# What is the most streamed song on Spotify? (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/data/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.

Computed 2026-07-16 from a sample of 18.

## Methodology

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.

## FAQ

### 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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Data source: SocialCrawl unified social data API. https://www.socialcrawl.dev/data