Streaming Superstars: The Most Streamed Artists On Spotify

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• Lana Del Rey

• Karol G

• SZA

• Travis Scott

• Feid

• Peso Pluma

• Drake

• The Weeknd

• Bad Bunny

• Taylor Swift

Highlights

• Spotify is currently the most popular music streaming app, with 574 million users and over 226 million customers subscribed to its paid tier.
• Lana Del Rey, Karol G, SZA, Travis Scott, Feid, Peso Pluma, Drake, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, and Taylor Swift are among the most streamed artists on Spotify.
• Taylor Swift is the most streamed artist on Spotify for 2023, with 26.1 billion streams since January 1st, 2023.

It's almost impossible to think about streaming platforms without first thinking of Spotify.

In 2006, two Swedish friends, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, established what is now the well-known music streaming service, with both free and paid tiers.

Today, Spotify is one of the top streaming music platforms, notable not only for its extensive music archive but also for its customized playlists, which allow for a unique user experience irrespective of genre. Spotify is also available on a variety of devices, ensuring it can be used at home, in the car, at work, and on trips.

Spotify is an industry juggernaut currently valued at $38.83 billion (as of January 11th), making it the 471st most valuable company - up from 482nd place just days prior, and up over a billion dollars in value since January 5th.

The company has become the most popular music streaming app, surpassing competitors like Tidal, with 574 million users and over 226 million customers subscribed to its paid tier.

Spotify pays artists an average of between $0.003 and $0.005 per single stream. That might seem inconsequential by itself, but fractional earnings can amount to a lot more, considering these artists get millions and billions of streams.

Based on publicly available information, it seems that the amount an artist could earn from Spotify varies, depending on factors such as the listener's subscription tier, location, and frequency of play.

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All figures on this list were based on information available at the time of publication; numbers like Spotify's valuation and an artists number of monthly listeners can and do fluctuate on a daily (or even hourly) basis.

Let's take a look at the most streamed artists on Spotify today.

10 Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 56.5 Million

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, an American singer and songwriter better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is among the top ten most listened to artists on Spotify in early 2024.

Lana Del Rey is most known for her melancholy musical style and her "cinematic" vibe:

Back in 2011, Lana released a music video for one of her tracks, "Video Games," which quickly became an internet phenomenon.

Consequently, Del Rey was signed to the label Stranger Records. She released her acclaimed album Born To Die in 2012; it charted at number one in eleven countries, and reached number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Lana Del Rey's net worth in 2024 has been estimated at around $30 million, a figure some of her fans have speculated is "too low" to be plausible.

As 2023 drew to a close, Lana Del Rey ranked as Spotify's tenth most-streamed artist.

9 Karol G

Karol G's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 52.3 Million

Carolina Giraldo Navarro, a reggaeton singer and songwriter from Colombia, is also better known by her stage moniker: Karol G.

Carolina was born and raised in the Colombian city of Medellín.

She has received numerous honors, including Grammys and Billboard Music honors.

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Her breakout song, "Ahora Me Llama," was a collaboration with famed Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. She achieved her highest-charting single to date on the Billboard chart with her track "TQE" in early 2023.

As of early 2024, Karol G's net worth is estimated to stand at between $15 million and $25 million, and she was one of Spotify's ten most streamed artists in 2023.

8 SZA

SZA's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 65.7 Million

Imani Rowe, better known by her stage name SZA, hails from St. Louis, Missouri, who was signed to TDE after two of her early EPs began gaining some traction.

SZA's stage name was inspired by Wu-Tang Clan member RZA; the "S" for "savior," and the "Z" and "A" for zigzag and Allah, respectively.

SZA was in the news in early 2024, after she aired some grievances via Twitter, about people leaking her music. She tweeted:

"LEAKING MY MUSIC IS STEALING . THIS IS MY JOB . THIS IS MY LIFE AND MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. YOU ARE A F***ING THIEF AND I PROMISE TO PUT MAXIMUM ENERGY INTO HOLDING EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW . I AM TIRED ."

SZA's song "Kill Bill" was the second most streamed song of 2023, according to Spotify Wrapped.

7 Travis Scott

Travis Scott's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 61.5 Million

Like several other artists on this list, Jacques Bermon Webster II is a rapper, singer, and producer known by a stage name: Travis Scott.

Travis is well-known for his clean blend of classic hip-hop and "lo-fi," a sound that is associated with only a few artists in the business, including Kanye West.

Travis had a difficult start to his music career, sleeping on the floor of a friend's house, being abandoned by another friend who promised him shelter in Los Angeles, being kicked out of his parents' home (and cut off financially), eventually sleeping on the couch in a friend's dorm room at the University of Southern California.

Fortuitously for the future star from Houston, things changed when influential Atlanta-based rapper T.I. heard one of Travis' recordings – and fell in love with it.

Travis has won numerous awards, including Billboard Music Awards for "Top Streaming Song" (for "Sicko Mode," feat. Drake), BET Awards for "Best Collaboration," and a BET Award for "Album of the Year," with Astroworld.

Travis Scott has over 61 million monthly Spotify listeners, making him one of the most streamed artists on the platform.

6 Feid

Feid's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 45 Million

Salomon Villada Hoyos was also born in Medellín, Colombia, and he goes by the stage name Feid.

Feid learned to play the clarinet as a child, but quit in favor of learning how to sing. He joined an undergraduate choir and frequently performed in front of friends and coworkers, at school parties or reunions.

Feid has worked with several famous names in the music industry, including Bad Bunny, Karol G, and other popular singers.

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Feid has over 45 million monthly listeners, 13 million Instagram followers, and nearly six million YouTube subscribers.

5 Peso Pluma

Peso Pluma's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 54.6 Million

Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, better known by his stage name Peso Pluma, is a Mexican singer who learned to play the guitar at an early age, by listening to regional Mexican music.

Peso Pluma gained significant internet traction after his track "El Belicon" received over ten million views on YouTube alone in a single month, with trailing popularity on apps like TikTok and Instagram:

His single "Ella Baila Sola" charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the first regional Mexican artist to crack the top five.

Peso Pluma has nearly 55 million monthly listeners on average as of early 2024, and Peso's album Genesis was the ninth most streamed album in the world in 2023.

4 Drake

Drake's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 83 Million

Aubrey Drake Graham, a Canadian singer and rapper with a reported net worth of $250 million (up from a firm Forbes estimate of $150 million in 2019), has become a household name.

Drake was the subject of intense label bidding wars following the popularity of his 2009 mixtape.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) considers Drake one of the top-certified digital singles artists in the United States, with over 170 million records sold globally.

Drake's passion for his craft has earned him five Grammy nominations, 34 Billboard awards, and countless other notable honors.

He was the first artist to attain 30 billion streams in April 2020, 40 billion streams in August 2021, 50 billion streams by September 2022, and 60 billion streams by June 2023, based on available streaming data.

3 The Weeknd

The Weeknd's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 112.9 Million

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye was born and raised in Toronto, and is known to fans as The Weeknd. The Weeknd earned his nickname after dropping out of school, leaving one weekend, and never returning.

He began publishing music on YouTube anonymously in August 2009, which was to be his introduction to the music industry. Abel, now known as The Weeknd, was previously known as "the Noise" and "Kin Kane," and he released songs under both aliases.

"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd is the most streamed song on Spotify, with over 3.9 billion streams at the time of publication.

As of early 2024, The Weeknd's net worth was widely estimated at $300 million, a figure we were unable to verify; however, Forbes reported his earnings as $40 million for the year 2019, the most recent year for which his earnings data were updated.

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2 Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 76.3 Million

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, and acquired the stage name "Bad Bunny" after he was forced to wear a bunny costume (which he didn't enjoy at the time).

Bad Bunny was always focused on music, and sang in the choir of his church until he was 13 years old. He began writing and producing his music on SoundCloud when he was 14 years old.

Slowly, Bad Bunny became more mainstream, and in 2020, Bad Bunny and YHLQMDLG topped Spotify's most-streamed artists internationally, respectively.

In 2021, he was featured (as a talking houseplant) in a quarantine-centric rap segment on Saturday Night Live (SNL), titled "Loco ft. Bad Bunny":

The Puerto Rican artist currently holds a record for being the first and only artist to have the most streams for three straight years.

As of 2024, Bad Bunny's net worth has been estimated to stand in the range of $22 to $40 million, but we were unable to locate a solid basis for that figure.

According to a Forbes blogger in early 2023, Bad Bunny earned $88 million in 2022 alone.

1 Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift's Estimated Monthly Listeners On Spotify: 107.9 Million

Taylor Swift – currently the most streamed artist on Spotify – discovered her musical talent when she was nine years old, and began traveling to New York City for acting and vocal training sessions.

Swift eventually gravitated towards country music, citing Shania Twain as an inspiration. In her music career, she has received twelve Grammys, an Emmy, 40 American Music Awards, 39 Billboard Music Awards, 117 Guinness World Records, 23 MTV Video Music Awards, and myriad assorted accolades and honors.

By 2019, she had over 50 million album sales, 150 million singles sales, and over 78 million streams as of 2021. She is the only artist on Spotify who hit between 200 and 250 million streams in a single day.

However, 2023 was undoubtedly Taylor Swift's year to conquer, with her blockbuster Eras Tour (and associated movie), as well as her dominance of the charts and the news cycle.

Famously, Taylor Swift's net worth hit (and exceeded) the $1 billion mark in late 2023:

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According to Spotify Wrapped data (and to the surprise of no one), Taylor Swift is the most streamed artist on Spotify for 2023, racking up 26.1 billion streams since January 1st, 2023.

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