Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name), The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber’s Stay, and Dua Lipa’s Levitating filled out the rest of the Top 5 on Spotify’s global list, while Ariana Grande’s Positions, Pop Smoke’s For the Night and the Weeknd’s Blinding Lights appeared on Apple’s. In 2021, you gifted fans with the soundtracks they needed to. Rodrigo also appears at No 4 in Spotify’s global list with the pop-punk song Good 4 U, which was the top song in the UK on both Spotify and Apple Music. Celebrating artists wins on Spotify in 2021. Her breakup ballad Drivers License topped the Spotify list with 1.1bn streams, and was second to BTS’s Dynamite on Apple Music’s list of most-streamed songs. Little known at the start of the year beyond teen fans of her acting, a series of variously angry and melancholy hits about love and teenage angst made her one of the world’s biggest pop stars – she is the only artist to be nominated in all the “big four” categories at the 2022 Grammy awards. It means that, with those 84.31 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran is currently being listened to by approximately 20% of all Spotify users worldwide.The 18-year-old Californian pop star Olivia Rodrigo had the most-streamed song and album globally on Spotify, following the phenomenal success of her debut album Sour. That figure was up by 16 million quarter-on-quarter. Spotify recently announced that, at the close of March 2022, it counted 422 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) worldwide. Interesting fact: Four of the current Top Six artists on Spotify globally (Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, and Coldplay) are British the other two (Justin Bieber and The Weeknd) are Canadian. Other artists to make the current Top 20 include Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, and Drake.

With 84.31 million monthly listeners, Sheeran is just shy of 5 million ahead of Justin Bieber, who has 79.66 million.īieber in turn just pips The Weeknd (with 76.59 million monthly listeners) to the No.2 position.

As you can see below, with just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since = in October 2021.

Spotify top artists this year