Swift tops Spotify

Taylor Swift is now Spotify’s most-streamed artist of all time, according to the platform’s all-time rankings released April 23. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify published the list for its 20th anniversary and said the rankings reflect global streams through April 2026. Bad Bunny ranked second, followed by Drake, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande. (newsroom.spotify.com) The same release put Taylor Swift albums twice in Spotify’s top 20 all time: *Lover* at No. 8 and *Midnights* at No. 17. No Swift song appeared in Spotify’s top-20 all-time songs list, which was led by The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” (newsroom.spotify.com) The ranking lands after a two-year stretch in which Spotify repeatedly tied Swift to platform records. In its 2024 Wrapped campaign, Spotify said she was its global top artist for a second straight year with more than 26.6 billion streams in 2024. (newsroom.spotify.com) Spotify also said *The Tortured Poets Department* became the first album in its history to clear 300 million streams in a single day on April 19, 2024. The company said “Fortnight” set its single-day song record on release day, and the album became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single week on April 22, 2024. (newsroom.spotify.com) The milestone also revives an older part of Swift’s history with streaming. She pulled her catalog from Spotify in November 2014, when *1989* had just been released and she was publicly arguing that music should not be treated as free. (rollingstone.com, time.com) Swift put her catalog back on Spotify and other streaming services in June 2017, ending a boycott that had lasted for almost three years. Her team tied the move to *1989* selling more than 10 million albums worldwide and 100 million song certifications. (usatoday.com, techcrunch.com) The scale of Spotify now is much bigger than when Swift left in 2014. Spotify reported 751 million monthly active users and 290 million paid subscribers for the fourth quarter of 2025, up 11% and 10% from a year earlier. (cnbc.com, variety.com) Spotify was founded in April 2006, and its anniversary package turned that company history into a scoreboard of what listeners played most over two decades. On that list, Swift finished first. (newsroom.spotify.com, newsroom.spotify.com)