The numbers are almost impossible to comprehend. Drake has officially surpassed 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify for the first time in his career. The 39-year-old rapper joins Taylor Swift as the only artists in platform history to cross the nine-figure threshold.
The Spotify milestone arrived Sunday morning and sent fans into a celebration frenzy across social media. Drake now stands alongside Swift, who reached 111 million monthly listeners during her “The Life of a Showgirl” tour last year.
The Drake 100 million monthly listeners achievement didn’t happen by accident. The rapper released “For All the Dogs: Encore Edition” in April, adding five new tracks to his 2023 blockbuster album. The expanded project included collaborations with J. Cole, SZA, and a surprise feature from Bad Bunny.
Streaming data suggests three songs are driving the surge. “Rich Baby Daddy” with Sexyy Red and SZA continues to pull 12 million weekly streams. “IDGAF” with Yeat has found a second life on TikTok workout playlists. And “Virginia Beach,” the album’s opener, has become a sleeper hit with 8 million weekly streams eight months after release.
Drake also benefited from playlist placements. Spotify placed six Drake songs on its massive “Today’s Top Hits” playlist, which has over 31 million followers. The rapper’s catalog now accounts for nearly 2% of all streams on the platform.
One hundred million monthly listeners means that in the last 28 days, over 100 million unique Spotify accounts played at least one Drake song. To put that in perspective, that’s more people than the population of Egypt. It’s roughly the same as every person in Germany, France, and Italy combined.
Drake has not publicly commented on the Spotify milestone. Instead, he posted a single emoji on Instagram Stories: a red circle with a line through it, the same zero he’s been using since 2024’s “100” marketing campaign. The rapper is currently on a brief touring break before launching a co-headlining stadium run with Kendrick Lamar in September.
