	Beyonce	41.78	United States
20th	Billie Eilish	41.48	United States

Status: July 18, 2020

June 2019

#	Artist	Monthly Listeners (in millions)	country	Credentials)
1.	The Weeknd	60.09	United States
2.	Drake	59.52	Canada
3.	Camila Cabello	56.07	United States
4th	Khalid	54.05	United States
5.	J Balvin	53.23	Colombia
6th	Travis Scott	50.73	United States
7th	Justin Bieber	48.09	Canada
8th.	Daddy Yankee	42.10	Puerto Rico
9.	Ariana Grande	47.77	United States
10.	Billie Eilish	42.74	United States
11.	Drake	41.25	Canada
12.	The Chainsmokers	38.73	United States
13.	Marshmello	36.46	Canada
14th	Eminem	36.28	United States
15th	Taylor Swift	33.71	United States
16.	Swae Lee	32.84	United States
17th	Bad Bunny	33.86	Puerto Rico
18th	Imagine Dragons	32.97	United States
19th	Katy Perry	32.99	United States
20th	Tones and I	34.09	Australia
As of November 16, 2019

In the Spotify Global Top 200

This list adds up the streams of all songs by an artist in the Spotify Global Top 200. This is less than an artist's total streams.

#	Artist	Total streams (in billions)	country
1.	Drake	12.75	Canada
2.	Ed Sheeran	9.05	United Kingdom
3.	Justin Bieber	8.69	Canada
4th	The Weeknd	5.81	Canada
5.	Post Malone	5.70	United States
6th	J Balvin	5.40	Colombia
7th	The Chainsmokers	5.16	United States
8th.	Kendrick Lamar	4.57	United States
9.	Rihanna	4.49	Barbados
10.	Ozuna	4.41	Puerto Rico
11.	Daddy Yankee	4.38	Puerto Rico
12.	Calvin Harris	4.29	United Kingdom
13.	Future	3.75	United States
14th	Selena Gomez	3.66	United States
15th	Bad Bunny	3.57	Puerto Rico
16.	Ariana Grande	3.46	United States
17th	Nicki Minaj	3.43	Trinidad and Tobago
18th	Sia	3.43	Australia
19th	Khalid	3.40	United States
20th	Imagine Dragons	3.34	United States
Status: July 15, 2018

Most streamed artists each year

In 2014 and 2017, Ed Sheeran was the most streamed artist.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the top-stream artists in 2013.

2017

Ed Sheeran was the top-stream artist in 2017, with 6.3 billion streams.

#	tendency	Artist	country
1.	↑	Ed Sheeran	United Kingdom
2.	↓	Drake	Canada
3.	↑	The Weeknd	Canada
4th	↑	Kendrick Lamar	United States
5.	↑	The Chainsmokers	United States

2016

Drake was the most streamlined artist in 2016, with 4.7 billion streams.

#	tendency	Artist	country
1.	-	Drake	Canada
2.	↑	Justin Bieber	Canada
3.	↑	Rihanna	Barbados
4th	↑	Twenty One Pilots	United States
5.	-	Kanye West	United States

2015

Drake was the most streamlined artist in 2015 with 1.8 billion streams.

#	tendency	Artist	country
1.	↑	Drake	Canada
2.	↓	Ed Sheeran	United Kingdom
3.	↑	The Weeknd	Canada
4th	↑	Maroon 5	United States
5.	↑	Kanye West	United States

2014

Ed Sheeran was the most streamlined artist in 2014, with 860 million streams.

#	tendency	Artist	country
1.	↑	Ed Sheeran	United Kingdom
2.	↑	Eminem	United States
3.	↑	Coldplay	United Kingdom
4th	↑	Calvin Harris	United Kingdom
5.	↑	Katy Perry	United States

2013

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the top-stream artists in 2013.

#	Artist	country
1.	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	United States
2.	Avicii	Sweden
3.	Daft punk	France
4th	Eminem	United States
5.	Imagine Dragons	United States
6th	Jay-Z	United States
7th	Bruno Mars	United States
8th.	Rihanna	Barbados
9.	Calvin Harris	United Kingdom
10.	Drake	Canada

See also

• List of the most streamed songs on Spotify

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spotify. Retrieved July 18, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Ed Sheeran - Spotify Spotify site by Ed Sheeran. Retrieved June 1, 2019
3. ^ Post Malone - Spotify Spotify site from Post Malone. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
4. ↑ Camila Cabello - Spotify Spotify page by Camila Cabello. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
5. ↑ Khalid - Spotify Spotify site from Khalid. Retrieved June 25, 2019
6. ^ J Balvin - Spotify Spotify site by J Balvin. Retrieved June 25, 2019
7. ↑ Shawn Mendes - Spotify Spotify site by Travis Scott. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
8. ↑ Justin Bieber - Spotify Spotify site from Justin Bieber. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
9. ↑ Daddy Yankee - Spotify Spotify page from Daddy Yankee. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
10. ↑ Ariana Grande - Spotify Spotify site by Ariana Grande. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
11. ↑ Billie Eilish - Spotify Spotify site by Billie Eilish. Retrieved June 25, 2019
12. ↑ Drake - Spotify Spotify site by Drake. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
13. ↑ The Chainsmokers - Spotify Spotify site from The Chainsmokers. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
14. ^ Marshmello - Spotify Spotify site from Marshmello. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
15. ↑ Lil Nas X - Spotify Spotify page from Lil Nas X. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
16. ↑ Taylor Swift - Spotify Spotify site by Taylor Swift. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
17. ↑ Swae Lee - Spotify Spotify site by Swae Lee. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
18. ↑ Bad Bunny - Spotify Spotify site from Bad Bunny. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
19. ↑ Imagine Dragons - Spotify Spotify site by Imagine Dragons. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
20. ↑ Katy Perry - Spotify Spotify page by Katy Perry. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
21. ^ Tones and I - Spotify Spotify page by Tones and I. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
22. ↑ Spotify Chart History
23. ↑ Ed Sheeran Tops Spotify's 2017 Most-Streamed List
24. ↑ Drake & Rihanna Top Spotify's Year-End Lists
25. ↑ Drake Is The World's Most Streamed Artist on Spotify for 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2015) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
26. ↑ Ed Sheeran is Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2014
27. ↑ MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS 'MOST STREAMED ACT' OF 2013