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It’s been 10 years since Spotify officially launched for fans—and new music and artist discovery has never been the same. We built our Swedish company to create a legal, better alternative to piracy—one that helps to fairly compensate artists for their work and shape music listening and sharing via streaming.

 

We now have 180 million monthly active listeners across 65 countries. And as of August 31, 2018, we have paid over 10 billion euros to rights holders since launch. Music fans on Spotify can enjoy our music library of over 40 million songs and podcasts, and 3 billion-plus user-created playlists. And to date, over 2,000 genres have been identified on Spotify, among them Wonky(electronic music characterized by synths with unusual time signatures), Shimmer Pop (a Swedish cousin of indie pop and indietronica), and British Blues (the blues … with a British flavor).

 

Since launch, we’ve also found that “listening diversity,” or the number of artists the average user streams per month, has risen on Spotify over the past 10 years at an average of about 8 percent per year. In the past three years alone, listening diversity increased about 40 percent on the strength of new personalized and editorial playlists—meaning people are listening to an increased number of artists on a regular basis.

 

In honor of this important milestone, we’re unveiling our lists of the most-streamed artists and songs, milestones and achievements, and most influential genres over the past 10 years. Take a closer look:

Most-streamed song each year since Spotify launch

2008: The Killers – “Human”

2009: The Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”

2010: Eminem, Rihanna – “Love The Way You Lie”

2011: Don Omar, Lucenzo – “Danza Kuduro”

2012: Gotye, Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know”

2013: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Can't Hold Us” (feat. Ray Dalton)

2014: Pharrell Williams – “Happy” – from Despicable Me 2

2015: Major Lazer, MØ, DJ Snake – “Lean On”

2016: Drake – “One Dance”

2017: Ed Sheeran – “Shape of You”

 

Top-streamed artists of all time

1. Drake 


2. Ed Sheeran 


3. Eminem 


4. The Weeknd 


5. Rihanna

6. Kanye West 


7. Coldplay 


8. Justin Bieber 


9. Calvin Harris 


10. Ariana Grande

 

Most-streamed female artists globally

1. Rihanna

2. Ariana Grande

3. Sia

4. Beyoncé

5. Nicki Minaj

6. Adele

7. Taylor Swift

8. Selena Gomez

9. Katy Perry

10. Shakira

 

Most-streamed songs of all time

1. Ed Sheeran – “Shape Of You'”

2. Drake – “One Dance”

3. The Chainsmokers, Halsey – “Closer”

4. Post Malone – “rockstar” (feat. 21 Savage)

5. Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”

6. Major Lazer, MØ, DJ Snake – “Lean On”

7. Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber – “Despacito - Remix'”

8. Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”

9. Justin Bieber – “Sorry”

10. The Chainsmokers – “Don't Let Me Down”

 

First 10 artists to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify

1. Rihanna (2013)

2. David Guetta (2013)

3. Eminem (2013)

4. Kanye West (2014)

5. Avicii (2014)

6. Coldplay (2014)

7. JAY Z (2014)

8. Katy Perry (2014)

9. Drake (2014)

10. Pitbull (2014)

 

Most-streamed albums globally

1. Ed Sheeran – ÷

2. Justin Bieber – Purpose

3. Drake – Views

4. Ed Sheeran – x

5. Post Malone – beerbongs & bentleys

6. The Weeknd – Starboy

7. Drake – Scorpion

8. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness

9. Post Malone – Stoney

10. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

 

Top 100 Most Streamed Songs of All Time on Spotify (Not In Order.):

 

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2018-10-10/celebrating-a-decade-of-discovery-on-spotify/

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6 minutes ago, soramaro said:

1. Drake 


2. Ed Sheeran 


3. Eminem 


4. The Weeknd 


5. Rihanna

6. Kanye West 


7. Coldplay 


8. Justin Bieber 


9. Calvin Harris 


10. Ariana Grande

Queens

looks like it only include main artist songs, not the features. (nick being #5 on female)

5 minutes ago, soramaro said:

 

Most-streamed female artists globally

1. Rihanna

2. Ariana Grande

3. Sia

4. Beyoncé

5. Nicki Minaj

6. Adele

7. Taylor Swift

8. Selena Gomez

9. Katy Perry

10. Shakira

 

Always present during the physical (90s), digital (00s), and streaming era (10s)  

11 minutes ago, soramaro said:

4. Beyoncé

ahhh my fave. also Halo being in the list  

13 minutes ago, soramaro said:

Most-streamed albums globally

1. Ed Sheeran – ÷

2. Justin Bieber – Purpose

3. Drake – Views

4. Ed Sheeran – x

5. Post Malone – beerbongs & bentleys

6. The Weeknd – Starboy

7. Drake – Scorpion

8. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness

9. Post Malone – Stoney

10. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

Omg no women.

Thank God Dua is coming for this list next week.

Also we LOVE the saviors of the music industry and leading the battle against pirating music.

It's interesting how different the charts can be when you don't factor in physical sales. The top 10 most globally streamed albums are interesting! No Adele, Beyonce or Taylor even though they have big albums. 

the amount of Rihanna rejects on these lists 

59 minutes ago, sadnews said:

looks like it only include main artist songs, not the features. (nick being #5 on female)

They include every song the artist has on their Spotify page

the lack of women  

Human a streaming pioneer 

2008: The Killers – “Human”

 

The original Spotify kings   

Coldplay

4 hours ago, soramaro said:

9. Katy Perry

Oh wow

6 hours ago, jonnysands91 said:

It's interesting how different the charts can be when you don't factor in physical sales. The top 10 most globally streamed albums are interesting! No Adele, Beyonce or Taylor even though they have big albums. 

Why would they be there? 

21 was made available to stream almost 2 years after its release 

25 7 months later 

Beys last albums one isn’t there one was uploaded delayed 

All while Spotify was getting bigger and bigger and you can see those albums in the top 10’are very particular im style 

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Top-streamed artists of all time

1. Drake 


4. The Weeknd 


5. Rihanna

7. Coldplay 


9. Calvin Harris 


10. Ariana Grande 

 ALL of my faves making the list

Edited October 10, 20187 yr by Mark Rih

52 minutes ago, Cockney Cupcake said:

Why would they be there? 

21 was made available to stream almost 2 years after its release 

25 7 months later 

Beys last albums one isn’t there one was uploaded delayed 

All while Spotify was getting bigger and bigger and you can see those albums in the top 10’are very particular im style 

Also, Taylor just put all her music back on the there last year. I'm sure at least one of their albums is in the top 20.

22 hours ago, Kiss It Better said:

the amount of Rihanna rejects on these lists 

asdfghjk

 

Taylor still here even though they treat her poorly. The power of great music! TAW!