These are Spotify’s most streamed artists, songs and albums of all time

Spotifyhave revealed the most streamed artists,songsand albums of all time on the streaming service – see the lists below.

The company is marking its 20thanniversary and for the first time, they have shared its all-time top streaming charts providing a definitive look at what have been the most populartracks and records for Spotify subscribers since 2006.

Many of the names at the top of thelistscome as no surprise, withTaylor Swiftbeing the most streamed single artist of them all.Bad Bunny’s 2022release‘Un Verano Sin Ti’comes out on top of thealbums list, while the biggest song on Spotify of all time isTheWeeknd’subiquitous 2019 smash ‘Blinding Lights’.

Ed Sheeran,Drake,Ariana Grande,JustinBieberandBillie Eilishare all well represented in the charts, while there is a strong showing forArctic Monkeys’ fifth album ‘AM’from 2013, which sits at Number Nine in the albums chart.That album’s closing track‘I WannaBe Yours’,an adaptation of theJohn Cooper Clarkepoem, makes it onto the songs list too at Number 12.

Glass Animalsmade it to the top 20 most-streamed songs list with their breakout 2020 hit ‘Heat Waves’, whileColdplay’s ‘Yellow’ proves evergreen, sitting at Number 15 despite being released six years before Spotify launched.

Moststreamed artists of all time on Spotify:

1. Taylor Swift
2. Bad Bunny
3. Drake
4. TheWeeknd
5. Ariana Grande
6. Ed Sheeran
7. Justin Bieber
8. Billie Eilish
9. Eminem
10. Kanye West
11. Travis Scott
12. BTS
13. Post Malone
14. Bruno Mars
15. J Balvin
16. Rihanna
17. Coldplay
18. Kendrick Lamar
19. Future
20. Juice WRLD

Most streamed albums of all time on Spotify:

1. Bad Bunny – ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’
2. TheWeeknd– ‘Starboy’
3. Ed Sheeran – ‘Divide (Deluxe)’
4. Olivia Rodrigo – ‘Sour’
5. TheWeeknd– ‘After Hours’
6. SZA – ‘SOS’
7. Post Malone – ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’
8. Taylor Swift – ‘Lover’
9. Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
10. Billie Eilish – ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’
11. Dua Lipa – ‘Future Nostalgia’
12. Post Malone – ‘Beerbongs& Bentleys’
13. XXXTentacion – ‘?’
14. Karol G – ‘Manaa Sera Bonito (BichotaSeason)’
15. Bad Bunny – ‘YHLQMDLG’
16. Bruno Mars – ‘Doo-Wops & Hooligans’
17. Drake – ‘Views’
18. Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’
19. Drake – ‘Scorpion’
20. TheWeeknd– ‘Beauty BehindTheMadness’

Most streamed songs of all time on Spotify:

1. TheWeeknd– ‘Blinding Lights’
2. Ed Sheeran – ‘ShapeOfYou’
3. TheNeighbourhood– ’Sweater Weather’
4. TheWeeknd, Daft Punk – ‘Starboy’
5. Harry Styles – ‘As It Was’
6. Lewis Capaldi – ‘Someone You Loved’
7. Post Malone, Swae Lee – ‘Sunflower – Spider-Man: IntoTheSpider-Verse’
8. Drake, Wizkid, Kyla – ‘One Dance’
9. Ed Sheeran – ‘Perfect’
10. The Kid LAROI, Justin Bieber – ‘Stay’
11. Imagine Dragons – ‘Believer’
12. Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Wanna Be Yours’
13. Glass Animals – ’Heat Waves’
14. Billie Eilish, Khalid – ‘Lovely’
15. Coldplay – ‘Yellow’
16. Lord Huron – ‘The Night We Met’
17. The Chainsmokers, Halsey – ‘Closer’
18. Billie Eilish – ‘BirdsOfAFeather’
19. Vance Joy – ’Riptide’
20. Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – ‘DieWithASmile’

Last month,Spotify claimed it had paid$10billionin royalties in 2024, the largest payout to the music industry in a single year, and1,500 artists earned over $1million in royalties during the year, a 10-fold increaseon the year before.

Earlier this year, however,Björk said that she thinks Spotify is “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians”.