{"id":354115,"date":"2023-03-22T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=354115"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:52:53","slug":"the-weeknd-is-the-most-popular-artist-in-the-world-according-to-guinness-world-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/the-weeknd-is-the-most-popular-artist-in-the-world-according-to-guinness-world-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd is the most popular artist in the world according to Guinness World Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abel Tesfaye, artistically known as The Weeknd, has statistically become the most popular artist in the world after setting two new Guinness World Records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354106\" src=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2.webp 1900w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-973x547.webp 973w, https:\/\/highxtar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-weeknd-2-508x286.webp 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Canadian receives the Guinness title for the highest number of monthly listeners on Spotify for a male singer, with 111.6 million, also being the first artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>These figures on Spotify surpass those of artists such as Miley Cyrus, with 82.3 million monthly listeners; Shakira, with 81.7 million; Taylor Swift, with 80.3 million; and Rihanna, who reaches 78.2 million. Ed Sheeran is currently the male artist closest to The Weeknd, with 77.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the singer had already appeared in the <strong>Guinness World Records<\/strong> book, receiving the title for the album with the most streams on Spotify in 2015 and another for the most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard&#8217;s Hot 100 by a solo male artist. On top of all this, he also has the biggest song in history: <strong>&#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221;<\/strong> is the track with the most plays on Spotify, with more than 3.4 billion listens.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s two new world records for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theweeknd<\/a> as he has become the first artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spotify?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Spotify<\/a> \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2zCtVay8n\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z2zCtVay8n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guinness World Records (@GWR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWR\/status\/1637808962119806976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other music news, <a href=\"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/quattroporte-makes-way-for-rapper-easy-s-next-stage\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quattroporte gives way to the next stage of rapper Easy-S.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has statistically become the most popular artist in the world after setting two new Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":354105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[2563,2735,2264],"class_list":["post-354115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-en","tag-ana-diez-en","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-the-weeknd-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - 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