{"id":47242,"date":"2025-09-22T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/drake-makes-history-as-first-artist-to-hit-120-billion-spotify-streams\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:27:17","slug":"drake-makes-history-as-first-artist-to-hit-120-billion-spotify-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/drake-makes-history-as-first-artist-to-hit-120-billion-spotify-streams\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Makes History As First Artist To Hit 120 Billion Spotify Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/artist\/drake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a> may have suffered a very public L in his high-profile battle with Kendrick Lamar last year, but it doesn\u2019t appear to have hurt his popularity.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chartdata\/status\/1969773620487487831\" target=\"_blank\">Chart Data<\/a><\/em>, the 6 God has just become the first-ever artist to amass 120 billion streams on Spotify across all credits (including both his solo output and collaborations with other artists).<\/p>\n<p>It means Drake has extended his lead as the most-streamed artist on the world\u2019s most popular music streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>To put that mammoth figure into context, the second most-streamed artist on Spotify is Taylor Swift who has just over 110 billion (and counting) spins to her name, per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kworb.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kworb<\/a><\/em> \u2014 a staggering 10 billion behind Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny, who is third on that list, is the only other artist with over 100 billion streams, while The Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran all trail with 84.5 billion, 64.2 billion and 59.6 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"optanon-category-C0003\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX7QOv5kjbU68?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Taking a closer look at Drake\u2019s catalog, \u201cOne Dance\u201d is his most-streamed song on Spotify with over 3.7 billion plays. The <em><a class=\"underline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/reviews\/drake-views\/\" target=\"_blank\">Views<\/a><\/em> hit also holds the distinction of being his first solo number one on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d follows with 2.8 billion streams, while \u201cPassionfruit\u201d (1.9 billion), \u201cWork\u201d (1.5 billion) and \u201cHotline Bling\u201d (1.5 billion) round out his top five tracks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether Drake or Spotify plan to celebrate the achievement, but when the Toronto titan reached 100 billion streams back in 2022, <a class=\"underline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/drake-barcelona-jersey-spotify-50-billion-streams\/\" target=\"_blank\">he was honored with his very own FC Barcelona jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish soccer giants, who are sponsored by Spotify, wore special OVO owl jerseys during their El Cl\u00e1sico clash with fierce rivals Real Madrid that October (fittingly enough).<\/p>\n<p>The so-called <a class=\"underline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/drake-wins-super-bowl-bet-kansas-city-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDrake curse\u201d<\/a> appeared to strike again, however, as Bar\u00e7a suffered a 3-1 defeat in that game. Top scorer Robert Lewandowski and co. ended up winning the La Liga title that season, though, so maybe the loss was all part of God\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/drake-spotify-streams-120-billion\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake may have suffered a very public L in his high-profile battle with Kendrick Lamar last year, but it doesn\u2019t appear to have hurt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":47243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}