As of August 12, 2026, Bruno Mars has the most monthly listeners on Spotify, with 131,278,101 — ahead of Justin Bieber (122,494,474), The Weeknd (114,896,661), Rihanna (113,059,313) and Shakira (106,951,968). Taylor Swift sits just outside the top five at around 100 million. Monthly listeners count how many unique accounts played an artist at least once in the past 28 days, so this leaderboard is a live measure of who the world is listening to right now — not a career total. The full top 50 is below, followed by answers to the questions people ask most about the metric. If you'd rather test yourself than read the table, our Who's Bigger? quiz turns these exact numbers into a game.
Every figure below comes from the artist's public Spotify profile, as tracked by kworb.net.
| # | Artist | Monthly Listeners |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Mars | 131,278,101 |
| 2 | Justin Bieber | 122,494,474 |
| 3 | The Weeknd | 114,896,661 |
| 4 | Rihanna | 113,059,313 |
| 5 | Shakira | 106,951,968 |
| 6 | Taylor Swift | 100,482,293 |
| 7 | Bad Bunny | 99,449,864 |
| 8 | Ariana Grande | 98,910,464 |
| 9 | Michael Jackson | 97,782,509 |
| 10 | Lady Gaga | 96,483,974 |
| 11 | Coldplay | 94,859,314 |
| 12 | Drake | 92,187,220 |
| 13 | Katy Perry | 89,701,423 |
| 14 | David Guetta | 86,366,960 |
| 15 | Pitbull | 85,553,453 |
| 16 | Ed Sheeran | 82,190,121 |
| 17 | Calvin Harris | 79,885,503 |
| 18 | Maroon 5 | 79,872,043 |
| 19 | Billie Eilish | 78,328,998 |
| 20 | J Balvin | 72,555,514 |
| 21 | Eminem | 72,119,618 |
| 22 | Sia | 68,990,737 |
| 23 | Kanye West | 68,719,200 |
| 24 | Kendrick Lamar | 67,409,504 |
| 25 | Dua Lipa | 67,363,335 |
| 26 | Daddy Yankee | 66,332,116 |
| 27 | SZA | 65,965,993 |
| 28 | Black Eyed Peas | 65,810,482 |
| 29 | Olivia Rodrigo | 65,809,604 |
| 30 | Harry Styles | 65,495,605 |
| 31 | Post Malone | 64,384,707 |
| 32 | Beyoncé | 64,266,329 |
| 33 | Lana Del Rey | 63,695,346 |
| 34 | Sean Paul | 61,512,509 |
| 35 | Zara Larsson | 60,481,564 |
| 36 | Burna Boy | 60,085,133 |
| 37 | Travis Scott | 59,837,944 |
| 38 | Tame Impala | 59,822,150 |
| 39 | Chris Brown | 58,568,715 |
| 40 | Sabrina Carpenter | 58,097,861 |
| 41 | Justin Timberlake | 57,863,793 |
| 42 | Adele | 57,162,936 |
| 43 | KAROL G | 56,754,479 |
| 44 | Miley Cyrus | 56,591,126 |
| 45 | Shawn Mendes | 56,281,629 |
| 46 | Linkin Park | 56,129,051 |
| 47 | Doja Cat | 55,153,338 |
| 48 | Marshmello | 54,921,234 |
| 49 | Madonna | 54,836,184 |
| 50 | Halsey | 54,702,693 |
Snapshot taken August 12, 2026, from kworb.net's tracking of public Spotify artist pages. Figures change daily.
Bruno Mars has spent 2026 at or near the top of the leaderboard, powered in part by "Die With A Smile," his duet with Lady Gaga that finished as Spotify's most-streamed song of 2025. Justin Bieber — back with new music in 2025 after a four-year album gap — sits second, and legacy catalogs are pushing surprisingly high: Michael Jackson is in the top ten, and ABBA, Queen and Fleetwood Mac all sit comfortably inside the top 105.
Monthly listeners reward reach, not devotion. An artist one billion people hear once ranks above an artist a million superfans stream all day. That's why film and TV syncs, viral TikTok moments and stadium tours can move an artist up this table by tens of millions of listeners in weeks — and why the order below the very top changes constantly.
Note the difference from "most-streamed." By total streams across a year, Bad Bunny was Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2025 — the fourth time he has topped the annual chart, more than any other artist — even though he doesn't lead the monthly-listener table today. The two metrics answer different questions: monthly listeners ask "how many people?", streams ask "how many plays?". Our monthly listeners explainer breaks the distinction down fully.
Bruno Mars, with 131,278,101 monthly listeners as of August 12, 2026. Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Rihanna and Shakira complete the top five. The figures change daily, so treat any list — including this one — as a dated snapshot.
The number of unique accounts that played an artist at least once in the past 28 days. It's a rolling measure of current reach, refreshed roughly daily — not a count of streams, followers or career sales. See our full monthly listeners explainer.
No. Monthly listeners count unique people in a 28-day window; streams count total plays. Bad Bunny was Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2025 by total plays, while Bruno Mars currently leads on monthly listeners — both statements are true at once because they measure different things.
Spotify refreshes each artist's monthly-listener figure roughly daily, always covering the trailing 28 days. This page shows a snapshot taken August 12, 2026; trackers like kworb.net record the day-to-day movement.
Every number is published by Spotify itself on the artist's public profile page. We compiled this table from kworb.net, which logs those public figures daily, and we re-verify the table each time the page is reviewed. This site is not affiliated with Spotify.
Figures on this page were checked against the sources below on August 12, 2026. Last reviewed August 2026.
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