Spotify top artists list

Spotify has published its first all-time streaming rankings, and Taylor Swift now sits at No. 1 among the platform’s most-streamed artists ever. (newsroom.spotify.com) The list was released Thursday, April 23, 2026, as Spotify marked 20 years since its founding and said the rankings draw from listening across “hundreds of millions” of fans over the platform’s history. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify’s top five artists are Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande. The rest of the top 10 are Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish, Eminem and Kanye West. (abcnews.com) Only two women — Swift and Grande — appear in that top five, while Billie Eilish is the only other woman in the top 10. The ranking spans nearly two decades of streaming, which favors artists with long catalog lives, global reach and repeat listening across multiple album cycles. (abcnews.com) (newsroom.spotify.com) The release also puts Spotify’s scale back in view. The company said in its annual report that it finished 2025 with 675 million monthly active users, including 263 million Premium subscribers. (investors.spotify.com) Swift and Bad Bunny have traded places in Spotify’s yearly global artist rankings in recent years. The Associated Press reported that Swift led the platform’s year-end global list in 2024 and 2025, while Bad Bunny held that spot from 2020 through 2023. (usnews.com) Spotify released all-time lists beyond artists at the same time. The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” ranked as the platform’s most-streamed song ever, and Bad Bunny’s *Un Verano Sin Ti* topped the albums list. (newsroom.spotify.com) The new ranking turns a familiar year-end streaming race into a longer ledger of the platform era. On Spotify’s all-time chart, the winners are the artists who stayed at the center of listening habits for years, not just one release cycle. (newsroom.spotify.com)