Ranked: Spotify’s Most Streamed Albums Ever
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Key Takeaways
- Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is Spotify’s most-streamed album ever with nearly 23 billion plays.
- Only two albums in Spotify history have surpassed 20 billion streams.
- The Weeknd leads all artists with three albums among Spotify’s top 20 most-streamed records.
In less than 20 years, Spotify has completely reshaped the music industry, turning albums into billion-stream global franchises.
This graphic ranks the 20 most-streamed albums in Spotify history as of late April 2026, using stream totals sourced directly from Spotify in honor of the platform’s 20th anniversary.
Only two albums have ever crossed the 20-billion stream mark, led by Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti, which sits comfortably ahead of every other release on the platform.
Official deluxe and expanded editions were included where applicable, reflecting how streaming-era albums increasingly rely on larger tracklists to maximize reach and replay value.
The Artists Defining Spotify’s Streaming Era
Spotify’s all-time leaderboard shows how dramatically music consumption has shifted in the streaming age. Nearly every album in the top 20 was released after 2015, reflecting how streaming platforms accelerated global reach, playlist discovery, and repeat listening at massive scale.
Latin pop, hip hop, and crossover R&B dominate the rankings, with artists like Bad Bunny, Drake, and The Weeknd building audiences measured not in album sales, but in tens of billions of streams.
The data table below lists the highest-streamed albums in Spotify history as of late April 2026.
| Rank | Album | Streams (Billions) | Artist | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Un Verano Sin Ti | 22.79 | Bad Bunny | 2022 |
| 2 | Starboy | 20.97 | The Weeknd | 2016 |
| 3 | ÷ | 18.99 | Ed Sheeran | 2017 |
| 4 | SOUR | 17.96 | Olivia Rodrigo | 2021 |
| 5 | Future Nostalgia | 17.74 | Dua Lipa | 2020 |
| 6 | SOS | 17.62 | SZA | 2022 |
| 7 | Hollywood's Bleeding | 16.37 | Post Malone | 2019 |
| 8 | Lover | 16.36 | Taylor Swift | 2019 |
| 9 | After Hours | 16.10 | The Weeknd | 2020 |
| 10 | AM | 15.22 | Arctic Monkeys | 2013 |
| 11 | Scorpion | 14.86 | Drake | 2018 |
| 12 | beerbongs & bentleys | 14.77 | Post Malone | 2018 |
| 13 | Mañana Será Bonito | 14.24 | KAROL G | 2023 |
| 14 | Views | 14.19 | Drake | 2016 |
| 15 | YHLQMDLG | 14.11 | Bad Bunny | 2020 |
| 16 | Midnights | 14.02 | Taylor Swift | 2022 |
| 17 | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? | 13.70 | Billie Eilish | 2019 |
| 18 | ? | 12.59 | XXXTENTACION | 2018 |
| 19 | Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 12.32 | Bruno Mars | 2010 |
| 20 | Beauty Behind The Madness | 11.53 | The Weeknd | 2015 |
Bad Bunny: The World’s Biggest Artist
In 2016, Bad Bunny was bagging groceries at a local store in his native Puerto Rico. A decade later, he has racked up Grammy wins, headlined the Super Bowl, and claimed the highest-streaming album in Spotify history.
Bad Bunny’s 2022 album, Un Verano Sin Ti (“A Summer Without You”), has accumulated over 22.8 billion streams within just four years, well ahead of any of its peers. “Tití Me Preguntó,” the album’s smash hit that opened his Super Bowl halftime set, has racked up more than 2 billion streams alone.
Despite its massive success, Un Verano Sin Ti is not Bad Bunny’s only appearance among Spotify’s all-time top albums.
YHLQMDLG (an acronym that translates to “I Do What I Want”), his second studio album and one of his two major releases in 2020, has also surpassed 14.1 billion streams, powered by its hit lead single “Vete.”
Toronto Putting Canada on the Map
Five Canadian albums rank among Spotify’s top 20 most-streamed releases of all time. All five were created by artists from Toronto: pop R&B giant The Weeknd and rap superstar Drake.
The Weeknd’s Starboy (2016) is Spotify’s all-time runner-up, accumulating more than 21 billion streams in its first decade. Along with 2020’s After Hours and 2015’s Beauty Behind The Madness, The Weeknd is the only artist to appear on the list three times.
Fellow Torontonian Drake has achieved notable success of his own. His 2016 record Views has accumulated more than 14.2 billion streams within a decade, while its follow-up Scorpion (2018) surpassed it with 14.9 billion streams.
Spotify’s Impact on Albums
Streaming has also changed how albums are made.
Because every song contributes to total stream counts, many artists began releasing longer albums packed with bonus tracks, deluxe editions, and expanded re-releases designed to maximize listening time on platforms like Spotify.
Some of Spotify’s biggest albums reflect this trend directly. Drake’s Scorpion contains 25 songs, while Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti and SZA’s SOS both exceed 20 tracks.
However, the trend may be reversing. Olivia Rodrigo maintains the highest-streamed album from an artist in the continental U.S., with her 2021 debut SOUR reaching 18 billion streams despite containing only 11 tracks. Meanwhile, global pop sensation Taylor Swift limited her most recent album, The Life of a Showgirl (2025), to just 12 songs.
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