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Every Song With Over 1 Billion Spotify Streams
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Spotify has a relatively short history, launching in Europe in 2008, and eventually moving into the U.S. market in 2011. Since then, the Stockholm-based company has become the world’s most popular audio streaming service with 456 million users across 183 markets.
With such a large userbase, major artists on Spotify have seen their biggest hits accumulate millions, if not billions of streams. So, in July 2021, Spotify created the Billions Club, a playlist comprising every song to reach the 1 billion milestone.
We at Visual Capitalist saw this as an opportunity to create a unique data visualization, so we compiled the entire playlist and arranged it by decade and artist.
The Top 10 Artists
Below are the top 10 artists, ranked by their number of songs with over 1 billion streams. The list actually includes 11 artists because Shawn Mendes, Bruno Mars, and Coldplay are tied with 5 songs in the Billions Club.
| Rank | Artist | Artist's Monthly Listens | Songs With 1 Billion+ Streams |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Sheeran | 76M | 11 |
| 2 | Post Malone | 51M | 9 |
| 2 | The Weeknd | 79M | 9 |
| 4 | XXXTENTACION | 34M | 8 |
| 5 | Ariana Grande | 56M | 7 |
| 5 | Maroon 5 | 50M | 7 |
| 7 | Drake | 68M | 6 |
| 7 | Eminem | 59M | 6 |
| 9 | Shawn Mendes | 43M | 5 |
| 9 | Bruno Mars | 51M | 5 |
| 9 | Coldplay | 59M | 5 |
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