This comes after the musician became the first artist and thus far the only act in Spotify history to reach the milestone of 100 million monthly listeners.
The Weeknd was named the most popular artist in the world in terms of statistics of Spotify According to a new report from Guinness World Records in which the data from the platform of some of the most important artists in the music industry were analyzed.
The number of monthly listeners on the streaming platform is a key metric in the Guinness report. Abel Tesfayealso know as The Weekndhas 111.4 million monthly listeners.
It comes weeks after Tesfaye became the first artist and so far the only act in the history of Spotify to reach the milestone of 100 million monthly listeners.
The next artist on the list is Miley Cyrus, which currently has 82.4 million monthly listeners. Other artists behind The Weeknd include Shakira (81.6 million), Ariana Grande (80.6 million), Taylor Swift (80.2 million), Rihanna (78.5 million) and Ed Sheeran (77.5 million).
In January, the song “Blinding Lights” of The Weeknd surpassed “Shape Of You” by Sheeran to become Spotify’s most streamed song of all time.
Towards the end of 2021, “Blinding Lights” was also officially crowned the biggest single of all time on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song, which appeared on the album “After Hours” by Tesfaye and released in late 2019, it spent over 100 weeks on the charts.
Source: Ambito
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