List Of Most Streamed Songs On Spotify
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The following list contains the top 100 songs with the most
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on the audio streaming platform
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. As of , only two songs have reached 3 billion streams -
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The Weeknd Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Known for his sonic versatility and dark lyricism, his music explores escapism, Romance (love), ...
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", and a total of 25 songs have reached 2 billion streams.
Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber ( ; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and has played an influential role in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter ...
has the most songs in the top 100 with six entries, while
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has the most songs in the top 10 with two entries. Prior to February 2014, Spotify's most-streamed song was "
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; it was overtaken by
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's " Wake Me Up", which became the first song to hit 200 million streams on 27 February 2014. "Wake Me Up" held the streaming record for over a year before being surpassed by Sheeran's "
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" on 22 May 2015, which became the first song to hit 500 million streams on 12 October 2015. A month later, however, it was surpassed by
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", featuring
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, which held the streaming record for 11 months until it was overtaken by
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One Dance "One Dance" is a song by Canadian rapper and singer Drake from his fourth studio album ''Views'' (2016). It features guest vocals from Nigerian afrobeats artist WizKid and British singer Kyla. The artists co-wrote the dancehall and afrobeats son ...
", featuring
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, on 18 October 2016. "One Dance" became the first song to hit 1 billion streams on 12 December 2016, and held the streaming record for almost a year before being surpassed by "Shape of You" on 21 September 2017, which went on to become the first song to reach 2 billion streams in December 2018 and 3 billion streams in December 2021. Spotify keeps a playlist of nearly all songs with over one billion streams. As of , a total of at least 335 songs have reached this milestone.


100 most-streamed songs

The following table lists the top 100 most-streamed songs on Spotify, with streams rounded to the nearest million, as well as the artist(s) and the date it was released.


Artists with the most songs in the top 100

This is a list of artists with the most songs in the top 100. It includes an artist's solo and featured songs (where the artist is officially credited).
Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber ( ; born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer. Bieber is recognized for his genre-melding musicianship and has played an influential role in modern-day popular music. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter ...
leads the list with 6 tracks.
Ed Sheeran Edward Christopher Sheeran (; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early 2011, Sheeran independently r ...
has 4 songs with over 2 billion streams, more than any other artist.


Historical most-streamed songs

The following table lists the last six songs to become Spotify's most-streamed songs, from 2013 to the present.


Milestones and achievements for songs


Weekly number-one songs


Spotify Charts

The following table lists the songs that reached the number one position on Spotify's weekly most-played chart. The table records the number one song starting from issue date 29 December 2016 as the data before that said date is not available on the Official Spotify Weekly Charts. "
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Sam Smith Samuel Frederick Smith (born 19 May 1992) is an English singer and songwriter. After rising to prominence in October 2012 by featuring on Disclosure's breakthrough single "Latch", which peaked at number eleven on the UK Singles Chart, they ...
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is the current number-one song on the Spotify Global Top 200 for the week ending 1 December 2022.


Before Spotify Charts

The following table lists the songs that reached the number one position before the existence of Spotify's most played weekly chart. The table records the number one song as of the issue date of 29 September 2013, as data prior to that date is not available. " Starboy" by
The Weeknd Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Known for his sonic versatility and dark lyricism, his music explores escapism, Romance (love), ...
featuring
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was the last number one song before the existence of the Spotify Global Top 200, until 29 December 2016.


Annual top five most-streamed songs

The following table lists the five songs that Spotify reported as most-played in each calendar year.


Most-streamed songs in a single day

The following table lists the 20 songs to get the most streams in a single day, as registered on Spotify Global Daily chart.


Most-streamed songs in a single week

The following table lists the top 20 most-streamed in a single week, as registered on the Spotify Global Weekly chart.


Longest-running number-one songs by days

The following table lists the songs with more than 50 days in the number 1 position on the Global Spotify Chart.


Milestones and achievements for albums


Annual top five most-streamed albums

The following table lists the five albums that Spotify reported as most-played in each calendar year.


Most streamed albums in a single day

The following table lists the most streamed albums in a single day, registering the total of obtained streams, the artist, the publication of the album and the date in which these streams were reached.


Most streamed albums in a single week

The following table lists the most streamed albums in a single week, registering the total of obtained streams, the artist, the publication of the album and the date in which these streams were reached.


See also

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List of most-streamed artists on Spotify This list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify. As of , The Weeknd has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a male artist, Ariana Grande has the most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female artist a ...
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