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Who is the most streamed artist on Spotify?

As of 2026-08-11, the most-listened-to artist on Spotify is Bruno Mars, with 131 million monthly listeners, the leader across 22 of the platform's biggest artists ranked live via the SocialCrawl API. Spotify publishes no career stream total per artist, so monthly listeners is the listening figure it does report.

Last updated August 11, 2026

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The numbers, right now

Last updated August 11, 2026

Bruno Mars

Most listened to

131,278,101

Monthly listeners

86,745,116

Followers

Arijit Singh

Most followed artist

22

Artists ranked

Live top 10

RankArtistMonthly listeners
1Bruno Mars131,278,101
2Justin Bieber122,494,474
3The Weeknd114,896,661
4Rihanna113,059,313
5Taylor Swift100,482,293
6Bad Bunny99,449,864
7Ariana Grande98,910,464
8Lady Gaga96,483,974
9Coldplay94,859,314
10Drake92,187,220

How we compute this

SocialCrawl reads the public monthly listener count for a curated basket of the world's biggest Spotify artists via the API endpoint /v1/spotify/artist, one call per artist by its Spotify artist ID, then ranks them by monthly listeners. 22 artists were ranked on 2026-08-11. Monthly listeners counts the unique accounts that played an artist in the last 28 days, so it measures reach rather than total plays: one listener counts once no matter how often they replay. Spotify does not publish a career stream total for any artist, so no such number is reported here. This is a leaderboard among well-known global artists, not an exhaustive scan of every artist on Spotify. Counts are read live, never estimated.

Source endpoints
/v1/spotify/artist
Sample size
22
Computed
2026-08-11

Run this yourself

One API call returns the same live feed we sampled. Drop in your key and go.

curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/spotify/artist?id=0du5cEVh5yTK9QJze8zA0C" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_your_api_key_here"
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Who is the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2026?
As of 2026-08-11, Bruno Mars leads with 131 million monthly listeners, ahead of every other artist in the 22-artist basket SocialCrawl ranks. The figure is read live from each artist's public Spotify page via the API, so it tracks reality rather than a stale estimate.
Does Spotify publish how many total streams an artist has?
No. Spotify publishes no career or all-time stream total for an artist anywhere, including in the data this page reads. The two artist-level audience numbers it does publish are followers and monthly listeners, which is why this ranking uses monthly listeners. Per-track playcounts are published, so the most-streamed song can be answered exactly: see /data/most-streamed-song-on-spotify.
What is the difference between monthly listeners and followers on Spotify?
Followers are accounts that chose to subscribe to an artist and stay subscribed; monthly listeners are the unique accounts that actually played that artist in the last 28 days. They rank differently. As of 2026-08-11, Bruno Mars leads on monthly listeners with 131 million, while the most-followed artist in the same basket is Arijit Singh with 190 million followers.
Does this leaderboard cover every artist on Spotify?
No, it ranks a curated basket of 22 of the biggest global artists on Spotify, not an exhaustive scan of the platform. An artist outside the basket with a higher listener count would not appear, so treat it as a leaderboard among well-known artists rather than a full catalog scan.
How is the most-listened-to artist on Spotify calculated here?
Each artist's public monthly listener count is read via /v1/spotify/artist by its Spotify artist ID, then the 22 artists are ranked. The leader as of 2026-08-11 is Bruno Mars with 131 million monthly listeners. Counts are read live, not estimated, so the ranking refreshes as listening shifts.

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