Top 20 Artists With the Most Monthly Listeners on Spotify

Monthly listeners count people, not plays — unique accounts that played an artist at least once in the trailing 28 days. That makes it a reach metric: one runaway single can push an artist into the global top ten within weeks, while a deep back catalogue alone may not. The Weeknd was the first artist to cross 100 million monthly listeners and has been the most consistent name above that line. Nineteen of the twenty entries are solo acts; Coldplay is the only band, a reminder that streaming recommendation logic favours single-name brands. The geography is telling too: Canada holds three slots (The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber), the UK three, and Puerto Rico's Bad Bunny sits near the very top singing entirely in Spanish.