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The 10 Most Streamed Songs on Spotify of All Time
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd holds the record as the most streamed song on Spotify of all time, with over 5.3 billion streams. It reached the top spot in January 2023, overtaking Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You. The track became the first song ever to cross 4 billion streams in January 2024, then 5 billion shortly after. Released in March 2019, Blinding Lights spent more than 90 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, a testament to its longevity and cross-genre appeal.
Top 10 Most Streamed Songs on Spotify All Time
The list below reflects Spotify’s official records as of early 2026, per Wikipedia’s streaming records page and Spotify’s April 2026 anniversary post. Stream counts are rounded to the nearest hundred million.
1. Blinding Lights | The Weeknd | 5.3 billion+ The Weeknd’s 2019 synth-pop hit became Spotify’s all-time leader through sheer longevity. It dominated charts for years and became a pandemic-era phenomenon, soundtracking millions of lockdown playlists.
2. Shape of You | Ed Sheeran | 4.8 billion+ Released in January 2017, Shape of You held the all-time record before being overtaken in 2023. Its simple, catchy hook made it one of the most replayed tracks in Spotify history.
3. Sweater Weather | The Neighbourhood | 4.5 billion+ A 2012 track that TikTok basically resurrected. The song went viral in 2021 and 2022, driving billions of new streams and landing it in the all-time top three.
4. Starboy | The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk | 4.5 billion+ Another Weeknd entry, this one powered by Daft Punk’s production and a star-studded music video. It benefited from years of sustained playlist adds.
5. As It Was | Harry Styles | 4.4 billion+ Harry Styles’ 2022 solo hit racked up streams fast, aided by a viral TikTok dance and heavy radio rotation. It held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks.
6. Someone You Loved | Lewis Capaldi | 4.3 billion+ This 2019 heartbreak ballad became a streaming sleeper hit, gaining momentum through playlist culture and Capaldi’s viral social media presence.
7. Sunflower | Post Malone ft. Swae Lee | 4.2 billion+ The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack opener was a massive radio and streaming hit from 2018 onward, boosted by the film’s cultural footprint.
8. One Dance | Drake ft. Wizkid and Kyla | 4.2 billion+ Drake’s 2016 Afrobeats-influenced track was one of the earliest songs to prove streaming could drive a song to chart dominance over weeks of sustained plays.
9. Perfect | Ed Sheeran | 3.9 billion+ A wedding playlist staple since 2017, Perfect built its stream count slowly over years of romantic occasions and radio airplay.
10. Stay | The Kid Laroi ft. Justin Bieber | 3.9 billion+ Released in July 2021, Stay climbed charts rapidly and held the top spot on the Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks.
One thing worth noting: the all-time top 10 has a stark gender gap. Every artist in the top 10 is male or a male-dominated group. No female solo artists crack the list, which reflects both streaming patterns and the relatively recent scale of Spotify’s global user base.
Why Does This List Look Like This?
Two things explain why this list skews toward 2015 to 2022. First, Spotify had a fraction of its current user base for most of its first decade after launching in 2008. Songs released before 2015 simply never had access to the same volume of potential listeners. Older classics cannot catch up on a list built primarily from cumulative streams.
Second, playlist culture and TikTok virality play an outsized role. Sweater Weather, a 2012 song, sits at number three entirely because it went viral on TikTok in 2021 and 2022, driving billions of retroactive streams. Heat Waves by Glass Animals followed a similar path, gaining a second life through slow-burn YouTube popularity and playlist adds years after its initial release. These are not the songs people discovered at release, but the ones they returned to in bulk. That replay dynamic pushes older songs up the all-time list in ways that were impossible before streaming.
Most Streamed Songs by Year
The all-time list and the yearly Wrapped lists tell different stories. All-time rankings reflect cumulative streams over years. Wrapped winners reflect who dominated in a single year.
- 2024: “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter
- 2025: “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso topped Wrapped 2024 with massive TikTok presence and radio airplay. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s collaboration took 2025, reflecting broad pop appeal and strong streaming numbers across demographics.
Year-by-year charts shift quickly. The all-time list changes slowly. They measure different things. The all-time rankings reflect platform history and listener behavior over more than a decade. The yearly lists capture a single moment in pop culture. Both are worth knowing, but they answer different questions.
How Spotify Tracks These Numbers
Spotify counts a stream each time a user plays a song for 30 seconds or longer. Counts update daily across the platform. The official sources for current records are:
- Spotify Newsroom (newsroom.spotify.com): official announcements and anniversary posts
- Spotify Charts (charts.spotify.com): daily and weekly streaming data
- Wikipedia “List of Spotify streaming records”: crowdsourced and frequently updated with citations to primary sources
- kworb.net: third-party aggregator that tracks Spotify chart positions and streaming records
Stream counts grow every day. Numbers in this article reflect data available as of early 2026.