- Chart Data confirmed the ranking on June 18, with 16 of the top 20 spots belonging to hip-hop acts.
- Drake has been named the most streamed artist of all time on Apple Music, topping a list released by Chart Data on June 18, 2026.
Drake has been named the most streamed artist of all time on Apple Music, topping a list released by Chart Data on June 18, 2026. Chart Data confirmed this was the first time Apple had shared the all-time streaming list. The announcement landed on a Wednesday, drawing swift attention from music fans and analysts across the globe.
Chart Data, marking its 10th anniversary, partnered with Apple Music to unveil the rankings, with the Toronto superstar claiming the number one position ahead of a field packed with American rap talent. The list covers cumulative streams since the platform’s launch and spans eleven years of listener data.
Apple Music named Drake its most streamed artist of 2026, and he holds 27 songs in Apple Music’s all-time top 500 most-streamed tracks, more than any other artist on the platform. That catalog depth, sources told reporters covering the story, separates him from every competitor on the chart.
Taylor Swift follows in second place, earning the title of the most-streamed female artist in Apple Music history. But the story of Swift on the platform carries an edge. Before Apple Music even debuted, she publicly pushed back against the company’s original plan to withhold artist royalties during a free three-month trial period, and Apple reversed course, prompting Swift to make her album 1989 available on the service.
Future landed third on the list, followed by YoungBoy Never Broke Again in fourth and Bad Bunny in fifth. As gathered by Westtrybe, positions six through ten on the all-time chart read as follows: Lil Baby at number six, The Weeknd at number seven, Morgan Wallen at number eight, Kanye West at number nine, and Post Malone at number ten.
Sixteen of the twenty spots on the full list belonged to hip-hop acts, reinforcing the genre’s influence on how audiences consume music today. Country singer Morgan Wallen’s appearance at number eight stands as one of the few departures from that pattern across the top ten rankings.
In 2026, Drake made history on the Billboard 200 by debuting three projects, ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR, in the top three spots simultaneously. ICEMAN alone earned 171,000 equivalent album units in the United States during the week ending June 4. Those numbers fed directly back into his Apple Music stream count at a scale few artists can replicate.
Unlike many legacy artists who slow down over time, Drake has maintained a steady release schedule, and his ability to drop surprise projects, collaborate across genres, and stay active in the culture has helped sustain his streaming performance. Chart Data noted the achievement without qualification on its verified social media account the evening of June 18.
Apple Music launched on June 30, 2015, meaning the all-time rankings reflect eleven full years of listener behaviour across its global subscriber base. The platform has not disclosed total stream counts attached to any position on the list. Drake’s position atop the most streamed artist of all time ranking on Apple Music now stands as the single most definitive measure of his commercial reach in the streaming era.
