Spotify Reveals Its Most Streamed Music of the Last 20 Years

This month marks 20 years since Spotify was founded. Since it began operations in April 2006, the platform has now become the dominant force in music streaming and has completely changed the music industry.

Some of those notable changes have included audiobooks, Spotify Wrapped’s year-end recaps that almost every company across industries has now begun to copy, and, in recent years, a controversial introduction of artificial intelligence into the music streaming experience.

Now, for the first time in its 20-year history, Spotify announced its internal data on the top 20 most-streamed music, audiobooks, and podcasts since the platform’s creation. The results might not be totally shocking. For example, the most-streamed artist of the past 20 years is none other than Taylor Swift.

But there are some surprises and possible upsets, Beyoncé perhaps being chief of them. Not only did the hugely popular Beyoncé not make it into the top 20 most-streamed artists list, but none of her songs or albums were in the respective top 20s as well. K-pop, a subgenre with a huge and very dedicated fandom, also only got one nod with the boy band BTS.

According to the data, the most-streamed album of all time is Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti,” and the most-streamed song is “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd

On the non-music streaming side of things, the most-streamed podcast of all time was The Joe Rogan Experience, and the top audiobook was Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses.

Here are the full lists:

Spotify’s Most Streamed Artists of All Time:

1. Taylor Swift
2. Bad Bunny
3. Drake
4. The Weeknd
5. Ariana Grande
6. Ed Sheeran
7. Justin Bieber
8. Billie Eilish
9. Eminem
10. Kanye West
11. Travis Scott
12. BTS
13. Post Malone
14. Bruno Mars
15. J Balvin
16. Rihanna
17. Coldplay
18. Kendrick Lamar
19. Future
20. Juice WRLD

Spotify’s Most Streamed Albums of All Time:

1. Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
2. Starboy by The Weeknd
3. ÷ (Deluxe) by Ed Sheeran
4. SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo
5. After Hours by The Weeknd
6. SOS by SZA
7. Hollywood’s Bleeding by Post Malone
8. Lover by Taylor Swift
9. AM by Arctic Monkeys
10. WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish
11. Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa
12. beerbongs & bentleys by Post Malone
13. ? by XXXTENTACION
14. MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO (BICHOTA SEASON) by KAROL G
15. YHLQMDLG by Bad Bunny
16. Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Bruno Mars
17. Views by Drake
18. Midnights by Taylor Swift
19. Scorpion by Drake
20. Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd

Spotify’s Most Streamed Songs of All Time:

1. “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd
2. “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran
3. “Sweater Weather” by The Neighbourhood
4. “Starboy” by The Weeknd and Daft Punk
5. “As It Was” by Harry Styles
6. “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi
7. “Sunflower – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” by Post Malone and Swae Lee
8. “One Dance” by Drake, Wizkid, and Kyla
9. “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran
10. “STAY (with Justin Bieber)” by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber
11. “Believer” by Imagine Dragons
12. “I Wanna Be Yours” by Arctic Monkeys
13. “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals
14. “lovely (with Khalid)” by Billie Eilish and Khalid
15. “Yellow” by Coldplay
16. “The Night We Met” by Lord Huron
17. “Closer” by The Chainsmokers and Halsey
18. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish
19. “Riptide” by Vance Joy
20. “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars

Spotify’s Most Streamed Podcasts of All Time:

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. Gemischtes Hack
3. Crime Junkie
4. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
5. Last Podcast On The Left
6. The Daily
7. Fest & Flauschig
8. Morbid
9. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
10. Relatos de la Noche
11. Call Her Daddy
12. Não Inviabilize
13. Pardon My Take
14. Distractible
15. La Cotorrisa
16. Dateline NBC
17. Mordlust
18. Baywatch Berlin
19. Hobbylos
20. Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify’s Most Streamed Audiobooks of All Time:

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
2. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
4. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
5. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
6. Lights Out by Ted Koppel
7. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
8. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
9. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
10. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
11. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
12. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
13. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
14. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
15. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
16. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
17. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
18. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
19. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
20. Funny Story by Emily Henry