Discover the Most Streamed Song on Spotify: Chart-Topping Tracks and Streaming Milestones

Spotify has revolutionized the music industry, becoming the go-to platform for music lovers worldwide. With millions of songs at your fingertips, it’s fascinating to see which tracks resonate the most with listeners globally. Dive into the definitive list of the most streamed songs on Spotify and explore the records broken, milestones achieved, and artists who have conquered the digital airwaves.

#	Title	Artist	Image	Streams	Daily Streams	Year	Genre	Language
1	Blinding Lights	The Weeknd	Album cover for Blinding Lights by The Weeknd	4,732,273,218	1,468,910	2019	Pop	English
2	Shape of You	Ed Sheeran	Album cover for Shape of You by Ed Sheeran	4,245,928,724	1,524,345	2017	Pop	English
3	Someone You Loved	Lewis Capaldi		3,817,730,989	1,170,489	2018	Pop	English
4	As It Was	Harry Styles		3,779,162,013	1,226,771	2022	Pop	English
5	Starboy	The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk	Album cover for Starboy by The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk	3,771,888,837	1,635,802	2016	R&B	English
6	Sunflower	Post Malone & Swae Lee	Album cover for Sunflower by Post Malone & Swae Lee	3,726,612,422	1,121,008	2018	Pop	English
7	Sweater Weather	The Neighbourhood		3,609,056,945	2,049,658	2012	Rock	English
8	One Dance	Drake ft. Wizkid & Kyla	Album cover for One Dance by Drake ft. Wizkid & Kyla	3,547,169,967	1,083,421	2016	Reggae / Dancehall	English
9	Stay	The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber		3,480,913,793	1,037,025	2021	Pop	English
10	Believer	Imagine Dragons	Album cover for Believer by Imagine Dragons	3,344,531,576	1,145,883	2017	Rock	English
11	Perfect	Ed Sheeran	Album cover for Shape of You by Ed Sheeran	3,320,187,597	1,621,772	2017	Pop	English
12	Heat Waves	Glass Animals		3,305,939,991	956,106	2020	Alternative	English
13	Dance Monkey	Tones And I	Album cover for Dance Monkey by Tones And I	3,222,296,003	534,104	2019	Pop	English
14	Lovely	Billie Eilish & Khalid		3,216,369,658	1,234,033	2018	Pop	English
15	Say You Won’t Let Go	James Arthur	Album cover for Say You Won't Let Go by James Arthur	3,180,478,107	783,044	2016	Pop	English
16	Closer	The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey	Album cover for Closer by The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey	3,168,820,688	1,243,581	2016	Electronic	English
17	Rockstar	Post Malone ft. 21 Savage	Album cover for Rockstar by Post Malone ft. 21 Savage	3,129,884,677	615,182	2017	Hip-hop	English
18	Something Just Like This	The Chainsmokers & Coldplay	Album cover for Something Just Like This by The Chainsmokers & Coldplay	3,038,767,400	1,593,351	2017	Electronic	English
19	Riptide	Vance Joy		2,991,306,417	1,296,491	2013	Folk	English
20	Watermelon Sugar	Harry Styles		2,947,700,296	873,749	2019	Pop	English
21	SeÃ±orita	Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello		2,946,681,368	734,184	2019	Pop	English
22	Take Me To Church	Hozier		2,924,050,447	1,373,228	2013	Rock	English
23	Another Love	Tom Odell		2,911,378,297	1,452,525	2012	Alternative	English
24	I Wanna Be Yours	Arctic Monkeys		2,869,381,235	2,122,627	2013	Alternative	English
25	Yellow	Coldplay		2,863,948,164	2,114,457	2000	Alternative	English

Data up to date as of [current date]. Streams are constantly updating.

Milestones of Streaming Supremacy: The Evolution of Spotify’s Top Tracks

The journey to becoming the Most Streamed Song On Spotify is a fascinating race, marked by evolving milestones and shifting contenders. Only a handful of songs have ever held the coveted title of the all-time most streamed track on Spotify. Before the streaming era truly took hold, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida was an early leader.

As streaming gained momentum, tracks like Human by The Killers and Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You stepped into the spotlight, each reigning for over a thousand days. Notably, Ed Sheeran’s dominance is further highlighted by Shape of You being the only song to have twice held the top spot, with Thinking Out Loud previously leading the charts in 2015. This underscores Sheeran’s consistent appeal and ability to create songs that capture global attention.

From Millions to Billions: A Look at Streaming Growth

In the early days of music streaming, reaching 500 million streams was a significant achievement. Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud marked a pivotal moment, becoming the first song to surpass this milestone on October 11, 2015. The pace of streaming adoption then accelerated dramatically.

Just over a year later, on December 15, 2015, Drake’s One Dance became the first song to break the billion-stream barrier, signaling a new era of massive digital consumption. Shape Of You continued to push boundaries, becoming the first to reach 2 billion streams on December 10, 2018, and then an unprecedented 3 billion streams on December 22, 2021.

The current leader, The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights, passed the 4 billion mark on January 12, 2024, and is now projected to hit 5 billion streams in 2025. The sheer density of streams at the top is also increasing rapidly. Currently, a song needs nearly 3 billion streams to break into the top 20. The threshold for the top 100 is over 2 billion streams, and even songs in the top 1,000 are rapidly approaching the billion-stream milestone. Remarkably, over 2,500 tracks have now surpassed 500 million streams on Spotify, with new songs joining this list almost daily, demonstrating the ever-expanding landscape of popular music on streaming platforms.

Streaming Records: Songs That Broke the Mold

Several songs have set remarkable records in the world of Spotify streaming, showcasing the dynamic nature of music consumption in the digital age.

Taylor Swift and Post Malone’s collaboration, Fortnight, achieved the biggest debut and single-day stream count ever, racking up an astounding 25,204,472 filtered streams on April 19, 2024. Among non-debut tracks, Mariah Carey’s holiday classic, All I Want For Christmas Is You, holds the record for the highest daily streams with 23,701,697 plays, while Miley Cyrus’ Flowers leads non-holiday songs with 18,424,325 streams in a single day, achieved early in its release.

Flowers and Fortnight also lead in weekly streams, being the only songs to ever surpass 100 million streams in a single week, with Flowers at 115,156,896 and Fortnight at 102,878,399 streams respectively.

In terms of longevity, Tones and I’s Dance Monkey stands out for its remarkable 120-day reign at the top of the Spotify daily chart. For weekly chart dominance, Post Malone ft. 21 Savage’s Rockstar leads with an impressive 17 weeks at number one.