Spotify streaming milestones
- Spotify data shows Taylor Swift is now the most-streamed artist ever on the platform. (x.com) - Bad Bunny ranks #2 overall and top male artist, with Un Verano Sin Ti named top album. (x.com) - Drake’s Nothing Was The Same reached 5 billion streams, joining several of his albums at that mark. (x.com)
Taylor Swift has become the most-streamed artist in Spotify’s history, according to figures the platform shared this week. (spotify.com) Spotify’s own year-end data already showed Swift as its 2024 global top artist with more than 26.6 billion streams that year alone, after she also led the service in 2023. Spotify said she logged more than 26.1 billion global streams in 2023. (spotify.com 1) (spotify.com 2) Bad Bunny now sits at No. 2 overall and remains Spotify’s top male artist, based on platform data highlighted alongside the new all-time rankings. His 2022 album *Un Verano Sin Ti* is also listed as Spotify’s most-streamed album. (spotify.com 1) (spotify.com 2) Drake added another catalog milestone: *Nothing Was The Same*, released in 2013, reached 5 billion Spotify streams. The album joins several other Drake projects that have already crossed that mark on the service. (spotify.com) The update lands after two years in which Spotify’s biggest records kept tilting toward repeat listening of blockbuster catalogs, not just new singles. Swift’s *The Tortured Poets Department* became the first album in Spotify history to clear 300 million streams in a single day on April 19, 2024, and then became the platform’s most-streamed album in a single week on April 22, 2024. (spotify.com 1) (spotify.com 2) Bad Bunny’s place near the top reflects a longer run than a single album cycle. Spotify’s 2025 Wrapped rankings put him at No. 1 globally, with Swift at No. 2, The Weeknd at No. 3 and Drake at No. 4 for that year. (spotify.com) Those rankings and milestones measure cumulative streams on the world’s largest paid music-streaming platform, not album sales or radio play. Spotify Charts says its rankings track what fans are streaming across artist, genre, city and local charts worldwide. (spotify.com) The picture is also different from monthly-listener snapshots, which rise and fall with release schedules and viral hits. Spotify’s public artist pages currently show about 104.1 million monthly listeners for Bad Bunny, 102.1 million for Taylor Swift and 88.9 million for Drake. (spotify.com) (spotify.com) (spotify.com) Taken together, the new totals show three different kinds of streaming endurance on Spotify: Swift at the all-time artist summit, Bad Bunny with the top male-artist and album positions, and Drake still turning a 2013 release into a 5 billion-stream catalog title. (spotify.com) (spotify.com) (spotify.com)
