Abel Tesfaye popularly known as The Weeknd or Starboy is statistically the most popular musician on earth according to Guinness World Records.
The 33-year-old Canadian singer’s success has seen him set two new Guinness World Records titles, the most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023), and the First artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
The Weeknd currently has almost 30 million more monthly listeners than second-placed Miley Cyrus (82.4 million).
He is also comfortably ahead of Shakira (81.6 million), Ariana Grande (80.6 million), Taylor Swift (80.2 million), Rihanna (78.5 million), and his closest male challenger, Ed Sheeran (77.5 million).
The Weeknd’s surging streaming figures come on the back of the release of his “Die For You” remix featuring Ariana Grande, which went viral on TikTok.
The track peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the seventh number-one hit for both The Weeknd and Grande respectively.
These aren’t The Weeknd’s first Guinness World Records titles. In 2016 he was awarded two certificates; one for the most streamed album on Spotify in 2015, and another for the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 by a solo male artist.
The album was Beauty Behind the Madness, which, led by the single “Can’t Feel My Face”, propelled The Weeknd to global superstardom.
