Spotify has a relatively short history as it launched in Europe in 2008 and entered the US market in 2011. As you can see, he’s one of the few to reverse the journey: from Europe to the United States.
Since then, the Stockholm-based company has grown to become the world’s most popular streaming audio service with 456 million users in 183 markets. there is not one apps of the music with users from all over the world.
With such a large user base, Spotify’s top artists have seen their biggest hits reach millions, if not billions, of listens. Therefore, he created Spotify Billion Club in July 2021.A playlist with all the songs that hit the 1 billion milestone.
That’s why they decided to create a unique data infographic on Visual Capitalist, so we’ll compile the entire playlist and sort it by decade and artist.
Top 10 artists with one billion views
| Situation | Artist | monthly listening | +1,000+million song count. |
|---|---|---|---|
| one | Ed Sheeran | 76 Million | eleven |
| two | post malone | 51 million | 9 |
| two | Weekend | 79 million | 9 |
| 4 | XXXTENTACION | 34 Million | 8 |
| 5 | Ariana Grande | 56 Million | 7 |
| 5 | maroon 5 | 50 million | 7 |
| 7 | drake | 68 Million | 6 |
| 7 | Eminem | 59 Million | 6 |
| 9 | Shawn Mendes | 43 million | 5 |
| 9 | Bruno Mars | 51 Million | 5 |
| 9 | cold game | 59 Million |
The table features the top 10 artists, sorted by the number of songs listened to more than 1 billion times. Actually, there are 11 artists on the list because Shawn Mendes, Bruno Mars and Coldplay tied for 5 songs in the billions club.
To start, Ariana Grande is the only female artist in the top 10. Her best performing song on Spotify is 7 ringtones, her fifth studio album thank you next. The song has garnered 1.8 billion streams as of February 8, 2019.
The female superstars that narrowly missed the top 10 list are Adele, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo, who have four songs in the billions listening club.
Which are the top 10 artists who have been on the market the longest?
In this context, we measure the time elapsed since the artist’s debut album. In this case, the crown goes to Eminem, who released Infinite in November 1996.
11 track album Released on cassette and recordand according to industry data, only about 1,000 copies were sold. The title track of the album, Infinite, is the only track available on Spotify and currently has 33 million streams.
Billion Club contains over 300 songs, most of which were released in the 2010s.. This makes sense since Spotify launched at the beginning of that decade and current music streaming is the norm (as much as we love the Beatles).
If you want the image to be in very high resolution, click here as the infographic is worth looking into. Spotify has changed the music industry in an unprecedented way. There may be more apps with good music, but no one is at Stockholm company level.
Source: Computer Hoy
