Drake, Ed Sheeran and Eminem are Spotify's greatest artists – Rolling Stone

Spotify celebrated its 10th anniversary this week and, celebrating its explosive growth, the Swedish streaming service has released several all-time lists highlighting the music that has climbed to the top of its platform this decade. (Although founded in 2006, the company officially launched its activities in 2008.) These statistics include the song most listened to every year since the launch of Spotify, the most listened to artists of all time, the most listened song of all the time – we understand the idea.

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Drake, Ed Sheeran and Eminem are the most-watched artists of all time, while Sheeran's "Shape of You" is the most-watched song, followed by Drake's "One Dance" and Halra's "Closer". .

Curiously, Spotify ranks a special category of "most popular female artists" – perhaps even because a quick glance at the list of most popular artists shows that the names are largely male. (Rihanna and Ariana Grande are the only two musicians to break through.) The most popular songs are also compiled on a special "decade of discovery" playlist.

The most listened songs of all time
1. Ed Sheeran – "The shape of you"
2. Drake – "One Dance"
3. The Chainsmokers, Halsey – "Closer"
4. Post Malone – "rockstar" (21 Savage)
5. Ed Sheeran – "Think hard"
6. Major Lazer, MØ, DJ Snake – "Lean On"
7. Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber – "Despacito – Remix"
8. Justin Bieber – "Do you like"
9. Justin Bieber – "Sorry"
10. The Chainsmokers – "Do not let me down"

The best artists of all time
1. Drake
2. Ed Sheeran
3. Eminem
4. The week
5. Rihanna
6. Kanye West
7. Coldplay
8. Justin Bieber
9. Calvin Harris
10. Ariana Grande

The most popular female artists in the world
1. Rihanna
2. Ariana Grande
3. Sia
4. Beyoncé
5. Nicki Minaj
6. Adèle
7. Taylor Swift
8. Selena Gomez
9. Katy Perry
10. Shakira

Other statistics to note: Spotify is currently active in 65 countries, with a total of 180 million monthly active users. The service says that in August 2018, it had paid more than 10 billion euros ($ 11.76 billion) to rights holders and built a catalog of 40 million songs and podcasts. If we combined all the users' broadcast times on Spotify over the last decade, the total duration would be 16,858,080 years.