

Indicates peak of most monthly listeners in Spotify history 2015 Month This is a timeline of artists who had the most monthly listeners on Spotify since September 2015, when the feature was made public. The most streamed artists in the first 10 years of the existence of Spotify.īritish rock band Coldplay is the group with the most monthly listeners on Spotify as of May 2023.Īs of May 2023, Canadian singer The Weeknd is the artist with the most monthly listeners on Spotify, while American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the female artist with the most monthly listeners. Number of streams are listed in parenthesis, where available. The podcast represents a confluence of two major cultural forces-hip-hop and podcasting-and perhaps shows the direction Spotify will head in the decade to come.Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny has been the most streamed artist on Spotify for the last three years (2020–2022)

The most popular podcast on Spotify this year was the Joe Budden Podcast with Rory and Mal, in which the rapper Budden discusses hip-hop music and culture he also engaged in high-profile dust-ups on-air, including with Nicki Minaj. There are more than 500,000 podcasts on Spotify, and their podcast audience has grown by more than 50% since the start of the year. While their incorporation of podcasts into music playlists earlier this year drew some blowback, the gamble appears to be paying off. In February, Spotify bought Gimlet Media, a podcasting giant, and positioned itself as a new leader in a rapidly expanding space. The “Wrapped” campaign also reflects another major development in the streaming world: the onset of podcasting. The most streamed track was Sheeran’s “Shape Of You,” followed by Drake, Kyla and Wizkid’s “One Dance” and 21 Savage and Post Malone’s “Rockstar.”


The most streamed artist from 2010-2019 was Drake-with 28 billion streams-followed by Sheeran, Post Malone, Grande and Eminem. And Spotify’s decade-long data only reinforces this trend.
