Drake was named Spotify's top-streamed artist in 2015, 2016, 2017 and is holding on to the title in 2018. He also held the top-streamed album with 'Scorpion' and claimed the title of top-streamed song with "God's Plan." Drake generated 8.2 billion streams
this year alone.
Ariana Grande was the music platform's top-streamed female artist of the year. The pop singer's album, 'Sweetner,' and hits such as "thank u, next" raked in
220 million streams. Grande was streamed a total of more than 3 billion times internationally in 2018.