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Chart Data and Apple Music Reveal Top 20 Most‑Streamed Artists of All Time

Apple Music’s repost gives a rare window into roughly 11 years of platform listening.

Overview

  • Chart Data published the all‑time top‑20 Apple Music ranking on Thursday, June 18, and Apple Music’s official account quickly reposted it.
  • Drake is listed as the platform’s most‑streamed artist ever and Taylor Swift is the highest‑ranked female artist at No. 2.
  • The full list includes artists such as Future, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Eminem and Morgan Wallen at No. 8.
  • Hip‑hop and rap dominate the chart, occupying 16 of the 20 slots, with Morgan Wallen the lone country crossover and a few pop stars rounding out the rest.
  • Apple has not published the ranking’s methodology or promoted it in the app, so the post provides a limited but notable public glimpse of Apple Music’s aggregate listening that could increase calls for more platform data.