The 22-year-old singer is ahead of Canadian singer The Weeknd and American Taylor Swift.
“Worldwide number 1 on Spotify, I really can’t believe it. I love you all so much, this is the craziest thing ever” Billie Eilish reacted on social media on Tuesday. Last Thursday, The Weeknd, who had previously held the top spot, had posted a very fair-play message to his competitor: «Let’s go !»sharing the Spotify listening figures of the woman who would, a few days later, surpass him and thus become the first most listened to female artist on the platform.
The 22-year-old artist passed the Canadian singer with 100.1 million monthly listeners on the music platform. The Weeknd was at 99 million monthly listeners according to Music Business Worldwide. Since then, the numbers have continued to increase, narrowing the gap: 105.8 million listeners for Billie Eilish and 105 million for The Weeknd as of Tuesday.
Having appeared at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games from Los Angeles during the Olympic flag relay, Billie Eilish released her latest album last May, Hit Me Hard and Soft. This album was unanimously acclaimed in the French press, and reached second place in the Billboard Top 200. Only five years after the release of her first studio album, she already has millions of fans and billions of streams, all platforms combined.
In addition to being at the top of monthly listens on Spotify, she is also at the top of Barack Obama’s playlist with her sound Chihiro. Since 2015, the former President of the United States has shared his Spotify playlist every summer, the « Barack Obama’s Summer Playlist ».