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Most-streamed songs on Spotify

34 songs racing month by month since Oct 2016. Blinding Lights by The Weeknd leads with 5.67 billion streams, 494.0 million ahead of Shape of You.

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All-time Spotify streams

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All-time Spotify streams as Wikipedia's list reported them each month · evened out between readingsData: Wikipedia · Photos: Wikimedia Commons

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The short answer

Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is the most-streamed song on Spotify, with 5.67 billion streams as of Nov 4, 2026.

How No. 1 changed hands

Every song that has led the race, and the month it took the top spot.

Closest gaps

The songs nearest to the one above them. Streams needed are exact, from the latest figures; the pace is each song's gain over the last month.

All 34 songs

Every song that has made the list's top 15 and is still in its top 100, by its latest total. Select a song for its monthly figures, or a column to sort.

Most-streamed songs on Spotify by all-time streams
#SongArtist(s)StreamsLast monthReleasedSources
1The Weeknd5.67 billion+45.8M2019WikipediaRevision
2Ed Sheeran5.17 billion+44.2M2017WikipediaRevision
3The Neighbourhood5.01 billion+78.3M2012WikipediaRevision
4The Weeknd and Daft Punk4.85 billion+55M2016WikipediaRevision
5Harry Styles4.70 billion+45M2022WikipediaRevision
6Drake, Wizkid, and Kyla4.55 billion+49.2M2016WikipediaRevision
7Post Malone and Swae Lee4.54 billion+47.5M2018WikipediaRevision
8Lewis Capaldi4.49 billion+30.8M2018WikipediaRevision
9Ed Sheeran4.17 billion+36.7M2017WikipediaRevision
10The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber4.13 billion+30M2021WikipediaRevision
11Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars4.12 billion+80M2024WikipediaRevision
12Arctic Monkeys4.09 billion+56.7M2013WikipediaRevision
13Billie Eilish4.09 billion+63.3M2024WikipediaRevision
14Coldplay4.07 billion+55.8M2000WikipediaRevision
15Lord Huron4.02 billion+53.3M2015WikipediaRevision
16Imagine Dragons4.01 billion+27.5M2017WikipediaRevision
17Glass Animals3.98 billion+32.5M2020WikipediaRevision
18The Chainsmokers and Halsey3.95 billion+40M2016WikipediaRevision
19Billie Eilish and Khalid3.93 billion+30M2018WikipediaRevision
20James Arthur3.73 billion+24.2M2016WikipediaRevision
21Hozier3.64 billion+32.5M2013WikipediaRevision
22Ed Sheeran3.60 billion+32.5M2014WikipediaRevision
23Tones And I3.54 billion+16.7M2019WikipediaRevision
24Post Malone and 21 Savage3.48 billion+16.7M2017WikipediaRevision
25Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello3.46 billion+25.8M2019WikipediaRevision
26Justin Bieber3.41 billion+30.8M2015WikipediaRevision
27DJ Snake and Justin Bieber3.29 billion+37.5M2016WikipediaRevision
28Ed Sheeran3.26 billion+25M2014WikipediaRevision
29Juice Wrld3.23 billion+18.3M2018WikipediaRevision
30Drake3.22 billion+29.2M2018WikipediaRevision
31Justin Bieber3.13 billion+30M2015WikipediaRevision
32Billie Eilish3.00 billion+15.8M2019WikipediaRevision
33Major Lazer, DJ Snake, and MØ2.84 billion+25M2015WikipediaRevision
34Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars2.84 billion+30.8M2014WikipediaRevision

No longer in the top 100, so without a current figure: (Dua Lipa, 2.39 billion on Aug 31, 2025); (Camila Cabello and Young Thug, 2.31 billion on Jun 29, 2025); (Mike Posner with Seeb, 2.02 billion on Sep 29, 2024); (Shawn Mendes, 1.83 billion on Feb 29, 2024); (The Chainsmokers featuring Daya, 1.81 billion on Jan 31, 2024); (Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber, 1.64 billion on Jul 31, 2023); (Sia, 1.62 billion on Jun 30, 2023); (Lukas Graham, 1.54 billion on Mar 31, 2023); (Justin Bieber, 1.27 billion on Jan 31, 2022); (Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ, 1.24 billion on Dec 30, 2021); (Omi and Felix Jaehn, 1.24 billion on Dec 30, 2021); (The Weeknd, 1.23 billion on Nov 29, 2021); (Adele, 1.12 billion on Apr 28, 2021).

Questions

Answered from the same figures as the table, so the answers change when the numbers do.

What is the most-streamed song on Spotify?

Blinding Lights by The Weeknd, with 5.67 billion streams as of Nov 4, 2026. Shape of You by Ed Sheeran is second with 5.17 billion and Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood third with 5.01 billion.

Which songs have been the most-streamed on Spotify?

Since Oct 2016, 3 songs have held the top spot: One Dance (in Oct 2016), then Shape of You (from September 2017), then Blinding Lights (from December 2022).

What was the first song to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify?

One Dance by Drake, Wizkid, and Kyla was the first song on the list past 1 billion streams, in December 2016 (between two monthly readings).

What was the first song to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify?

Shape of You by Ed Sheeran was the first song on the list past 2 billion streams, in December 2018 (between two monthly readings).

What was the first song to reach 3 billion streams on Spotify?

Shape of You by Ed Sheeran was the first song on the list past 3 billion streams, in December 2021 (between two monthly readings).

What was the first song to reach 4 billion streams on Spotify?

Blinding Lights by The Weeknd was the first song on the list past 4 billion streams, in January 2024 (between two monthly readings).

What was the first song to reach 5 billion streams on Spotify?

Blinding Lights by The Weeknd was the first song on the list past 5 billion streams, in August 2025 (between two monthly readings).

How are the streams counted?

They are Spotify's own play counts for each song, as Wikipedia's list of Spotify streaming records reported them. Spotify counts a stream when a song plays for 30 seconds or more. The race reads one version of the list a month; between readings the bars move at an even pace, so the in-between values are estimates; the monthly figures are exact.

Why does the race start in 2016?

That is when Wikipedia's list first kept a table of the most-streamed songs. Each month's version of that table is a dated reading of every song's total, so the race can show how the order changed. Before Oct 2016 there is no table to read.

Where do the figures come from?

From 122 versions of Wikipedia's list of Spotify streaming records, read one a month, each linked to its exact revision. Wikipedia's editors read the figures from Spotify. A song's total only grows, so a figure that would make it go down (a typo in that version) isn't used.

How often is this page updated?

Updates are manual for now. The list was last read on Nov 6, 2026.

How this is built

Every monthly figure traces back to a dated Wikipedia revision. Values between monthly readings are evened out, so they're estimates.

Sources

The table of most-streamed songs in Wikipedia's list of Spotify streaming records, read as it stood on the first of each month since Oct 2016 (122 versions), and again on . Its editors read each song's count from Spotify.

What counts

All-time Spotify streams per song, as the list reported them. A song races once it has made the list's top 15. Each version is dated by its own "as of" note. Totals only grow, so a figure that breaks a song's longest never-falling run (a typo in that version) isn't used. Colors show when each song came out.

How the race moves

Between monthly readings the bars move at an even pace, so those values are estimates. A song released while the race runs starts from zero on its release day. Songs that later dropped out of the top 100 hold their last listed total.

Data

JSON34 songs, with every monthly figure behind each barCSVOne row per song per reading, for spreadsheets

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Photo credits · 23 photos from Wikimedia Commons