Drake has more Spotify streams than Kendrick Lamar. In SpotifyStats’ October 8, 2026 all-time ranking, Drake has 142.4 billion streams and Kendrick has 58.3 billion—a gap of about 84.1 billion, calculated from the tracker’s rounded figures. These are Spotify totals, not combined plays across music services.
How the Spotify totals compare
| Artist | Spotify streams | Spotify all-time rank |
|---|---|---|
| Drake | 142.4 billion | 3 |
| Kendrick Lamar | 58.3 billion | 18 |
SpotifyStats reported the rounded totals on October 8, 2026, compiling stream counts from kworb.net. Subtracting the displayed figures gives an estimated difference of 84.1 billion streams; it is not a separately reported exact count. The tracker says it collects data daily and rounds its totals to tenths of a billion, so the figures can change.
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Spotify’s own all-time ranking independently confirms the ordering: Drake was third and Kendrick Lamar eighteenth in global Spotify streams through April 2026. Spotify published ranks, not the artists’ cumulative totals, on that page.
What “streams” means in this comparison
The numbers refer to accumulated Spotify track streams, not monthly listeners and not total plays across Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or other services. The cited sources do not establish an exact all-platform comparison, so Spotify’s figures should not be extrapolated to other services.
Spotify for Artists says a song stream counts after at least 30 seconds of playback. Its artist totals include songs on which the artist is credited as a main artist or remixer, and its statistics use UTC. SpotifyStats’ headline total sums stream counts across an artist’s tracks; its table also breaks credits into lead, solo, and featured categories.
Lead, solo, and featured credits
SpotifyStats’ October 8, 2026 table gives these rounded subtotals. The figures are categories reported by the tracker, not separate totals from Spotify’s rank-only April list.
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| Artist | As lead | Solo | As feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drake | 98.2 billion | 55.4 billion | 44.2 billion |
| Kendrick Lamar | 41.7 billion | 23.9 billion | 16.6 billion |
For the headline comparison, use the tracker’s all-credit totals rather than comparing only lead or solo credits. Spotify’s own artist-total definition also includes qualifying main-artist and remixer credits.
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Sources and limits
- SpotifyStats’ most-streamed artists ranking provides the rounded October 8, 2026 totals and credit subtotals, and attributes its compiled counts to kworb.net.
- Spotify’s April 2026 all-time ranking gives the global-stream ranking positions but not cumulative artist totals.
- Spotify for Artists’ stream-count explanation describes the 30-second threshold, artist credit scope, and UTC timing.
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