Kathmandu- Ed Sheeran has hit a milestone streaming record, becoming the first artist to ever hit 100million followers on Spotify.
Ed Sheeran is now the most-followed artist on the streaming service, ahead of Ariana Grande (81.64 million), Billie Eilish (66.18m), Drake (65.40m) and Justin Bieber (63.49m). Sheeran was also the first artist to hit 50 million followers on Spotify in March of 2020, and is the most streamed artist on the platform overall – with an average of 81.20 million monthly listeners.
The achievement is the latest in a series of ongoing successes for the English artist, who is responsible for two of them the 10 biggest singles on the UK charts so far in 2022 – his own ‘Bad Habits’ at Number Four, and his Fireboy DML collaboration ‘Peru’ at Number Two.
Sheeran also recently made a surprise appearance at the Latitude festival as a guest of Snow Patroljoining the band for a cover of ‘Bad Habits’ and their own song ‘Just Say Yes’.
