The Most Streamed Album on Spotify, for Each of the Last 10 Years

The Most Streamed Album on Spotify (2014 to 2023)

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Alongside YouTube and Apple Music, Spotify is one of the top paid music streaming services in the U.S., with the platform totaling 626 million users across 180 markets, as of July 2024.

Spotify Wrapped, the platform’s highly anticipated year-end campaign, highlights listeners’ trends from the past year. In the same spirit, we’re taking a look back at the most popular albums on Spotify each year over the past decade.

The graphic visualizes the top-streamed albums on Spotify from 2014 to 2023 using data from Spotify, Complex, Wikipedia, and Visual Capitalist estimates.

Top-Streamed Albums Each Year In The Past Decade

Below, we show the the most-streamed album from 2014 to 2023 and their respective number of streams.

Year	Album	Streams
2023	Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny	4.5 billion
2022	Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny	8.0 billion
2021	SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo	4.2 billion
2020	YHLQMDLG by Bad Bunny	3.3 billion
2019	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish	4.0 billion
2018	Scorpion by Drake	4.0 billion
2017	÷ by Ed Sheeran	3.1 billion
2016	Views by Drake	2.5 billion
2015	Beauty Behind The Madness by The Weeknd	1.4 billion*
2014	x by Ed Sheeran	430 million

*Visual Capitalist estimate, based on the lead single accounting for 30% of album streams.

Bad Bunny stands out as the only artist with the same album topping the most-streamed list twice, and he boasts three albums that have claimed the title in different years. Drake and Ed Sheeran each have had two different albums reach the number one spot.

Bad Bunny’s record-breaking album Un Verano Sin Ti dominated the charts for two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023, and currently holds the title of Spotify’s most-streamed album of all time.

It was also the first fully Spanish album to be nominated for the Grammy Album of the Year.

Un Verano Sin Ti showcases a vibrant mix of Caribbean music styles, including bachata, reggae, and bossa nova. The album was largely recorded in the Dominican Republic and Bad Bunny’s native Puerto Rico.

Olivia Rodrigo’s “SOUR” is currently the most-streamed album on Spotify by a female artist.

Her viral debut single “drivers license” was also the most-streamed song on Spotify in 2021. The autobiographical breakup song exploded on TikTok and shot straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 upon release.

Rodrigo and Billie Eilish are the only female artists with top-streamed albums, with SOUR and WHEN WE FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, respectively. Notably, both albums were their debuts.

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