Have you ever wondered who the best and most popular music artists are? Well, these are the top five music artists who have become the most well known and popular music artists.
5.Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber, being born on March 1st, 1994, has released 72 singles, 3 remix albums, and 10 promotional singles. He was first seen in a YouTube video as a 12 year old cover singer, and started to get famous around 2009 when he released his single, “One Time”. He was discovered by American record executive Scooter Braun, and signed with RBMG records in 2008. He now has eight number one hits on the US billboard and eight number one albums on the US billboard 200 charts. Not only that, but one of his songs spent 16 weeks on top of the charts!
4.The Weeknd
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known as The Weeknd, was born on February 16 1990. He has released 67 singles, 3 compilation albums, and 1 soundtrack album. In addition to those many songs, he has had five number one hits and several songs chart on the top 5 of the Hot 100. Not only that, but his hit song “Blinding Lights” became the most played song on Spotify with 3.335 billion streams.
3.Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande was born on June 26, 1993. She has released 54 singles, 1 live album, and 14 promotional singles. And of those 54 singles, 47 of them have charted on the Hot 100 and two of them, being “Thank U Next” and “7 Rings”, reached the number one spot. She also has seven songs with 1 billion + streams. She has sold 9 million albums and 63.5 million digital singles. In 2010, she was named the most streamed female artist on Spotify and Apple Music and has continued to be one of the best.
2.Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift was born on December 13, 1989. She has 36 promotional singles and over 123 songs. She first became famous by signing a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV at age 14 in 2004, becoming the youngest signing in the company’s history. Then in 2006 she signed with Big Machine Records and her song Tim McGraw made it to the Top 40. Since then, she has released 10 original studio albums and has sold about 114 million of them. She has had 9 number one songs being the female artist with the most charted songs in the United States and has continued to be very successful.
1.Drake
Drake was born on October 24, 1986. Drake first became known as an actor for the TV show “Degrassi”. Then on March 9, 2010 he released his single “Over” that was number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as being number one for the Rap Songs Chart. That song also earned a nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards. He has earned 12 number one hits and 11 number one albums with 170 million records sold worldwide. As of March 2023, Drake is the most streamed artist of all time.
