Spotify's Top 10 Most-Streamed Artists of 2025

This RouteNote blog post details Spotify's top 10 most-streamed artists of all time as of January 2025, led by Taylor Swift. The post differentiates between "lead" (primary artist) and "featured" streams, explaining its methodology using data from ChartMasters. It highlights the streaming milestones of several artists, including Drake and Taylor Swift, and provides a breakdown of the top 10 artists by genre, country of origin, and stream counts. The blog also discusses the differences between total playcounts and monthly listeners as metrics for artist popularity on Spotify. Finally, it promotes RouteNote's services for independent artists.