To everyone's surprise, Sheeran just got outshined by a rapper. After releasing his '=' (Equals) last year, his status soared even higher as he maintained his position on the music streaming platform.īut as the global artists released more albums, Sheeran was not able to secure his top spot and got dethroned instead.ĬhartMasters recently updated their list of Spotify's most-streamed artists. Even his old songs like 'Shape of You' managed to get billions of streams as of press time. In the past months, Ed Sheeran has continuously broken several records on Spotify. Subscribe here for our free daily newsletter.Is Ed Sheeran still the top artist on Spotify? Chart Data, meanwhile, is a rather mysterious, nerdy and Cardi B-approved stats site for music chart geeks that’s run by an unnamed one-man operation. Officially launched in 2008, Spotify officially hit 100 million paid subscribers early this year, part of the streaming service’s 217 million monthly active users. Post Malone, a relatively new artist with fewer than 60 total songs available to stream, is ranked number five and actual guitar-based rock bands Coldplay and Imagine Dragons also cracked the top 10. Other all-time artists feature some surprises: Eminem was seemingly more popular a few years prior to the streaming service’s launch, yet he still comes in at number three. Most streamed artists of all time on Spotify (by lead artist credit):

Canadian rapper Drake is the most streamed artist of all time on Spotify, according to a report by music site Chart Data.Įven without a new album, Drake is a constant: He currently has 41 million+ monthly listeners (which is 12th in the world) and nearly 41 million followers.

Spotify top artists of all time