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What is the most streamed song on Spotify?

As of 2026-07-16, the most-streamed song on Spotify is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with 5.5 billion streams, the leader across 18 of the platform's most-streamed tracks ranked live via the SocialCrawl API.

Last updated July 16, 2026

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The numbers, right now

Last updated July 16, 2026

Blinding Lights

Top track

The Weeknd

Artist

5,499,762,004

Streams

18

Tracks ranked

Live top 10

RankTrackStreams
1Blinding Lights by The Weeknd5,499,762,004
2Shape of You by Ed Sheeran5,006,584,677
3Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood4,737,870,171
4Starboy by The Weeknd4,642,245,777
5As It Was by Harry Styles4,518,764,641
6Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi4,378,940,802
7One Dance by Drake4,353,122,079
8Sunflower - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by Post Malone4,321,921,993
9Perfect by Ed Sheeran4,032,984,346
10STAY (with Justin Bieber) by The Kid LAROI4,000,110,443

How we compute this

SocialCrawl reads the public stream count for a curated basket of 18 of the most-streamed songs of all time on Spotify (chart-topping global hits spanning multiple years and artists) via the API endpoint /v1/spotify/track, one call per track by its Spotify track ID, then ranks them by playcount. This is a leaderboard among a curated basket of well-known globally popular tracks, not an exhaustive scan of every song on Spotify. The leader as of 2026-07-16 is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd with 5.5 billion streams. Playcounts are read live from each track's public Spotify page, never estimated.

Source endpoints
/v1/spotify/track
Sample size
18
Computed
2026-07-16

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/track?id=0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_your_api_key_here"
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What is the most streamed song on Spotify ever?
As of 2026-07-16, Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is the most-streamed song on Spotify among the 18 chart-topping tracks SocialCrawl tracks, with 5.5 billion streams on the track's public Spotify page. It leads a basket of the platform's biggest global hits, not the platform's full catalog.
What is the most streamed song on Spotify right now?
Right now the leader is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with 5.5 billion total streams as of 2026-07-16. Spotify's public playcount is a running lifetime total, not a daily or weekly figure, so it reflects cumulative streams rather than current chart momentum.
How is the most-streamed song on Spotify calculated here?
Each track's public stream count is read via /v1/spotify/track by its Spotify track ID, then the 18 tracks in the basket are ranked by playcount. The leader as of 2026-07-16 is Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with 5.5 billion streams, refreshed by re-reading the same public counts.
Does this leaderboard cover every song on Spotify?
No, it ranks a curated basket of 18 of the most-streamed songs of all time on Spotify, not an exhaustive scan of every track on the platform. A track outside the basket with a higher true stream count would not appear in this ranking, so treat it as a leaderboard among well-known global hits rather than a full catalog scan.

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