According to Guinness World Records Toronto’s very own The Weeknd is statistically the Most Popular Artist on the planet!
The 33-year-old Canadian superstar has scored many awards in his career and set 2 more new Guinness World Records:
The Most Monthly Listeners on Spotify 112.5 Million (as of March 23, 2023)
The First Artist To Reach 100 Million monthly listeners on Spotify
The Weeknd currently has 30 million more monthly listeners than Miley Cyrus with 82.4 million, Shakira 81.6 million, Ariana Grande 80.6 million, Taylor Swift 80.2 million, Rihanna 78.5 million, and his closest male challenger, Ed Sheeran with 77.5 million.
These are not The Weeknd’s first Guinness World Records titles. In 2016 he was awarded two certificates: one for the most streamed album on Spotify in 2015, and another for the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 by a solo male artist.
“Blinding Lights” from The Weeknd’s 4th album, After Hours, remains the most streamed track on Spotify, with over 3.4 billion streams as of February 2023. The song ousted Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” which had held the top spot since September 2017.
The “DIE FOR YOU” remix recently peaked at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the 7th #1 hit for both The Weeknd and Ariana Grande respectively.
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