It’s official: The Weeknd is statistically the preferred artist on this planet in response to Guinness World Data.
The group proffered the title upon the pop star on Monday after analyzing the Spotify information of a number of the largest names within the music business, together with variety of month-to-month listeners on the streaming platform.
Contemplating the artist in any other case often called Abel Tesfaye holds the file as the primary, and to date solely, artist in Spotify historical past to succeed in 100 million month-to-month listeners as of the top of February, he’s far and away on the high of the category. And but, even within the few weeks since he crossed the nine-figure threshold, the “Starboy” singer has gained much more streaming followers — as much as 111.4 million, in response to the Guinness report.
And there’s fairly the large berth between that mind-boggling quantity and the following artist on the listing, Miley Cyrus, who presently tallies 82.4 million month-to-month listeners within the wake of releasing her hotly anticipated eighth studio album Infinite Summer season Trip. Different artists who path The Weeknd embrace Shakira (81.6 million), Ariana Grande (80.6 million), Taylor Swift (80. 2 million), Rihanna (78.5 million) and Ed Sheeran (77.5 million).
Somewhat over per week in the past, The Weeknd swept the 2023 Juno Awards in his native Canada, taking house 4 awards, together with each artist of the 12 months and songwriter of the 12 months for a file fourth time; single of the 12 months for a 3rd time (for 2022’s “Sacrifice”)l and pop album of the 12 months (for Daybreak FM).