As of late 2025/early 2026, Taylor Swift has over 20 songs with a billion streams on Spotify, with "Exile" being her 21st in October 2025, and many more, including "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" and "All Too Well (10 Min Version)", crossing the milestone, showcasing her massive streaming success.
Taylor Swift had 26.6 billion streams on Spotify in 2024, making her the platform's top global artist for the second year in a row, driven by her Eras Tour and album releases like The Tortured Poets Department.
Spotify has revealed that 1,000 songs have reached one billion plays on the platform. That group includes tunes performed in many different languages, from artists based all around the world, and even tracks that come from a variety of decades.
'As It Was' by Harry Styles surpassed 4 billion streams on Spotify, becoming his first song to reach this milestone. It is now the fourth most-streamed song in Spotify history and holds the record as the fastest song to reach 4 billion streams.
Taylor Swift becomes the FIRST artist in history to surpass 100 BILLION SOLO streams on Spotify! the queen of the music industry continues to make history! #TaylorSwift #Taylor #Swift.
In December 2012, "Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach one billion views. By June 2015, only "Baby" had also managed to pass this threshold, but, by October 2015, a total of ten videos had done so, and the number grew further to over 400 in 2024.
If you get a pop up saying you're in the top 0.005% of listeners for a specific artist or song on Spotify means you listened more than 99.9995% of all other listeners on Spotify, cementing yourself as a mega fan of whatever it was you were obsessively listening to.
As of late 2025/early 2026, Bad Bunny is Spotify's #1 most-streamed global artist for 2025, while Taylor Swift holds the title for the most-streamed artist in Spotify's history overall and was #1 in the US for 2025. The Weeknd leads in monthly listeners, but Bad Bunny's 2025 success with his album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS put him back on top for the year, marking his fourth time as Global Top Artist.
“Gangnam Style” by South Korean musician PSY became the first YouTube video to reach 1 billion views. By the end of 2012, the song had topped music charts in more than 30 countries around the world. #song4theweekend #PSY #GangnamStyle #musichistory #music.
Over the course of Elvis' life, he achieved some of the highest accolades in music and film. It is estimated that more than one billion Elvis records have been sold worldwide, more than anyone in record industry history.
It became a global phenomenon, clocking up more than 16 billion views - YouTube's most watched video ever. That song was the incredibly catchy Baby Shark.
The only tracks with over 3 billion streams on Spotify: 1️⃣ Blinding Lights (4.049b) 2️⃣ Shape Of You (3.774b) 3️⃣ Someone You Loved (3.198b) 4️⃣ Sunflower (3.145b) 5️⃣ Starboy (3.014b) 6️⃣ As It Was (3.002b)
There's no single "number 1 artist of all time" as it's subjective, but Leonardo da Vinci often tops lists for visual art due to masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, while The Beatles are frequently cited as the best-selling music group ever, and Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley are often named as top solo music artists by sales and influence. Modern metrics like Spotify streams point to artists like Bad Bunny or Taylor Swift for recent dominance.
Spotify had about 4.8 trillion streams in 2024. They say they paid out $10 billion to artists. Since Taylor Swift had about 0.6% of the streams, she got about $60 million from that alone. The Weeknd got around half of that, and so on.
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The number one streamed song of all time, primarily on Spotify, is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd, having surpassed 5 billion streams and holding the top spot over other massive hits like Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You" and The Weeknd's "Starboy".
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The answer is that when people are in the top 0.005% of all the listeners globally, they have listened to that song or artist more than 99.995% of all other Spotify users. Additionally, many users also ranked under the top 0.001% of all the listeners globally when they shared their top artists and songs.
The "number one artist" depends on the metric, but currently, Taylor Swift is often cited as the top global artist, leading in Spotify streams and Billboard rankings for overall artist performance, while The Weeknd often holds the top spot for most monthly listeners on Spotify. Bad Bunny remains dominant in global streams for previous years and holds top album status, with Drake and Billie Eilish also consistently high.
Bad Bunny is once again Spotify's Global Top Artist
Rounding out the top five artists are Taylor Swift in second place (but first in the U.S.), followed by The Weeknd (third), Drake (fourth), and Billie Eilish (fifth).
Super listeners are the driving beat behind your success
On average: They're a real powerhouse: Across all artist sizes, super listeners make up just 2% of an artist's monthly listeners but drive over 18% of monthly streams. They stream like stans: One super listener streams as much as 20 programmed listeners.
A good number of Spotify monthly listeners varies by genre, but typically, 1,000 to 10,000 indicates solid listener engagement. Popular artists often exceed 50,000, reflecting significant streaming trends and highlighting their broader appeal across audiences.