Top 10 artists with the most monthly listeners in 2024
The top 10 most listened artists as of December 2024 give a pretty good view of the current most popular artists.
Every 24 hours Spotify updates the statistic monthly listeners for every artist available on Spotify. You can find the monthly listeners from an artist by clicking on their profile. It shows the number of monthly listeners right below the artist’s name.
Spotify has about 11 million artists and creators signed up. Meaning it is very hard to see which artists have the most monthly listeners. Because of this we will show the top 10 artists below.
Bruno Mars
The artist with the most monthly listeners in 2024 is the one and only Bruno Mars. The real name of Bruno Mars is Peter Gene Hernandez. Born in 1985 into a musical family, Bruno Mars made his debut in the music world on May 11, 2010, with the name of the EP being “It’s better if you don’t understand”. Bruno Mars his most streamed song ever on Spotify is Just the Way You Are with close to 2.5 billion streams.
The Weeknd
At spot number 2 with the most monthly listeners on Spotify is The Weeknd, with the real name of Abel Makkonen Tesfaye. The 34-year-old Abel is famous from multiple songs, including the most played song of all time “Blinding Lights”. The Weeknd his debut album “Kiss Land” came out in September 2013 which became a great success.
Lady Gaga
On the third place stands Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known as Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga was born on March 28, 1986, in New York City. She made her breakthrough in 2009 with the two hits Just Dance and Poker Face. The name Lady Gaga arose when her producer told her, she reminded him of the number Ga Ga from Queen. At that moment the name Lady Gaga was created.
Billie Eilish
At place 4 is the youngest artist on this list. With just the age of 22 Billie Eilish has an astonishing 105+ million monthly listeners, which is something never seen before. She was born in Los Angeles, California on December 18, 2001. Her real name is Billie Eilish O’Connell, however since she finds this name to Irish, she made her artist’s name just Billie Eilish.
Ariana Grande
At place 5 is the famous singer and actress Ariana Grande-Butera who is known as Ariana Grande. Born in 1993 in Florida, Ariana started her career as a child actress in the Broadway musical in 2008. She gained a lot of fame playing Cat Valentine in the show Victorious and Sam & Cat. In 2013 she made her debut as an artist with the song Yours Truly which started her great music career. Now Ariana Grande turned into one of the biggest stars ranking at place 5 on Spotify.
Taylor Swift
On place 6 stands Taylor Swift. Taylor Alison Swift, born in 1989 has been a big star since 2008 when she made the single “Love Story”. She currently has 14 Grammy Awards which is a very impressive amount. You can find Taylor Swift year after year in the top 10 on Spotify, with her loyal fanbase she is always there in the records.
Coldplay
On place 7 stands not an artist like the rest on this list, but a band, namely Coldplay. Coldplay is a British Rock band formed in 1996 in London. The members are Singer Chris Martin, guitarist Jon Buckland, drummer Will Champion and bassist Guy Berryman. The brand became famous with their single Yellow which made them a worldwide famous band.
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber, the 30-year-old pop star that became the most famous teenager at just 15 years old. Some of his songs like ‘Baby ft. Ludacris’ are still listened to which has more than 3 billion views to this day! Justin hasn’t been sitting around, because in 2017 he launched his song ‘I Don’t Care’ which broke records on Spotify by getting the most streams in just one day of 11 million streams.
Rihanna
On place 8 stands Rihanna, with the real name of Robyn Rihanna Fenty. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, February 20, 1988. Her Musical career began in 2005 when she released her album, Music of the sun. Since then, Rihanna has been a big star in the music world with hits after hits.
Ed Sheeran
Edward Sheeran, also known as Ed Sheeran, is Britain’s most famous singer. Since 2011, when he debuted with his song ‘The A Team’. In 2017 he released his album ‘÷’ which immediately broke multiple records. records on Spotify. It became the most-streamed album on Spotify within 24 hours. A few years later in 2021, he also released his album ‘=’ and soon after, he launched his ‘+-=÷x’ tour, which became a huge success in 2022.
